Bored and want a hobby + possible income source

Right now I'm stuck on whether to go with learning Russian or learning one of the programming languages Python and Java. Russian seems to be the best language to learn when one factors in difficulty, as it is not too hard like Mandarin but not too easy like French either. I would hope to either become a translator or just steal English language web content and post it in .ru and make money online that way. But then I wonder how viable such may be, if Google translation improves. With Python and Java they also are not too difficult or easy, but I am concerned that I would hate to be a programmer (no offense).

So my question is, if you could go back in time to the day you settled down to learn programming, knowing what you know now, would you choose to learn programming or would you switch to learning Russian?

What does "learn python" even mean? Language? Writing clean idiomatic code? I work in python professionally 5+ years (~12 years if I count since I've begun to code in python for fun) and I have still much to learn in terms of how to do clean maintainable software _specifically in python_. For example in contrast with java, you don't need most of the design patterns, because they are somehow built into the language. And as someone who also coded in Java, I can safely say that you need to unlearn good deal of java mindset before you can do clean python.

Off course learning just basics of syntax and stdlib is quick, but that's equivalent of learning just Cyrillic, compared to speaking fluently and writing books in Russian.

Learning Russian may be much easier, even more so, if you are from slav country (I am) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages

I have been thinking about mandarin, because just pure numbers (1G speakers is hard to ignore).