smallwhite wrote:In reality, I went for French > Spanish > Italian because I like easy things. But the next candidate, Portuguese, looks so similar and therefore so boring, I'd think I'd go for other language families from now on.
This is me too. I went French > Latin > Spanish and then decided to change things up and learn Japanese. I think if you only know one romance language then learning another is going to give you lots of interesting new stuff, but by the fourth it starts to feel like you're just learning a new accent .