i think you’ll open way more doors for yourself if you learn italian! it really will make the other latin based languages a lot easier to grasp which will be super useful i think!! from experience, me knowing spanish has made learning french and understanding portuguese and italian a lot easier, for example hehe, so italian will be a similar case! also i think it’s a bit easier to get the hang of in general compared to german (having tried and failed to start learning german in the past LMAO) :)