I am going to go another route. I only had 4 or 5 friends that really studied language in college. The guys that studied mandarin, despite being able to speak

I am going to go another route. I only had 4 or 5 friends that really studied language in college. The guys that studied mandarin, despite being able to speak it in class with a forgiving teacher, couldn't converse when they got to China. They both said actual chinese is nothing like what you learn in school. They learned everything when they got there, despite having 4 years of university lessons. I also know a guy that studied russian. Same thing. Russia was where he learned russian. He had to reteach himself everything becuase what he learned in the states was useless. So my suggestion is this: if you're going to move to china or russia, then move there with a couple books and go talk to people. Otherwise, learn french or italian and use it to get laid. Most likely, even if you learned a more complex language, you wouldn't use it. So why not study an easier panty-dropping language instead?