language.But, which one should you go for? Of all the options out there... Why Spanish?
- Spanish has as many as 330 million speakers worldwide, making it the second
most important of the world's languages and the third most spoken.
- Spanish is the most common first language in the Americas, and Spanish speakers
also can be found in Spain, in much of the United States, the Philippines, and even
Africa.
- Hispanics are projected to become the States' largest minority by 2010 (according to
Woodes and Poole Economics).
- About 5.8 percent of the people who use the Internet speak Spanish, making it the
No. 4 language in the Internet community
- The countries and regions where Spanish is spoken offer destinations and activities
for every type of traveling interest.
- Being bilingual increases one’s market value. Currently, Spanish is needed for
fields such as marketing and sales, medicine, law enforcement, education, social
work and social justice among others.
- Spanish is easy. About 60% of English comes from Latin so both languages have
much of their vocabulary in common. Written Spanish is almost completely phonetic:
Look at almost any Spanish word and you can tell how it is pronounced. The
grammar is pretty straight forward and not very different from English grammar at all.
- Being the third largest city in the US, Chicago is quite diverse and offers a variety of
opportunities to be exposed to the Spanish language, people who speak it and their
culture.
