I'm completely stuck on what language I should learn. I'm stuck between Latin, Russian, and German. I'm interested in Latin because I'm a Catholic and I would like to read the Bible in catholic. I'm interested in Russian because I love reading Dostoevsky and I already know the Cryrillic alphabet. I like to listen to Russian songs too. I'm interested in German because I think it would be nice to travel to there sometime and I have already book about German but I haven't read it much. Any advice?
>>34151306Learning a language is hard. Going through that effort just to read a book seems wasteful. So choose the language that will be the most useful outside that one book. Do you like Soviet cinema? Do you like German TV? Do you want to read Roman philosophers or history? Do you want to sing Wagner? Gregorian chants?And it should be noted that the Bible is mostly written in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic. The Latin new testament is itself a translation.
>>34151306Not to further muddy the waters for you, but if the most appealing angle for you is biblical scholarship, you might want to consider Koine Greek.Aside from that, I think that the first post was the best post in this thread.You should consider what benefits these languages should bring you outside of being able to read books in their original languages.
>>34151306Uzbek-Turkic
