Hah, it's a possibility, I never got along well with Italians for some reason :p
My white whale for the last years has been to learn a slavic language, probably slovenian as it's the one spoken the most around where I live, but the motivation is kind of hard to get.
I know the most useful languages around me otherwise, and some a bit more esoteric like Danish, Swedish and japanese, but most of the time it's German and English, they are useful.