# Elixir as the first programming language?

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** beginner\
**Created:** [September 12, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-as-the-first-programming-language/34319 "2020-09-12T16:36:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-as-the-first-programming-language/34319/6 "2020-09-12T18:18:38Z")

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> [@Adzz](#):
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> Ruby and Elixir are just two different languages and not related at all. It’s like asking if you should learn french before english

And as it happens certain foreign languages are easier to learn, especially as a first. Everything else being equal and the goal is simply to learn _some foreign language_, I would certainly recommend a native Russian speaker learn French before English, and as an English speaker I _know_ starting with pretty much any romance language is much preferable to, say Turkish (currently _struggling_ with Turkish 😓 ). I would rank both Elixir and Ruby has high on a list of accessible languages in a similar way

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