I'm planing on backpacking across Europe next year and I hate being the dipshit who only speaks one langue. I already have a small amount of german and spanish so those are the only two I'm interested in. I get the impression that outside of Spain spanish isn't spoken much but I do plan on traveling south america at some point too so spanish is going to be needed eventually.
Only time I really needed to speak German in Germany was giving directions to a cab driver. I think pretty much everyone speaks English there except recent immigrants.
But I enjoy learning the language, it comes easier than romance languages.
And generally I think it won some goodwill to at least be able to say, "Mein Deustch ist nicht so gut."
Deutsch :smuglord: