I'm an English-speaking college student, and I want to know which language would be easier for me to learn? I know Russian is spoken with the throat, rather than the tongue and lips, and that Japanese verbs and parts of speech can be VERY confusing, and despite these, I've pursued some basics in both languages. I'm on the fence between the two of them, and just want to know which one I might have an easier time with.

i want to become a linguist in russian but im unsure if alot of people speak the language and if it would be a popular language to work with in the U.S. i know russia is a big country but so is china (population-wise) which has many languages so again would this be a good language to work with?

i am very interested in becoming fluent in many languages.
i am only in high school , and have taken 5 levels of spanish, and 2 of french, however i have met some natives of russia and their culture and language really interests me, so i would like to learn russian, and later in college, german.
is there a particular program, book, anything that would be good to learn russian?
of course i could ask my russian co workers how to say certain phrases,or if i have specific questions, but i want to learn the language! how should i start?

I know some other languages but not much and I don't remember most of the stuff I learned back in hs. i took spanish in hs. should I try to learn french fluently instead?
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I want to learn it, but I have no idea where to start. I tried learning the alphabet, and WOW. Seems really hard.
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I speak english and korean. german was a piece of cake for me, and I'm still learning french in school. So.....is russian similar to ANY of these languages?

If you learned russian, how did you do it? Share your secret!

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I can already speak 4 languages and i want to learn one more. I really want to learn either russian or portuguese. Portuguese is a really beautiful language and brazil and portugal are two very beautiful countries with lively cultures. I also know that portuguese would be a lot easier than russian. Russia is not as beautiful a country, but the russian culture is still fascinating as well as russian history and literature. Can you help me decide which language I should choose.

Hi, my name is Karolina and i'm polish.
My relatives friends are russian and whenever they speak russian, some of the words sound polish.
are these languages alike?

I've recently become interested in learning the russian language. The only problem is that I've no idea which organisations/schools offer russian as a foreign language, so right now I'm trying to teach myself using internet and audio clips. I really want a tutor to teach me the language properly in person so that I'll be able to learn it faster instead of trying to figure out how the language and various variations to pronounciations/sentence structures work on my own. The 3rd language centres over here don't offer russian as a foreign language, and it's really hard to find russians in singapore. I'm currently in the music conservatory at NUS, and I only know 2 russian teachers of mine. But it's kind of hard to ask them for proper russian lessons in the conservatory when my timetable is getting fuller by the semesters. Plus they aren't trained in teaching languages.

Does anyone know where I can go for proper russian lessons, not counting internet, books or going to russia?

I know the languages are different but still...I wondered.

i think it would be better to learn portuguese because it will help ALOT with brazillian portuguese but the russian language looks sooooo hard to learn! if im going to learn two languages with a language in writing im not familiar that will be hard wont it!?
i already speak french and english but is it possible in a lifetime i can learn both languages?

I was surprised to read on some forum dedicated to Russian as foreign language talks about how ppl want to learn it, how beautiful it is. I think it's a challenge cause Russian is or thought to be one of the hardest languages.

I would like to find places where I could learn both of these languages.

I am making T-shirts and I needed the translations. Also, if you know any other languages with the translation then that would be appreciated also.

My friend's birthday is coming up and he studies English, Russian and German so I figured I'd write Happy Birthday in those 3 languages on his card.

Obviously, the English isn't a problem but how do you write "Happy Birthday" in German and Russian? Please don't give me any insults in hope that I'll include them in the card! Thanks!

I love languages. I learnt english and spanish by myself and now I would love to learn russian

I was wondering what other languages are similar to russian or could be easily picked up due to fact that you could speak russian (e.g. german-dutch, croatian-serbian). Thanks!

I've been wondering this for years, Polish is easy, but Russian takes tongue and throat work. Chinese is tonal, writing system is difficult, the pronunciation though is somewhat easy, but thats my opinion. Do you agree that Russian is the hardest language. I'm asking those who have experiences with languages or regular people who think they can answer this question.

How closely are the two languages related? I want to speak ukrainian but it seems like the training to speak russian is easier and more available

I know this is a random question but I was listening to a song that was russian and I've heard that Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn. So I was wondering what made it so unique that it became one of the harder languages and I was thinking most languages originated from something and changed from region to region so I was wondering where it originated from.

Does anyone know where Russian language originated from and why its so hard to learn?