Is it better to learn French or German?

Both are good and useful. It's a good idea to take into account your future career plans and direction of employment.

French is not a language that can be taught on your own, especially when you are just starting out. Many of the ways of thinking and expressing yourself are completely different from Chinese, and it is very easy for students to pronounce words incorrectly in the early stages of a language without a teacher to guide them and correct them. In French, for example, the concepts of verb conjugation, the placement of adjectives after nouns, and the need to match gender and number are not found in Chinese, nor in English, which is most people's first foreign language.

That's why I recommend that beginners study with a professional teacher. It's not that I don't support self-study of French, but I don't support self-study of French from scratch. As a teacher, I usually meet a lot of self-study for a period of time and eventually come to our organization to take classes, self-study is often a few weeks have not been able to get around the pronunciation of the French language problems, but our teachers take the class, a few lessons can help students to clear up. After a few months of study, they are able to communicate with each other on a daily basis. Once the student has mastered the logic of the language, it is necessary to strengthen the vocabulary and consolidate the practice, then the teacher's role becomes less important, and the student needs to be more active. It is true that there are God people who can learn on their own and get B2 in a short time, but it is very, very rare.