Which language should I learn? Dilemma...?

I'm a former Spanish and French teacher with a certifcate in language acquisition. Although some people study multiple languages at the same time (and report success at it), I do not recommend it. I feel you should hold off until one of them is at the intermediate level (2nd year).

Language learning involves memorizing lots of new vocabulary as well as new grammatical structures. German and Spanish are based on entirely different structures. There is a limit to how much new language information you can absorb at any given time, and whatever memorization space you take up with one language will influence your memorization of the other. By the time you are at the intermediate level, you have internalized enough of the first language to make the process of learning two at the same time much easier.

I began learning Spanish after three years of learning French, and the similarity in structures and vocabulary was very helpful to me. Spanish was easy and I seemed to breeze through it. But I noticed that many students just don't enjoy learning languages, and so it can be hard in the beginning.

You are obviously disciplined enough to study on your own and have a genuine interest in languages. But you will be a college freshman soon and there will be so many new challenges and adventures for you. If you can hold off on one of the languages for now, it would make your transition to college easier in my opinion.

I think you should take the German courses offered by your college first. Fluency comes best from interaction in authentic contexts, which is what the foreign language teacher tries to create in the classroom. This will help you learn faster than with the curriculum you are using on your own for Spanish. It will not hurt a bit for you to continue to practice the Spanish you have already learned, however, and if possible, use it in some way.

After you see how much you enjoy German, and how well you do academically, you can decide for yourself when to take up more progress in Spanish again.

Congratulations to you on your motivation. I hope you are very successful with both languages.

Every language has it is advantages in being discovered, but it surely depends upon what you desire to do. You recognize Spanish, so Latin might be an overly convenient, and except you as a rule already recognize plenty of Latin phrases (possibly now not the right way to pronounce them correct although). I might appear for a "Source language" although. Like should you research Russian, you'll be understood, and possibly be capable to fully grasp different Slavic speakme members comparable to the ones from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Czech, possibly even Polish. If you be taught German, you'll possibly capable to get via to any person who's Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, although much more likely Dutch or Afrikaans. If you research Swahili you could get many dialects of Bantu languages. If you do Tagalog or one other Austronesian language it might aid you out in that experience. You talk a Romance language already, however probably the most others are not as beautiful, particularly French. I'd say appear for anything wherein the tradition pursuits you, practically.

When I was in highschool, I studied French, German and Latin all at the same time. In university, I studied French and German in my first year.

So it's possible to learn more than one foreign language at the same time.

I'd say take German at college and keep up with your self-study of Spanish, as long as you have time for it.

It would be OK to study both. German is somewhat similar to English and have a lot of words in common. Spanish is also somewhat similar to English, albeit to a lesser degree than German is.