I guess so, but not by far. Russian has a few more speakers but Japanese could be more useful at times; Japanese people barely speak English, unlike Russians.
That's great. Yea, I definitely assume that Russian will be easier. But should I learn it first because of that? Let's say I start Russian one year after I started Japanese. By the point when I'm one year into Russian, I'll already be two years into the harder language, Japanese. If I start with Russian, from this point in time it will take longer until I've fully mastered both languages, but in return I'll be a lot better at Russian at a particular point in time from now.
German is my mother tongue (well, technically Swiss-German is a separate language but, to give you an idea, I was basically fluent in standard German by the time I entered primary school), my English is flawless, in my region of Switzerland you start to learn French in school in fifth grade, though I was terrible at it until I picked it up myself. I am now at a level where I understand what's going on in a TV-show if subtitles are activated and I can understand texts quite well without a dictionary. I also taught myself Spanish to a similar level but I'm still less experienced with that language. And lastly, I taught myself Portuguese to almost the level as Spanish because it's so easy to learn when you know French and Spanish.
I imagine, english translators gotta be a lot rarer there than in our countries.
hell yea boyo
Had Latin in school for two years, forgot everything though lol. I'm kind of interested in both cultures and I think I could spark my interest a bit more if I had a reason to. I'm also not really a huge anime watcher tbh.
It's on my (rather ambitious) list, but it's gotta wait for a bit
hindi has 341 MILLION SPEAKERS
One advantage in learning Japanese I can think of is that you’ll get more opportunities in socialmaxxing: parties, expos, anime festivals etc, where you can meet lots of weeks (there are such events regularly in my area). Whether it’ll help you get sex is another question.
You're a usefulness over everything guy huh? My Spanish is quite good already and it's improving day by day.
mirin, my spanish is decent but it’s really embarrassing that English is the only language I’m fluent in. Now would be the perfect time for me to either work on mastering spanish or learn a new language
Ah I'm not studying languages with the hope of it helping me to sex. I think I'd manage with the languages I have now
It indeed is the perfect the time for so much right now ngl. Now that you mention it, the Japanese do have quite an interesting culture. But I don't know if that's enough motivation for me to learn all the kanji (the chinese symbols).
You mean in terms of difficulty, or something else? What languages do you speak?
English, Arabic, Icelandic, French and im trying to learn Korean. I know that Spanish in terms of difficulty isn't that hard but im still not sure.never checked it out ngl.
A lot of words are the same in English and Spanish, as you've probably heard. About the same ones that you also have in French. The grammar might be a bit unaccustomed at first, but it's not really complicated, at least compared to other languages. Pronunciation isn't hard either but that's never really a problem once you're 2-3 months into the language, is it? Which one's your native tongue?
Like I said, I'm gonna learn both languages either way, so difficulty doesn't play much of a role here.
Icelandic. But my grandfather was Morrocan so i picked up Arabic from him.
OP don't learn Japanese if you want to watch anime.
Like you already said, Russian and Japanese are not unpopular. As for their apparently rapidly dying population, I don't think that will be much of an issue within my lifetime. A language can never be too hard. Japanese might take a little longer but I'm very confident that it will be doable. And, like I said, I'm onto Spanish.
Anime is definitely not my motivation.
I missed this response. The problem with learning both languages is that I kind of already am learning 3 at the moment lol. My Spanish, my French and my Portuguese all definitely still need improvement. One additional one should be doable though, especially if I'm doing as little for my french as I am now, due to an unfortunate lack of motivation. Are you more of a "one week this language, one week the other" guy then? I've always thought of simply studying each language every day being the best strategy. My brain seems to be able to handle the constant alternation.
Kek, I've had it with inel traits. Nobody of my friend group suspects I'm anything even close to an incel.
I don't really know what to do once I get to a rather advanced stage, like I am with my French, my Spanish and soon with my Portuguese. I'm just watching Netflix series because I don't know any better.
Well I guess it works if you do it consistently, I should put more time into it.
