My SO is half italian. Her close family speaks both english and italian, but many of her relatives and friends do not speak english well. We live in Scotland, but we will likely visit italy often in future as her family has a holiday home there. Especially if we have kids, as we intend to raise them bilingual.

I recently expressed interest in learning German, and this started a debate as my SO thinks that if I am going to learn a language, it would be much more considerate of her and her friends/family/kids to learn Italian. I say that the most important thing is my level of interest - I learned latin languages such as spanish, french, and latin in school and I never enjoyed them.

Not a big deal but we can't seem to come to an agreement on this. 