Thread 214197301

What language should I learn that is future-proof and not useless?
Between Russian and Spanish? I heard Spanish has so many dialects that even if I learn it, people in Argentina or Mexico wouldn’t understand me.
For context: I’m fluent in English and Mandarin, and I understand a bit of Indonesian and Cantonese.
So is Russian the better choice, since I’m already fluent in Mandarin?

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>>214197301 (OP)
Unironically german and russian

>>214197301 (OP)
Spanish or German.

What the hell is Russian useful for? people in Eastern Europe don't speak it as a second language anymore

>>214197352
moldova? transnistria? belarus?

>>214197352
>What the hell is Russian useful for
language exchange with ice princesses. It hurts me to see how many wants to learn italian and i dont have an excuse to talk to them

>>214197301 (OP)
Spanish has accents which differ slightly from each other but it's not like Arabic where the different "dialects" are actually languages of varying mutual intelligibility. Caribbean Spanish and Chilean Spanish are a little hard to understand but it's not that bad and it doesn't take too long to become familiar with them.

>>214197498
what do you think of learning spanish castilian?

>>214197301 (OP)
Indian

Hindi and Tamil sir so we can converse with out Indian masters when we deliver their food

>>214197516
It's a good base, and way more neutral than any of their latinamerican counterparts.

>>214197301 (OP)
You should learn Belarusian.

There's only one language of future

>>214197301 (OP)
none is future-proof. humanity will be extinct by 2050.

>>214197301 (OP)
>I heard Spanish has so many dialects that even if I learn it, people in Argentina or Mexico wouldn’t understand me.
Unless they're knuckle draggers from the deep countryside (we got those too in Spain) who can't tone down their accent, you'll be understood and they'll understand you. In formal writing they're exactly the same to the point where I was once reading an official document and was very confused about the agencies mentioned until I noticed that I had no reason whatsoever to know them because it was a pdf from the government of Argentina. Oops.
Anyway, living in SG you have to give some thought as to whether you want to learn Mexican Spanish (the dominant variant in Latin America) or Spanish from Spain (extremely small compared to the others, but is used in the EU/Schengen).
Spanish World Singapore has accreditation from the Cervantes Institute. Go ham.
Also Russian is hard as fuck in absolute and relative terms compared to Spanish but there's definitely a niche to learn it, much like some Western guys learn Chinese to act as liasions. Probably more relevant to you if you want to stay in Singapore.
Up to you.

>>214197301 (OP)
spanish 100%, ex russia's colonies literally ditching russian language, and non-russian russian speakers like older aged estonians or poles will literally get mad at you for speaking it, In Caucausus, Central asia, Russian get slowly pushed out aswell.

>>214197443
how often do you plan to visit all of these?

>>214197301 (OP)
>I’m fluent in English and Mandarin
why would you need anything else? you can literally talk to everyone in the world (but Nips) with this set

>>214197352
kek seething hohol. everybody speaks russian there