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I'm equally interested in Italian, which actually may be the better choice. Opera, tailors, and the fact that I have family there are making me think hard about taking it.
As someone who works in the Acquisitions division of Harvard Library's Germanic Department, I come across most of the northern European languages on a daily basis. Speaking Norwegian and German fluently, its easy to decipher Danish, Swedish and Dutch, Icelandic is considerably more difficult, but doable. When I get a shipment from Hunagry or Finland, I pretty much just fake it.
Dutch is the most similar language to English and when watching TV in hotels, there was always subtitles and some sentences looked to similar to English in how they were spelled and stuff that I could almost understand the Dutch MTV or whatever crap they had on.
Is Russian offered? I'm having fun with that, though it's hard as hell to speak well unless you live there for awhile. And if the oil markets hold up and you're so inclined, it could be a useful tool to have if you want to go into international business.
I might suggest Norwegian. It's very fun to speak and pretty straightforward to learn.
If you want a purely useful language learn something like spanish, hindi, arabic, japanese, or mandarin. Probably russian and korean could go on that list as well. If you're in certain parts of the US spanish would top the list, and would probably be a breeze with your background in latin.