Notwithstanding the way that german is spoken in Germany and Austria, it is a power language of Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and a public minority language in a couple of other European countries including Italy (South Tyrol), Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Czech Republic and Romania. That suggests you could get around most of Europe really well with your German language capacities.
In spite of the way that it might have all the earmarks of being an untouchable language immediately, inhale simple due to understanding that German and English come from a comparable language family. That suggests that for each perplexing word you run over you'll moreover notice a great deal of likenesses among German and English words. This will in a perfect world help your conviction and help speed with expanding your learning.