I've been wanting to learn a new language for literary reasons

>>7520739
No. It'll be difficult. So difficult that you'll most likely give it up within a few months and move on to something else you'll never follow through with

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>>7520739

Yes, but not for the right reasons

learn German instead

>>7520748
What are the arguments for learning German over Russian?

I found myself more often translating French rather than Russian when reading Dostoevsky.

I hope you are prepared to study for at least 1h everyday this year. After that you should be able to read Dostoevsky with a dictionary at hand.

>>7520739
>for dosto

No. His prose isn't impressive at all.

Should have gone for French tbqh

>>7520739
Кpeпиcь, бpaтaн.

>>7520808
When you say it like that, it sounds quite nice.

Anyone should be able to spend an hour each day learning a new language.

But I wont.. I've tried... I'm even too lazy for 1 hour a day.

>>7520753
I don't really have any t b h

Apparently Russian isn't as difficult as it seems, but if I were to learn a new language I'd chose German because of its literature and the fact that it would be quicker to pick up

>>7520739

Yes.

Bad choice. In the time it takes to learn Russian from English you could learn French and Latin with time to spare, which incidentally is what I recommend you do.
I say don't try to tackle other writing systems, at least not on your first go.

Ahh, I too am learning Russian. I almost am proficient in Latin as well.

At first glance many a man would consider Russian a language of barbarians and slaves - and who could blame them? To the refined Englishman's mind a sentence without linguistic articles is not a sentence at all.

But there is an ever so sweet, and concise pleasure from reading a sentence in Russian. The Cyrillic alphabet, the "Right-to-the-point" feeling, and the way certain letters roll off one's tongue.

It's admirable and distinguishable at that.

even if u russian there alot words in dostoevsky or tolstoy novels| that like 100+ years old and nobody use them already

>>7520753
None, they have less contributions to Bloom's canon than English, French, Russian, and even Spanish

>>7521481
Not really, mostly outdated furniture- and clothes-related words.

>>7520739
How could this choice be wrong? Do you think they wrote in Maori or something???

>>7520753
i'd rather read german authors just as a matter of taste

but, the german language is a lot easier to pick up if you know english than russian. russian is a whole new beast

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>>7520739
Moлoдeц! What is your native language ?