[lavidaloca]

Personally I chose spanish and am going to pursue portuguese shortly. Why? With Russian, Polish, Italian, etc, you have a limited country base. Whereas with spanish, you have most of central south america, much of central america and the carribbean. Add portuguese to that mix and you can speak the language of a few places in Africa as well as of Brazil and Portugal. Now if you speak Russian, I think you're limited to what? Ukraine, Russian, Belarus, Kazakhstan?