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You may wonder about the reasons for which you should learn how to speak Spanish. There are many reasons to do so. If you are to take statistics, Spanish is becoming slowly but steadily one of the most frequent spoken languages in the world. For example, more and more United States residents, who are not seen as people desiring to learn many foreign languages, are learning Spanish these days. In Europe the Spanish language is gaining ground, being the second spoken language after English. There are over 400 million Spanish speakers in the world and this makes it the fourth most spoken language, after English, Chinese and Hindustani. Unofficial studies believe that the number of native Spanish speakers has outnumbered the native English speakers. Countries from four continents have Spanish as the official language. Spanish people have significant historic importance and that is why the language is so widely spread in the world.

But there are many more reasons for which to start learning Spanish.

Because a significant amount of the English vocabulary derived from Latin, by knowing Spanish you will have a better understanding of English. Both of these languages have common Indo-European roots and their grammar does not differ very much. It is thus easier to start learning Spanish if you master the English grammar very well and vice versa, studying it will tell you more about the way the English language is structured.

By knowing Spanish you can get a better understanding of your neighbors. Long are the days when the Spanish speaking population lived only in Mexico, Florida and New York. Nowadays most large cities have Spanish speaking population and some of them do not know English very well. Studying this language can help you understand them even if they do not the official national language. Compared to learning other foreign languages at first, Spanish has the advantage that you will have the opportunity to use it more often, as there are more Spanish talking people in the United States as French or Italians.

Learning the Spanish language also has the advantage of better cultural understanding. You will learn how other people belonging to different cultures think. If you will know the Spanish language well enough to understand to read from Spanish or Latin American newspapers, you will see that you get a sense of their culture, their habits and their ways of life. Let's not forget that there is a very valuable Spanish literature available, with very prestigious writers, belonging to both modern and classic times.

If you are interested in learning more foreign languages, mastering Spanish will give an advantage when starting learning Italian or French. They all are Latin derived languages and their grammar and some parts of the vocabulary are very similar. Lingual specialists say that learning a Latin derived language will help you learn German or Russian easier, as all of these foreign languages have the same Indo European roots.

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