Quote Originally Posted by Elin View Post
If you're an Italian native speaker you have a huuuuge headstart on French and Spanish, at least. Even speaking limited French as a non-native, I find I can understand little chunks of Spanish and Italian. And though you have to learn new verb conjugations and stuff, they share a huge amount of grammar features. I'm sure you'll be able to learn French in like a quarter of the time it took me as an English native. And you'll probably speak it much better by the end, too. XD
Indeed, I did French at college but mostly because I didn't know what subject to pick. Spanish of course is easier, but Italian grammar is sure the worst thing ever invented, as well as the German one.