Should I learn French or Russian? I have no practical reason

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>>7581578
things to consider

1. Are you planning to ever hold a job there, do a lot of traveling there, or just live there?
2. Are you planning to get a wifey from there?
3. Are either relevant to your career or lifegoals
4. Which has literature that you enjoy more?

>>7581584
I have no real reason to do either lol

>>7581588
Strawberries and linen tbqh familia
Source: She is my gf

If you are generically interested in literature or philosophy or the humanities, German and French are (arguably) tied for the most economical, with German edging French out quite a bit (IMHO) unless you have specific reasons to learn French. Russian is cool but very niche by comparison. Don't learn it unless you have a specific reason - economic, family, or you know for sure you love Russian lit. And I don't mean you have some vague idea that you like it. You will seriously regret wasting time learning a fairly difficult language if you didn't commit to it going in.

>>7581588
Girls don't shit you fucking idiot.

>>7581578
>I read have random paragraphs of french in them(Why do Russians do this?).
Russian nobility and upper classes were huge francophiles and even spoke French which each other often I believe.

The French are pretty much the world's benchmark for sophistication.

>>7581597
Were*

>>7581597
>The French are pretty much the world's benchmark for sophistication.
Except Albert "Albear Kaymoo" Camus, the biggest hack in all literature came from there

>e I read have random paragraphs of french in them(Why do Russians do this?).

Russia before Peter (up to early 18th) had enclaves of West Euros for various reasons, mostly economic, but for the most part it was still very distinct culturally. Peter the Great was raised partly in those enclaves and hung out in them a lot and he was also a batshit insane megalomaniac. When he came to power he forcibly "Europeanised" Russia, or began a process or trend of Europeanisation, or rent "authentic Russia" in half and awkwardly sewed a stillborn dream of Europeanisation in its chest, depending on who you ask. The Imperial Russia of Peter and his successors became Europhile but especially Francophile as Louis XIV's France was the dominant high culture of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Wealthy, educated Russians probably would have spoken French a lot better than they spoke Russian in a lot of cases.

French is literally the original meme language

>>7581606
Technically he's from Algeria

>>7581578
No.

French will definitely be harder if your native language is English
Even though russian has a different alphabet it is very rudimentary , flexible, and easy to learn, whereas french has a lot of very difficult grammatical rules

>>7581797
Russian might be seen as easy language to learn, I don't think it is. You would shoot yourself trying to learn all these rules to form participals, putting commas correctly, etc, if you had to do so, of course.

I want to learn Welsh and Irish even though doing so is a waste of valuable reddit time

>>7581853
>>7581578
Life itself is just one BIG waste of time my friends
t. Existentialist nihilist

>>7581597
The French are superficially sophisticated. They are Audrey Hepburn, or a peacock.

>>7581588
This is what I'd call true patrician taste, it's an unusual interest only reserved for the most noble in societies.

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>>7581887
>Audrey Hepburn
the fuck did you just say about my waifu?
Apologize now, or pay the price later

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>>7581578
>language requires you to conjugate the noun when a verb acts on it
Into the dustbin it goes

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>>7581578
french desu senpai

>>7581593
>Neither will get you a girlfriend you kissless virgin.
w-what?

Language importance order (for patricians:

1. English
2. French
3. German
4. Russian
5. Old Greek
6. Latin
7. Hebrew
8. Arabic
9. Japanese
10. All the other pleb languages

>>7581903

The whatnow to the what? Also Evola did know quite a few languages

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>>7582022
>Italian is a pleb language

>>7582031

It's like French or Latin, except it requires you to sound like a homosexual.

>>7582039
>Italian makes you sound like a homosexual
>not French with those sperm-gargling Rs

>>7582053

Okay you have a point French is also pretty gay. But at least it sounds sophisticated. Italians sound like they're gay AND stupid.

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>>7581578
If you're asking that question, then you will pick one, but you will never learn either.

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>>7582058
>Italians sound like they're gay AND stupid.

>>7581578
French

>>7581578

>I was thinking french because even the Russian to English translations of literature I read have random paragraphs of french in them(Why do Russians do this?).

You really put no thought into this, did you?

>>7581597

>The French are pretty much the world's benchmark for sophistication.

Most of the high courts of Northern Europe spoke German. Personally I consider posh british infinitely superior to french, as I associate the french language with short-statured and heavily hirsute men eating cheese and smoking cigarettes.

>>7582074

>>eating cheese and smoking cigarettes

>implying this is bad

>>7582112
>not being a vegan
>not living clean
>having nasty cigarette breath
Yeah, your gunna have to leave

>>7582022
Why do you place Greek above Latin. I mean I would agree from a purely literary standpoint, but most would argue Latin has influenced more people.

>>7582150
Troll post or not, this is why French "sophistication" is so non substantive. It is glorified naiveté, the European equivalent to "muh fredum" in the American South.

>>7582022
Does anyone know where I can find a list of languages by number of original books published in that language?

French is more popular, easier, and gets you pussy.

Russian is harder, has better literature, sounds cool.

Answer: Learn both.

>>7584579
Not hard at all. I'm pretty proficient after a month or so of half-hearted practice.

Этo нe cлoжнo, aнoн.

>>7581797
Yeah but Russian has cases and besides that French is easier for Romance language speakers and has more vocabulary in common with English and other Romance languages.

Maybe OP is an uncultured swine and only knows English but if he goes for French, it will be easier and he will have a leg up on Italian, Spanish and Latin.