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| Ilyushin96 Trilingual Hexaglot Newbie Italy Joined 5014 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Sinhalese, English*, German*, Italian*, French, Russian Studies: Dutch, Japanese, Latvian, Mandarin | Message 1 of 5 01 April 2011 at 1:36pm | IP Logged |
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I am writing here hoping to find an opinion of someone who already deals a lot with
Russia or is Russian, since it is my aim to live and work in Russia. I am currently, very unfortunately, a very busy person, running a business and various other entrepreneurial projects - and with less and less time to dedicate to my cultural passions. I have "flirted" with 4 extra languages throughout my life (Latvian: basic, Mandarin: basic, Dutch: intermediate, Japanese: intermediate) but am not very sure which to pursue in a more thorough and active manner. Thus, I would like to chose one that is realistic given my time availability (maybe 1-2 hours a day), that can be useful in the short-term (would love to be fluent as quickly as possible), especially in doing business in Russia/from Russia. I would also start from scratch: Are Russia's minority languages useful? Tatar, Armenian, etc.? What else might be popular in Russia? I know I sound like an opportunistic business man but I am sure that once I have a bit more free time I will start making less business-minded decisions about language learning ))) Thank you for any ideas and suggestions )) P.S.: I exclude learning Spanish or Portuguese due to personal traumatic reasons. Many suggest they can be a useful addition to my language "portfolio", but... no, thanks! Edited by Ilyushin96 on 01 April 2011 at 1:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| masha_light Diglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5243 days ago 54 posts - 82 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 2 of 5 01 April 2011 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
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Well, everyone in Russia speaks Russian. =)
I think that minority languages are of no use except you have a strong desire to learn some of them. =) I'd advise you to improve your Mandarin... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Siberiano Tetraglot Senior Member Russian Federation one-giant-leap.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6521 days ago 465 posts - 696 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, ItalianC1, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Serbian | Message 3 of 5 06 April 2011 at 11:01am | IP Logged |
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Нет, от языков малых народов пользы почти нет. В России есть смылс знать английский, немецкий, китайский, возможно, турецкий. Тюркские языки (казахский, узбекский) могут пригодиться, если ты собираешься работать с гастарбайтерами. :)
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| Ilyushin96 Trilingual Hexaglot Newbie Italy Joined 5014 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Sinhalese, English*, German*, Italian*, French, Russian Studies: Dutch, Japanese, Latvian, Mandarin | Message 4 of 5 06 April 2011 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
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Спасибо Маша, спасибо Сиберяно.
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