Russia seems like a pretty comfy country desu. I'd love to visit.
> by that logic people should learn Portuguese because 1. Brasil speaks it and 2. they are poor at English and 3 brasil have more population than russia. Portuguese wouldn't be a bad language to learn. But they speak significantly more English than Eastern Euros.
>did you know that japan almost has the same number of people as russia? But far fewer speakers. No one outside of Japan speaks Japanese.
>and USA has twice the number of people in russia. And no one is claiming that Russian is a more useful language to know than English.
John Green
just saying that russia has a surprisingly low amount of people
Tyler Johnson
If number of people was all that mattered then we should all be learning Mandarin and Hindi. Yet those languages are useless for anyone who isn't moving to China or India.
Logan Taylor
i was just saying
Juan Peterson
Russian was also often picked as a second language in second world countries (much less so nowadays) and if you are into visiting pretty places (and meeting pretty women) Russia covers large part of Eurasia, it also could to a some degree help with other Slavic languages (western ones like Polish less so)
but if you are considering it for business purposes, without any specific company/industry in mind I would rank it as less prospective skill to acquire than say Chinese and falling in ranking dues to unfavorable global political situation,
even then in most places doing business you will be strongly reliant on locals who probably learned English and your knowledge of local language will only play supporting role, once again it all depends on context, all changes if you have some specific opportunity in mind
Gavin Hall
in the end focusing on acquiring general business skills and just hiring translators when needed might be the most optimal strategy
