Well, I like Dutch because it's a Germanic language just like English, German, Afrikaans, It's not like any of the harder languages like arabic, filipino, mandarin chinese, etc
yea as a chinese (specifically cantonese) dude myself, chinese absolutely SUCKS and I prefer romance languages like french, italian, portugese more because they're wayyyy easier and also are very beautiful languages
btw if u actually want to progress faster DONT use duolingo, it creates an illusion of progress through gamification, instead i use youtube translated subtitles, google translate, and sometimes Google gemini when I don't understand a grammatical concept