There's no escaping it, I did 2years of Latin thinking it woudl never be any use but it helps with both German and Italian (and Portugese, SPanish, French, Romanian)
Since I started learnign Italian I've been imrpessed with how much it helps with other languages. French is difficult because of the woeful Frog pronunciation, but Portugese is dead easy, it seems to be related to Italian as Scots is to English.