Comment by risyachka
11 hours ago
Yup.
Not because of war. Because all russia has to offer this world is destruction and learning russian is the biggest waste of time one can come up with.
Only if you don't know any russians you may think "I may communicate with them". When time comes and you meet more than 1 random example of them - you will not want to speak with them ever again.
These are facts from big numbers of people who actually konw them.
If you think "but i know a guy at work at my US company he is from russia" - mate, he is nothing like russians, and he also hides like 90% of his true self.
I'm teaching my son Russian and English now as well as the rich culture. I can also teach him to think critically and NOT support war.
I'm sorry your experience has been so one sided, we all have different persepctives.
From all languages in the world that could benefit an individual and help them with future networking/career/etc - like German, Spanish, French, etc - you picked russian?
Please explain why, this is honestly a very confusing choice.
Your comment was flagged but I just vouched for it because this kind of shameless xenophobia deserves to be seen.
russian is also natively spoken in Belarus, Ukraine & many ethnics minorities inside russian federation.
Ukraine switched off from russian so you can cross it out,
Russian in Belarus, Kazahstan etc is known only because soviet union forced it in schools. And now all those countries reduce its usage on every level.
For obvious reason - it does not bring not a little tiny thing to the table. English does, German, mostly any language. Except russian.
it is delightfully damning that you people say such things out loud :)