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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges don't care, but you're an idiot if you take a language that isn't Spanish.[/quote]

My kids who took Russian certainly aren't idiots.  Maybe you're talking about yourself?[/quote]

A lot of good that’s gonna do them since Americans can’t even travel to Russia. [/quote]

DP but you realize that there are countries other than Russia where Russian is spoken, right? As well as Russian speakers in non-Russian speaking countries. And there are books, movies, TV shows, etc. in Russian.[/quote]

Sure, but the large majority of native speakers are Russian, and there are more than three times as many native Spanish speakers as Russian speakers — the majority of whomlive on our hemisphere and we’re allowed to visit their countries. Of course, whether they’re allowed to visit ours anymore is an open question.[/quote]

But this is just generic thinking. Are you interested in Russian literature, history, traveling to Eastern Europe or Central Asia (even where not native, it is still the lingua franca in many places) or working in intel/national security? Then you should definitely learn Russian. If not, then you shouldn’t.

If you want to travel in the Western Hemisphere or live in an area with lots of Spanish speakers and want to talk to them in Spanish, learn Spanish. If you don’t want to do this, then don’t.

They aren’t necessarily interchangeable. But a certainty is that learning a language you don’t really have interest in because it seems the most “practical” will likely result in failure.[/quote]

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