Should I learn Russian or Hindi, what's the easiest?

Question

I speak English, French and Dutch fluently. I studied latin for 6 years, Greek for 1 year, German for 1 year, Spanish for half a year.

Just so you know, I have learned some languages before, as well as a different alphabet (Greek), and that's not too hard.

The only thing I'm concerned about is the grammar and language/phrase structure. Taking that into consideration, which one is going to be easier to learn?

Answer 1

Russian FTW

You already know some Greek and this will place you whay ahead on learning cyrilic and grammar.

Answer 2

Well, the Russian alphabet will be easier for you to learn since you know the  Greek and Roman ones.  Hindi has strange grammar and is a verb final language (verbs are usually at end of a sentence.)  Hindi also has some ergativity, which is not present in any European languages derived from PIE, even though Hindi is also a PIE langauage

But I think both are difficult for English speakers ,with Hindi maybe being a little bit  more weird because of ergativity and post positions and verb finality.  Hindi also has something called compound verbs which are also a cause of great misery for non-native speakers.  They are very tricky and in themselves can take years to figure out.  

The Devanagari alphabet is a pain in the neck because it accounts for apsirated and non-aspirated consonants and also dental and retro flex T's and D's, so there are four T's and D's essentially that you will have to learn to distinguish properly when you hear them.  That is a major pain in the neck.

Another thing is that there are over 56 different characters, but consonant blends or conjuncts are combined in writing and so you have to get used to seeing consonants alone or as part of a conjunct.

for example st = स्त   = स + त

k + Sh = क + ष = क्ष

vowels too take on different forms from their stand alone forms when they follow a consonant.  Thus so = सो = स + ओ (s + o)

but you have ओवल = oval since the "o" starts the word.  

There are certainly a lot of annoying points about Hindi and how Urdu words are spelled in it.  For example, in Hindi there is no letter "z", so they use "j" with a dot under it, but most Hindi publications leave out the dot and it gets annoying, thus the word "busy" is spelled  bijii, बिजी

instead of बिज़ी bizii and that is annoying.

Answer 3

Russian is the easiest and best,  learning that language will make u millions and its avery risch language, So go with russian

Answer 4

I don't know which is easiest, but Russian is probably the most useful since English is widely spoken in India, but not in Russia.