| Why learn Spanish of all languages? Why not Italian, | | | | an entire hemisphere full of a language. And then there |
| French, or even Russian, because it seems to be the | | | | is Spain as well, while that Spanish may be slightly |
| most practical language to have these days living in | | | | different than the Spanish in Latin America, Spanish it |
| the US. With an ever-expanding Latin American | | | | still is. |
| population, being able to speak a language that is | | | | There are an ever-increasing amount of reasons why |
| becoming so widely used would be an invaluable | | | | people should learn Spanish. Not only because of the |
| asset. Schools are even becoming bi-lingual and | | | | amount of people who speak it but in a more selfish |
| Spanish is stressed. There are even parts of the | | | | way it is becoming increasingly valuable to speak a |
| country; Miami springs to mind, where there are most | | | | second language professionally. The problem is that |
| likely more people for whom Spanish is their first | | | | people in the United States tend to be more than a |
| language than there are people who are native English | | | | little arrogant in their thought that English is the most |
| speakers. | | | | important language and they simply don't need to |
| Even outside of the states, Spanish is one of the most | | | | speak anything else. |
| widely spoken languages in the world; the ranking is | | | | Being bilingual gives one opportunities to live and work |
| apparently in dispute as I found numerous statistics. | | | | outside of the country that would be unavailable |
| Most Latin American countries, those in Central and | | | | otherwise. It gives one options. And given the large |
| South America speak Spanish with an ever increasing | | | | amount of counties in which Spanish is spoken it gives |
| amount of people in the United States. That is almost | | | | one a lot of options. |