Japanese and Mandarin, English and German

留学生	留学生
可爱	可愛い
大学	大学
年	年
一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十	一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九、十
家	家
介绍	紹介
医院	病院

Knowing how to write in Japanese definitely helps with learning how to write in Mandarin (a Chinese [Sinitic]  language). I think you can understand why if you look at the table above.
How these words are spoken; however, is totally different from the way they are written. The spoken words are not that similar at all.

The table below is of English and German. These words look more different compared to the Japanese and Mandarin words, but sound much more similar. It's kind of ironic!

Learn	lernen
School	Schule
Friend	freund
music	musik
wonderful	Wunderbar
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday	Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag
Blue	Blau