Language learning

>>9718118
Spanish is easier from the perspective of an English speaker. Russian literature is probably better, although you'd need to know a bit of pre-reform Russian

>>9718118
As an English speaker, Russian will be much much easier for you to learn than Spanish.

>>9718126
>>9718128

2 answers both hold an opposite opinion
this is somewhat unsatisfying

>>9718118
German desu

>>9718147
Spanish has no case system, a healthy overlap of vocabulary with English, and uses the Latin alphabet.

>>9718148
Well that is my mothertongue

>>9718153
Ah very nice, you should learn Russian then.

French then Russian

Learn russian. I recommed you to read this text of Misha Lapkin http://www.proza.ru/2017/07/03/964
He's really great author

>>9718176
i know some french and i detest it.

>>9718118
Spanish, if you work hard at it you'll be reading Borges in a year. Spanish is easy as fuck. Their literature is great too, and better than Russian lit. You can learn both, but if you're monolingual then Spanish is the easiest way to get your feet wet in foreign languages.

>>9718128
What the fuck? Are you a retard or just an Ivan?

>>9718176
>le French xD
French is a reddit language

Spanish is probably the ugliest language of the world. I always found it weird its suppose to be romantic. It sounds...it sorta just sounds like dirt coming out of someones mouth

>>9718118
Spanish should be easier for an English speaker. With an equal interest in both Russian and Spanish I would go for the latter. Spanish is probably considered to be more beautiful as well. Russian has a reputation of being a harsh sounding language.

Bear in mind that you can't really read the original Don Quixote if you learn modern Spanish.
>>9718128
Don't listen to this vatnik.
>>9718200
Don't listen to this fucking idiot either.

>>9718204
t. only experience with Spanish is hearing immigrant spics on the bad side of town

>>9718200
>Implying english isn't the one and only Reddit language

>>9718128

are you retaredededededed

>>9718128
I am Ivan and can confirm this is true. I'm super shit at Spanish. I can only understand it

>>9718204
>>9718225
you can make spanish sound like anything and it's still easy to understand between each different dialect

- if you want something dry learn to speak spanish from spain
- if you want something a bit more musical learn mexican
- if you want to make it sound like italian learn argentinian
- if you want to be a latin lover learn cuban
- if you want to sound retarded learn spanish from chile
- ...

it's all written the same but sounds different

Alle sollen deutsch lernen, um ehrlich zu sein.

>>9718128
This. I don't know what these other fools are on about.

>>9718118
Once you learn even one language, reading translations feels like chewing on regurgitated puke. Remain blissfully ignorant while you can.

>>9718118
If you want to chose between those two I'd recommend spanish (russian is fucking hard, I tried learning it once but gave up eventually, with romanic languages you make much quicker progress)

>>9718311
Kann ich schon.

>>9718118
Near the end of my highschool a while back I decided to try in my Spanish classes and push myself.
A while later I went on Holiday to Spain, I could speak to locals, understand them and read relatively easily. I was surprised, in around 6-9 months I was pretty good.
But jesus christ, its a pig of a language. I stopped practicing and have since forgotten it. It sounds fucking horrible, Spain is relatively irrelevant sure its the biggest tourist destination for brits, but on the world stage its laughably fucked. Its economy is shit, Catalonia wants a referendum and I wouldnt be surprised if the Basque Country wanted one too. Its pretty unstable.
Russian is unbelievably hard, its rock solid and I tried to learn that after Spanish. But its usefull, really usefull.
Russian is your best bet, but if your learning it as your second language you`ll have a hard time. It would be quicker over all to learn an easier 2nd one then try for Russian.

>>9718357
I speak german and english very well,
I learned some arabic and some french. so it is not my second language.

>>9718118
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I decided to learn spanish first and learn russian in a year or two.

Thanks for your help lit

>>9718554
You're making a big mistake Komrade. Russian is far easier. Especially pronunciation.

>>9718128

Are there Romanized version of Russian language works?

Any Icelandfags here? What is the GOAT book for a beginner to read Icelandic?

>>9718565
Yes of course, 'g' is pronounced 'v' in some contexts. This is a minimal but good example.

>>9718225
>t.
this needs to go away so bad

>>9718633
Lovestar

>>9718565
what? pronouncing spanish is trivial, letters sound always the same