Why learn Spanish

Spanish is spoken by 370 million people world wide by some estimates and 500 million if your include non native speakers. Learning Spanish will open door and almost rivals English as a business language. 

Why learn Spanish? By JIM WINGARD-Spanish is the official language of Spain and its overseas provinces. It is also the official language of 18 Latin American republics and part of Puerto Rico. Many people in the United States speak Spanish, especially in Florida and the Southwest. Altogether, about 160,000,000 people speak the language. Spanish is the most widely used romance language. The Spanish spoken in Spain is often called Castilian Spanish. The Spanish used in Latin America is known as American Spanish.High schools in the United States started offering Spanish as a foreign language as far back as 1930. Most U.S. students, however, take Spanish in High School just to get a credit and don’t really try to learn to speak it. The Spanish language developed from Latin about 200 B.C. Of course, it has been influenced by the results of wars over the years to its present state.Most of the Spanish speaking people in the United States are from Mexico and Colombia, South America. The Colombians claim their dialect is closer to the original Spanish language. So, what’s the big deal about Spanish? I think the language is beautiful. But, why do so many manufacturers of products we now use include instructions and labels written in Spanish and English? It’s because there are more than 30,000,000 Spanish-speaking people now living in the U.S. The Hispanics work, pay taxes and buy products like Americans do.

Certainly, for Americans learning Spanish has no downside.

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