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.
I'd also say French people outside of touristy areas are less likely to speak English than germanic peoples. I haven't been to Spanish language countries. I've heard Spanish is close enough to Italian to be somewhat intelligible, but IDK, YMMV.
Fuck learning french, no one likes the french.
I wonder why US propaganda pushes hating on French people so much. Maybe, because they actually have some class consciousness and often do general strikes.
.. I like the french