Thread: Why are so many Russians who want to have foreign pen pals and few non-Russian speake

Originally Posted by kidkboom

does the most common trade-language chosen end up being the one from the richest country?

French was the common tongue in the 1700-early 1800s despite not being the richest country. For Chinese to even have a chance they with have to go to a complete Pinyin system and abandon characters; not likely to happen.

Hihihi Californication....
Yeah , the same "phenomena" happens in Brazil: english , english , english and that´s all. I feel myself an alien studying languages as turkish , armenian and russian. As somebody wrote here before , these are romantic languages .

I am learning the Russian langage for several reasons, though it is certainly NOT essential for me to learn it.

1. I am around A LOT of Russian/Belorussians in the industry which I work.
2. I believe that by learning and understanding, I am hoping to show respect to those I am with on a day to day basis.
3. I (romantically) find it a fascinating and beautiful language.
4. My heritage is that of Romanian and Russian, therefor, I SHOULD learn and pass this onto my children.
5. Simply, it is the first foreign language I have ever been remotely interested in learning and, thus have not given up on.

There are more reasons.

But, back to the main question, I have done the pen pal thing, it seems it wanes regardless if American or Russian. The correspondence is wonderful, when it happens, yet life intrudes on both side of the ocean and well .... =)

Emeraldeyez, you know the Romanian language?

igrotek ..... not fluently. Another I am actively working on.

Originally Posted by Ramil

If you think Russian is difficult, you should try Korean.

I'm trying Korean as well. Much easier to pronounce but the grammar is mind-boggling.