Scripting vs. Curly Bracket Language

I've been doing a lot of reading lately and yet I am still stumped. In your own opinion, would you say that the best language to learn with is a scripting language or a curly brackets language?

People always say about how simple scripting languages are but at the same time I want to make sure I'm not making some shitty mistakes that'll bite me in the ass when it comes to creating more complex code. Int he same vein, I don't want to start way over my head and regret it later.

I'm not asking which language is best, just what language set I should choose from, whether you chose from that category to start learning or you wish you had.

1) Start with one or two of: Lua, Python, Scheme. Don't spend too long.

2) Move to: C. K&R.

3) Extend your C programming with the language(s) learned in the first step.

If you have done all three steps, then you will be able to do most whatever you want.