Say someone was studying linguistics at university and was looking

>>33640965
>Say someone WERE studying linguistics at university and WERE looking into doing contract work for the government or for an intelligence service (*sentence fragment, remove period and add comma*), which language do you reckon would be ideal to know if you can only pick one?
English

>>33640965
arabic

>>33640965
>Farsi
What about Pashto?

>>33640985
its more of a dialect

>>33640965
Mandarin sucks, don't pick that one.

>>33640979
Good idea.

>>33641074
Since China will rule the world in a few years I'd pick mandarin.

Russian grammar ain't easy, but the alphabet is a walk in the park.

More importantly, Russia is a fun and cheap country, and Russian people are fun and friendly. You can drink all the alcohol and eat all the pork you like without worrying about prison or whether or not it was actually a kitty.

Any Slav language becomes easy as piss to learn. The only downside is that you may get sick of hearing Russians joke about how [insert Slav language here] is only an accent. Or you might get caught up in the Democrats' WitchHunts 2.0

>>33641781
>Russian grammar ain't easy
Not sure about what's used in official circles but street Russian grammar is very easy.
>take what looks right and discard half the words
>swear and belch at every opportunity. Ideally say nothing but swear words (in Cyrillic languages they're simultaneously a noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, and adjective) and belch between every single one
>bonus points if you can slur every syllable like you're fall-down drunk

>>33640965
depends, what color are you

>>33642106
White.

>>33640979
>WERE
But that's fucking wrong, you mongo.

>>33641777
1982 checking in, actually Japan will, learn Japanese

>>33642488
Russian. You don't want to be the one white guy in the Middle East, and the chinks are all rayciss.

Also, if you speak chingchong and work in intel, you will find yourself in Africa quite frequently. Do you want AIDS? Because that's how you get AIDS.