Jordan,
If you are serious about studying and living in Italy, you should definitely make learning Italian your priority. You don't need to learn German or French to visit Germany or France. Learning Italian will probably make it easier to learn Spanish and Portuguese, and learning any of these will make it much easier to travel around Brazil than doing son relying solely on English. And that brings me to Baldewin's question:
<< Do Iberians also have this when learning another Iberian Romance language? >>
Definitely yes, and it is a pain. You can never be sure, when putting together a sentence in your head, that the first word that comes up in your mid is not a false friend or just a made-up approximation. It seems as though you have to work harder to achieve fluency. And here's and example from the opposite side of where I stand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGQYUm3X5ME
If you are serious about studying and living in Italy, you should definitely make learning Italian your priority. You don't need to learn German or French to visit Germany or France. Learning Italian will probably make it easier to learn Spanish and Portuguese, and learning any of these will make it much easier to travel around Brazil than doing son relying solely on English. And that brings me to Baldewin's question:
<< Do Iberians also have this when learning another Iberian Romance language? >>
Definitely yes, and it is a pain. You can never be sure, when putting together a sentence in your head, that the first word that comes up in your mid is not a false friend or just a made-up approximation. It seems as though you have to work harder to achieve fluency. And here's and example from the opposite side of where I stand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGQYUm3X5ME