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Hello! I'm a Portuguese native speaker and I'm learning languages mostly for professional purposes (I intend to be a diplomat). I've been studying English, French and Spanish for quite some time now and I plan to keep studying them for the next 2 years until I take the civil service examination (as they are the required languages). But as I have some free time (and a certain ability to easily learn multiple languages at time) I thought I could start learning other languages I like and want to know (and then, not only for professional purposes), namely German, Dutch and Italian. I had already started studying German and Italian some years ago, but I gave up them when I entered college as in the beggining I hadn't much free time, and my priorities were English and French. I would like to know, based on the background (native languge, languages I already know, and the difficult of each specific language in question) in which order I should take these languages. I thought it would be better to start with Italian, as I have some familiarity with Romance languages, which should be easy and could help me consolidate my Latin-based vocabulary (which, though, may not be very or particularly useful when I pick Dutch and German...), and then pick Dutch (which is claimed to be easy), and only then German. But I'm not sure if that would be the most efficient sequence... (maybe Dutch first?) Any thoughts?