learn all the romance languages

I’m quite advanced in French already and intend on studying it at university. Spanish is coming along and I recently started learning Italian. Spanish is by far the easiest of the three so far. I truly believe that you should start with French. It’s meant to be the hardest of the “big four” (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) and gives you such a good grounding in the Latin-based vocabulary.
My only problem is that finding the time to devote to this is getting more and more difficult!

All right, Portuguese is getting better. Spanish is getting worse, but I think that with some studying I will be able to pick it up again. Especially since practice with the portuguese grammer will be useful. French I’ll work more on when I get home. Italian… well… I just want to know some phrases. Romanian. I’d like to work on, but I have no plans to do so. I am interested to see if it bears any eastern european resemblance.

Really, I want to learn EVERY language, but this is pretty ambitious, and you have to start somewhere, and as of right now, spanish is my best foreign language and French is my third. Once you know one, the others get a lot easier to pick up.

I need to brush up on my Spanish. I wish I could find some good CDs for my car. I’m pretty good at reading it but listening, translating, and responding is a different story. I think CDs would be great. Hell, I’m in the car half of my life anyway.

not because they are “romance” languages but because they are the most useful