Popularity of Russian PK Japanese

Shuimo   Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:27 pm GMT
Which of the two is more studied as a foreign language in yr country?
poiu   Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:19 pm GMT
Russian
User   Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:18 pm GMT
In Brazil, Japanese (I think). Besides Japanese pop culture being very influential (even before the manga-craze a whole generation grew up watching japanese shows on television, like Jaspion), there's a lot of nipo-brazilians.

Among Brazilian intelligentsia Russian gets a lot of attention, but very few people seem to actually learn it.
Tionghoa   Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:43 am GMT
In China, Japanese is much more widely studied than Russian now, though it was ever quite the opposite a few decades ago.
Skippy   Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:52 am GMT
In the US I'm sure it varies widely by state... In general though Japanese is more widely studied, although Russian is in the top ten and was, as of 2006, more popular than Arabic.