# should I take Russian or Ancient Hebrew next semester

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-take-russian-or-ancient-hebrew-next-semester/578037 "2011-04-12T01:46:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-take-russian-or-ancient-hebrew-next-semester/578037/21 "2011-04-13T04:23:18Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> I would choose russian but that’s just because I always find Chekhov so whiny and I wonder if he’d be less irritating in the original russian.

My understanding is, “no”. I have been told that War and Peace, and Crime and Punishment, are precisely as godawful tedious in Russian as they are in any other language, only more so.

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