Chinese

flip a coin

Pros of Russian:

- many many people here speak it, only today I met 3

- I can read it quite well already but not talk at all

- I could hike Bald and Bankrupt style through the russian speaking world

 

Cons:

- sadly, quite useless

 

Pros of Chinese:

- just thinking of learning it makes me wet because it interests me a lot

- I already know Kanji so it's probably a lot of points at Uni for a not too big amount of work

- likely to stay relevant unlike RU

 

Cons:

- subjective, but i think it sounds very ugly

- i probably won't be able to hit the tones because of the my inevitable accent and natives won't understand

Neither, just learn Spanish or Italian or Japanese or Korean if you want Asian. Russian is pointless and ugly, Chinese is super ugly but might be useful

For some reason Spanish never interested me, Italian is quite cool but I already know French quite well so it's not interesting enough.

I know Japanese and why would you ever even consider studying Korean? That's insane. It's even more useless than Russian unless you are into K-Pop.

Because I like the way the Korean characters look

Hm, I don't really support the Korena lookism of having to get plastic surgery to have a career unless you won the generic lottery. It feels very awkward to me.

I meant the Korean writing characters lol, poorly chosen image sorry

ahh, it's a shame they stopped using chinese characters though

picrel is an old korean newspaper

perhaps not thousands, but hundreds for sure

 

i used to watch a lot of chinese cartoons because i liked trying to read the subtitles that they always add

I feel like the chinese language lacks emotion because they have to care about the tones while speaking so they can't scream MOOOOOM or BLYAAAAAT

i watched your clips and it feels bland compared to other languagues

 

perhaps it is because i am used to a flow of pitch when people speak

its dont

also tones get freed up a bit in such context

 

Russian is baltoslavic satemic indoeuropean — it is closer to germanic

useless

too difficult

i mean learn arab

consider the following: learn swahili

Compromise: learn Hungarian.

I took the chYnese

 

hahaha this gave me a good laugh

 

but yeah, that's how over 90% of foreign movies are dubbed here (and to make things even funnier, it's usually the same guy every time, idk what's going to happen when he kicks the bucket)

Dubs are only good if they come with subs as well

What are you going to do when you couldn't understand a word?

 

For example almost all movies are dubbed in German but I don't watch them because if I can't understand a new word, I can't learn it either.

There are many "Doku"s and "Reportage"s on youtube from the German national or state TV with subtitles but they are boring as hell and I can't get myself to watch them either

but u remember context of the word and once u meet it more often then u get interested

Chinese -- Zomg teh Qing empire

 

Russian -- quite niche

 

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also y u no study Korean?

 

 

b l e a t

So, OP, what was yer choice

 

 

t. ries to be supportive of ether choices

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ebin

 

 

a decent choice for business writting

 

 

Fun fact: despite the unified spelling, Chinese still have a vast amount of dialects and accents.

wypierdalaj

jak ci strzelę klapsa na dziąsło to się zesrasz

Russki pidor

lol butthurt

native chinks don't speak chinese with correct tonality anyway

t. knower

Pidoras

 

Lol what, electricity restored alredy?

you have internet access in the trenches?

 

Its a military secret~

 

Are you studying dead languages?

Serious answer study Russian it's a beautiful language and once you forcefeed yourself the vocabulary the grammar comes naturally. Chinese is a tonal language which, well, humans don't communicate through squeaks and squeals. удачи.

just whisper it into my ear so no one overhears

did you know that original proto-indo-european was a tonal language as well?

as was ancient greek, and baltic and scandinavian languages still are (tho I believe scandinavian languages lost and redeveloped tones)