ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4696 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 65 of 68 18 June 2012 at 9:25am | IP Logged |
I've only just stumbled upon this thread, but I'm glad since it is so interesting. My main reason for
learning Russian is for a specific job opportunity.I'll know by next spring if I can get it or not.if not,
the effort required to maintain or sustain whatever level Russian I get to by then may not be worth it
to me. I love reading and the main opportunity cost for me in my studies so far has been Russian
study time replacing personal reading for pleasure time. If I don't get this specific job, Spanish would
be more useful for where I live and reading (English) would be more fulfilling personally. Time will tell
:) though I must say I do realize I'm quite fortunate that, as a native English speaker, the majority of
the world is quite accessible to me regardless of my effort to learn another language
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Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5033 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese
| Message 66 of 68 19 June 2012 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
English is the second most important language. (One's native tongue is the most important for one.)
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6582 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 67 of 68 19 June 2012 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
I voted for "Chinese". Spanish is useful in Latin America...and in Latin Europe if I may say so :D
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Travod Newbie United States Joined 4571 days ago 17 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese
| Message 68 of 68 19 June 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
I like that person's post about being sad that English is the most important language. As a native
English speaker.
Language-betrayer? It's like everyone here wants English to die out so they can show off other
languages.
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