Languages (Where do I start?)

Hi, I am currently studyng programming at a college, since we're learning from basics, we're learning C and C++. I was hoping you could suggest me a language to learn by "myself", something like Python or Java.
I am really an ignorant to mostly anything related to "high level" programming lenguages, so I am open to comments.
I've studied a little bit of pascal, almost all C and currently in C++.
What language do you thing I should learn? and, why?.
Sorry for my english. I'm kinda in a lost ground here.
Thanks!

Thank you all for yout advises.
ewaller wrote:
Most of my coding is done on embedded systems. I would assert that the majority of programming projects are not for desktops and servers, but are for the myriad of systems out there that use embedded controllers to control their logic. I refer to everything from sprinkler controllers to anti-lock brake modules, from washing machines to guided missiles.
My experience is that the vast majority of this type of system use C. As mentioned previously,C is also fundamental to low level system software.
In the C programming classes we've programmed PIC controllers in a few projects, such as a basic security alarm.
yngwin wrote:Python. It's easy, widely used and has immediate practical use. Also, it is strong in usage for scripting (for example for system administration tasks), for building GUIs (with PyQt and PyGTK), as well as for web development (with popular frameworks ranging from Django to CherryPy).
Sirupsen wrote:
You should try a few different languages. Try Python, try Java, try Ruby, try Lua. And eventually you know what's right for you.
Learning Haskell, Lisp or any of these kind of languages may not gain you a new favorite language, but they can certainly help you take new perspectives on problems.
I think I'm going to go in this order you're telling me. Python, Java and Ruby.
karol wrote:Don't get me wrong, but learning to speak (and write) English well will surely pay off.
I would like very much to be able to communicate myself in a better way, but since english it's not what people around me speaks, it's hard for me to speak it. I think I'm not that bad in the reading/understanding aspect of it, but to write it and speak it, since I don't do a lot of english communication at all, is kind of a pain in the ass to me.
Beasides I live in a third-world country, where it's expensive to get a "good" education, most of english I've learned, I've learned it through movies, music, forum and blogspot readings.
Anyway, I'll tell it again, sorry for my english. (Hope you guys can understand me )

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