i am Chinese native speaker but i can tell you why i want to learn English, because i think it is useful and i like it!

you should learn Japanese,because when you visit China people here are able to speak English which you can understand easily. And Chinese people are very friendly. when you go to Japan you would be confused by there English pronounciation, so you have to learn some Japanese

在friends 他们用了很多次的 so close，表示差一点就得到什么，差一点就怎么怎么样。。。 所以 so close应该也可以用来表示差一点，不过中文里面的差一点的意思很多，不同场合下的翻译不同，前面很多人说 almost应该也可以。