So I'm looking to learn a new language here, and I'm stuck between these three. Russian seems like it may be the most useful in general, but I plan to travel to the Czech Republic or Slovakia in the future (CZ more likely) and stay for an extended period, and possibly move there. Also, there is a significant number of Bosnian refugees where I live, and I know Czech and Slovak have a good amount of mutual intelligibility with Bosnian, but I'm not sure which would be better (I know they are essentially dialects of the same language, but if one would be better I'd like to know which. Thoughts?
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Anonymous2011-10-01 8:29
Learn Russian.
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Anonymous2011-10-01 14:39
Any reasons for that? I already know Cyrillic (planned to do a Russian exchange for my senior year of high school, didn't get the scholarship though) and I like that it makes more sense (at least to me) than using a modified Roman alphabet for a Slavic language, but past that it seems almost like Czech or Slovak would be more useful. Do most people speak Russian in those countries?
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Anonymous2011-10-01 16:07
Ukainian better than Russian: easier and prettier
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Anonymous2011-10-01 16:26
Ukainian better than Russian: easier and prettier
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Anonymous2011-10-01 19:25
Russian better than Ukrainian: easier and prettier :)
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Anonymous2011-10-02 2:18
No interest in Ukrainian seeing as everyone in the Ukraine speaks Russian