Italian is an optional second language in junior high school and senior high school.
French, Spanish and Italian belong to the Latin family. The vocabulary is similar.
French and Italian are also inflectional words, masculine and feminine words.
The definite article in English and le (masculine) la (feminine) in French/Italian.
Displacement: the manger eats my horse, I eat Tummanges, you eat il mange, he eats nous mangeons, we eat and so on.
From a practical point of view, French has a population of 200 million, nearly four times that of Italy.
But it can't be judged from this angle alone, because most people who use French are in Africa (former French colonies).
French culture has influenced neighboring countries for centuries in history (Bourbon dynasty, Napoleon period, etc.). )
Moreover, France has a larger population than Italy (number of users in developed countries).
Italy's economy retreated and became one of the "European Pig Five Countries".
But if you only learn a second foreign language, the number of French learners greatly exceeds that of Italian.
So Italian is more practical for translation (because few people study Italian and French translation is everywhere)
In July 2009, the self-study exam "Ideological and Moral