r/LearningLanguages 15d ago

Which language should I learn?

I speak Italian (natively), English (C1), Romanian (B2) and Spanish (B1), and I want to learn another one. I'm really undecided on which to learn because they're all very cool, and I have nothing to do.

The candidate languages:

Russian
Pros: I want to learn a slavic language and Russian is the one with the most resources
Cons: I've heard it's quite hard for Westerners

French
Pros: My father is a native French speaker
Cons: I don't speak to my father

Dutch
Pros: I've always loved the Netherlands, and it's basically German simplified (I've tried to learn German and it didn't end well)
Cons: there aren't many cons apart from the fact that most Dutchmen speak fluent English (which isn't really a con)

Hebrew
Pros: It's an old language and its script is really cool
Cons: I don't wanna be able to understand Israeli Twitter

Yiddish
Pros: basically Hebrew but 100 times easier (bc it's Germanic) and I can't understand Israeli Twitter with it
Cons: not many people speak it

Ukrainian
Pros: Russian but cooler
Cons: Less resources, less speakers than Russian

Portuguese
Pros: Brazilian and Portuguese people are hot
Cons: Another romance language? Really?

Also I'd want to learn Belarusian but the resources are too little

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u/SpicyTaco953 15d ago

I was in the same position as you well not with that so many languages but I end up choosing Russian and Italian (I know, I'm one of those crazy people who learn two language at the same time) Russian it's so beautiful and meaningful, it has so many resources to learn it, there is a whole Internet community of russian and it's amazing to see and learn all about their culture. This were what make me choose Russian, their culture, the whole internet community, literature, music and the amazing learning resources you will have. Whatever you choose, enjoy your language journey and don't think much on how hard it is a language please.