What language should I learn ?

[Rangelov]

Hi everyone,

I have asked a couple of tech questions but this time my question belongs in the "Off Topic" area. 

I will have a lot of free time when I am done with my exams and I want to learn a new language. At this time I know two foreign languages (English and German/Deutsch). 

And now to the question:

Should I learn Italian or Russian ? I just want your opinions.Thanks : ).

[beebskadoo]

Italian, because it's cooler.

[soaringchicken]

Chinese is definitely helpful in business context, but C++ is definitely a cool language :) :) :) heheheheheh

[MLG Doge]

Italian, imagine walking up to the girls and saying they're beautiful....

 

 

They'd be on there knees

[Speedyv]

Spanish would be more useful than both but italian seems like a cooler romantic language.

[sphexator]

Ruby

[Albatross]

Out of the ones you listed, Russian!

[MuffinTopMike]

Russian, its really hard to learn but it would so cool to know.

[Shaqo_Wyn]

Hi everyone,

I have asked a couple of tech questions but this time my question belongs in the "Off Topic" area. 

I will have a lot of free time when I am done with my exams and I want to learn a new language. At this time I know two foreign languages (English and German/Deutsch). 

And now to the question:

Should I learn Italian or Russian ? I just want your opinions.Thanks : ).

 

Out of those two, Russian. Alternatively you could learn the second most important language after English which is Spanish. Way more practical to know Spanish.

[-TesseracT-]

Master English.

[Nineshadow]

You're Bulgarian so definitely Russian.They have a lot of common vocabulary.

 

Italian would be harder for you to learn. Because I live in Romania, Italian is almost like speaking my own language. They are very very veeery much alike.

[KemoKa]

Japanese or Chinese are extremely helpful languages to learn in business settings, especially in computer and heavy industries like steel or semiconductors.

I took Japanese for four years and continued it here in Japan, and I love it. I have a friend who just came back from a 2-year stint in Taiwan, and he's picking up Japanese a little bit just from chatting with me over SMS. The characters more often than not have the same exact meaning. All Japanese does is change the pronunciations and add conjunctions. It's really cool. I might try going the other way at some point, just to learn another language. Learning languages is fun, just so long as you do it in a way that isn't a contemporary language course, because I learned more Japanese in the first month here than in four years of taking formal classes in high school, with a Japanese Japanese teacher.

 

most people are daunted by the amount of characters, but it's not that hard once you get used to learning how they work.

Asian languages for me are just far, far more interesting than the Romantic languages and even Germanic or Slavic languages, because I will actually be able to use the Japanese I learn now in my career years and years down the road. I don't want to learn spanish because I have literally zero interest in going to those countries. Technological advances are going to start happening the most in China, Japan and Taiwan, as they have been doing for the past four decades. China is going to just explode in the next few years, and the people who can speak Chinese will be very, very successful indeed.

So, not good news for the average American.

[MoDtEc]

out of these russian

spanish is cool too. it is spoken in many places you culd travel to

hitting on girls in mexico is much easier in spanish, but pshhht

 

 

[Nup]

Out of the two i would say Italian, not only is it an awesome language it'll give you a base in latin(ish) and with it you'll be able to pick up some French and Spanish when listening

[Camul]

Polish, because I want to know how to speak it. Although if it is only out of those two then Italian I guess. I'd much rather go down on a guy who speaks Italian than Russian.

[OhNoesItsDobby]

I've always wanted to learn Italian, too. Every word spoken just seems to flow into the next, it sounds so good.

[Nup]

I've always wanted to learn Italian, too. Every word spoken just seems to flow into the next, it sounds so good.

It is a very musical language alright  

[shiftberry]

Arabic, I would say.

[Ruostunut kokis]

Out of those two, I'd recommend Russian. IMO it's more useful (especially considering your location, and even more so in the business front). However there are more useful languages than those two, but pick whatever feels interesting to you. One possibility could also be improving your English (and I'm not saying it's bad, not at all) to a master's level (like @-TesseracT- suggested), that can also open a lot of doors for you.

 

Another possibility could be coding: if you're into computers (especially software-wise), you could start to learn programming. It can come in useful later in life, like developing mobile apps and such. This isn't limited to just mobile apps, but seeing a lot of software market is going mobile, that can become useful in work.

 

If you're only interested in those two languages (Russian and Italian), I understand. Even if you know you wouldn't be using a language later in life, who knows what will happen in the future? Like I have zero motivation learning Swedish in high school, but instead I use that time in classes to learn Japanese online, even though I probably won't be ever using that language in my life, who knows? Future is unpredictable. At least better for me to learn something even remotely useful than just sit in class and do nothing useful.

[as96]

Go in alphabetical order 

[DigitalHermit]

I suggest learning German, Japanese or Mandarin if you want something that's useful...

 

or learn Filipino (Tagalog) for the heck of it...

[Ruostunut kokis]

I suggest learning German, Japanese or Mandarin if you want something that's useful...

 

or learn Filipino (Tagalog) for the heck of it...

German is also a good one. And considering the OP's location (again), in case jobs get scarce, and if you could speak German well, finding a job will prove to be much smaller issue (Seeing Bulgaria is part of EU, so you can even work abroad without needing other legal documents than just a valid ID), since there are over 100 million native German speakers, and it's known in almost half of Europe, so yeah... Definitely not a useless language. Not necessary to know, but knowing it can help in the future.

[Shroomster]

Russian definitely.

[Rangelov]

German is also a good one. And considering the OP's location (again), in case jobs get scarce, and if you could speak German well, finding a job will prove to be much smaller issue (Seeing Bulgaria is part of EU, so you can even work abroad without needing other legal documents than just a valid ID), since there are over 100 million native German speakers, and it's known in almost half of Europe, so yeah... Definitely not a useless language. Not necessary to know, but knowing it can help in the future.

 

I suggest learning German, Japanese or Mandarin if you want something that's useful...

 

or learn Filipino (Tagalog) for the heck of it...

FYI I said in a the main post that I do indeed know German. 

 

I do know there are much more practical languages to learn (Spanish, Chinese and so on). However I am going with Italian because I am more interested in learning Italian than any other language.

 

Thanks for the great responses that all you guys and girls provided. : )

[Dive5885]

FYI I said in a the main post that I do indeed know German. 

 

I do know there are much more practical languages to learn (Spanish, Chinese and so on). However I am going with Italian because I am more interested in learning Italian than any other language.

 

Thanks for the great responses that all you guys and girls provided. : )

You should go and try to learn Bosnian..

 

It would be interesting!