"Life is too short to learn German"

Life is too short to learn Russian.

Life is long enough to learn French.

Even though Life is just long enough to learn French, it isn't really worth the effort. There are zillions of things more important to do in this life.
Literally zillions ...

Don't waste your time like that is my good faith advice.

You can fuck my ass instead.

By the way, the ancient Indo-European religion which is known under its Greek, Roman, Germanic, Celtic, etc... variant is still alive under the name of Hinduism. Christianity has replaced it here. We call it 'paganism' because the last follower of that religion were 'country dwellers'.