Well, it depends. The south-western states usually prioritise French, some north-western offer Dutch. Idk abt the eastern states but judging by the world population speaking either polish or czech, I would believe those are more optional courses, if anything.

Italy and Germany do not have a common border.

That‘s true. On the contrary, having taken French and Latin, I picked up basic Spanish and Italian almost on the go, when visiting these countries.

Also French is prioritised as it’s our direct neighbour.

In my German “Gymnasium“, we had English, French, Latin and Russian.

Ah, the old German classic: Toast Hawaii