That's probably good advice, but not applicable to almost anyone. If you have to learn another language in order to read a book, you're probably not going to r

That's probably good advice, but not applicable to almost anyone. If you have to learn another language in order to read a book, you're probably not going to read the book. If you already happen to know Russian, German and Ancient Greek, then yeah, go ahead and read them in the original languages :)