Why You Should Learn Spanish

Because the Spanish national soccer team have won both the recent World Cup and European Championships, now is certainly a good time to learn Spanish. It does not matter whether you have experience or knowledge. Here are the reasons why you should.

Should you decide to travel to Spain or Spanish speaking countries like Argentina, Brazil and Portugal, you certainly need to know how to speak the language at the very least. Especially taking care of your basics like finding accomodation, food and places during your stay there.

From time to time, you will be asking for directions and needing to know the answers unless you are a translator or travelling in tour groups. Like at the restaurant, you need to know what is on the menu and the price of what you ordered.

Although some Spaniards speak English, most will not understand what you are talking unless you know their language and how to interact with them.

Another reason you should learn Spanish is making friends in this country. Nothing is more important than communicating with people. Not even reading and writing. Because if you do not, the most you can do is just smile and say hello but you cannot engage them in conversations.

You can also help people the same way you want to be helped if you know Spanish. You may never know when someone is in need of help but if you helped that person, you might have gained one friend in return. Those countries I mentioned other than Spain like Argentina, Brazil and Portugal are inhabited mostly by Latino people. So in order to reach out to them as their target market for their products or services, some companies do make Spanish courses compulsory for their staff especially customer service, sales and marketing personnel.

Doing these is a win-win situation for both them and their prospect customers as once they mastered the language, getting business deals will certainly not be a problem.

Businesses which correspond online through phones and face-to-face discussions frequently usually have translators to bridge the communication gap. But now because the customers want a more interpersonal touch, even the middle and upper management staff have to learn Spanish.

Learning Spanish does not have to be confined to business dealings and personal learning. You can get your children to learn along with you as well. It makes learning more fun and even helps to improve your relationships with them.

Children love experimenting new things and will be happier if they have company to share their joys with.

If you like Spanish arts, culture and history, you will certainly be more interested in learning Spanish than anyone else. Subconsciously, you will find yourself reading books, listening to music, watching movies and television programmes.

Studies have shown that people doing all these as their hobbies and passion tend to learn much faster than those learning through on-and-offline courses be it classroom learning or 1-to-1 tuition.

Because of the national soccer team's achievements, Spanish is no longer regarded as second or third language that people can just learn and take lightly. For through this, they get to bond with Spanish speaking people and widen their social networks.

About Author

Jose Luiz Fernandez is a director at Pacific Learning Portals Inc that focuses on teaching Spanish and other foreign languages both on-and-offline.

Check out his review site on best Spanish courses.