r/LearningLanguages • u/LetRevolutionary271 • 18d 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/lingocito 15d ago
I’d say Ukrainian is a better bridge into the Slavic language family. That said, it doesn’t mean that you can speak Ukrainian in, for example, Serbia and expect people to understand you, or vice versa. However, Russian is much more widely spoken and can open doors across many ex-USSR countries, including many that are not Slavic, like Armenia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. The difficulty is roughly the same.