Mandarin Impression

Well, I've found out how to rekindle my interest in Japanese language. Study Mandarin. God Fuckin Damn is this shit weird. Japanese has like, what, one, maybe two, sounds that differ from english? Mandarin is all over the map. And tones! holy shit tones! My TA was ragging on Japanese, saying its so damn hard cause of the verb forms and formality aspects. Fuck that, Japanese is straight, 5 vowels, no variants, systematic consonants, no tone. I can't make a rising tone to save my life...it's only day one...it should get easier right?