But it is a living language and not among the most difficult ones. Why not learn the whole language rather than a reading focus only? You don't have to learn to fluency.
Because of the effort involved. At least for me, learning how to read in a foreign language is far far easier than learning how to understand the spoken language and learning how to produce the spoken and written forms of the language.
So, I can either learn how to read, hear, speak, and write a a single language or I can expend the same effort and learn to read many languages. For me, the later is much more appealing. But then, I'm a voracious reader and too introverted to be interested in talking or writing to actual living people.
Because my main interest in Russian comes from wanting tk read grammars of other languages written only in Russian, as well as other Russian literature. Not much for interacting with others, though of course I'd likely improve that once I met my goals with reading.
