Which language would you learn?

[burbuja0512]

I know this is a long thread and I'm coming in late, but as someone who has spent quite a bit of her life dedicated to learning languages, here is my 2 cents:

Spanish undoubtably is the best choice for many reasons already mentioned. You have to PRACTICE to learn and unless you get creative, it'll be hard to really practice other languages unless you're in a very large city.

Spanish can be the key to learning other languages. Once you master Spanish, I would HIGHLY recommend Brazilian Portuguese. It's similar enough to Spanish to where it only took me a few months to be conversant but the pronunciation has really helped my French.

As much as I love Italian and as (relatively) easy it would be for me to learn as I can already understand it, unless you want to spend a lot of time in Italy, it's not all that practical. Italy isn't exactly a driving economic force right now and if you speak Spanish, you can manage to understand some Italian.

Above all do what you love, even if you'll never get to use it, but be careful - it's SOOOOO difficult to learn a language and then never use it. And to be very painfully honest, if you don't ever speak it, no matter how awesome you are at reading or watching internet videos, I can pretty much guarantee that you would not be able to speak and be understood. That would be really upsetting if you spent years learning it only to find out that you couldn't use it.