How important is for any American to learn Spanish or any other second language ?

Question

How important is for any American to learn Spanish or any other second language ?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Spanish is the second most spoken language on the planet and in North America. Around the world it is unusual for some one to be monolingual. The majority of people on Earth speak 2 languages. Knowing a second language activates parts of the brain not commonly used in monolingual person. As well, it opens more opportunities. Many business have deals with mexico or Quebec as part of NAFTA. We need more Arab translators in the military. With China being a large trading partner, businesses need more translators.

To answer your question, it is very important and will open many new doors to all who try it.

Answer 3

It isn't important. I'll admit the illegal aliens from Mexico have done to this country what Russia couldn't do in the fifties and sixties but why make their take over any easier by learning their language. We are still an english speaking country. Its long past time to throw out being politically correct and tell all the incoming people to learn english. Tell Obama and people who think like him to "get lost" and vote against him.

Answer 4

According to Senator Obama, children in the U.S. must learn Spanish so he isn't embarrassed by Americans speaking English when he's in France.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me, either.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that knowing another language can be very useful (I wish I'd kept up my German after I left college), but the importance really depends upon the individual.  I get along fine in my life and my job with only speaking English, though there'd be some benefits if I learned Spanish or Tagalog.

Answer 5

A second language is good, spanish no, some other would be fine.

Answer 6

It's pretty important, but not so important where you are required by the government to learn a second language.

Answer 7

It is so important!

Es muy importante!

Answer 8

Any "educated" person should have at least one other language. It seems that in the U.S., Spanish is the defensive choice. My French hasn't done me a lot of good in the past few years.

Answer 9

Hey i am not trying to offend anyone here but i need to put here how i think. If you go to Mexico 95% of everything is in Spanish and in my mind they don't care how it affect foreigners of different language. Every place you go in Mexico you have problem getting information. I think that is very not hospitable nor kind what ever is the right word.

Then here America try to cater for all language which is very kind. In fact even the authorities in Mexico take advantage of language. I can prove that. I think Mexico should know that that is very bad unprofessional. I am not blaming the local Mexicians, its the authority. And on the other hand why would America want to convert to spanish speaking is it because we don't know or identity or greed. yes provision should be there to help the foriegn lauguage in America but that should not be a topic.

Answer 10

I think it's very important, especially if you live around the Mexico border, Southern Florida, and big cities like New York.  Learning languages is very important in my opinion.  With the language, we learn culture, and many times, certain things can best be expressed in a different language.

The comment above about how we should make others learn our language instead of learning theirs is silly.  Sure, they should be learning English if they wish to live here, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't learn their language.  Communication is more important than whose language is used to do it.

Answer 11

For daily needs and survival with better communication system among all tribes of different community and for communication with God?

In one new universal language and one speech in living words.

When living human kind were universally created with twelve differently universal built-in communication system.

Without being aware of it being expose in time.

Genesis 11.1

Look in the real world.

In messing up with ghostly kitchen's dialect with ghostly and deadly words from the graveyards of different tribe of different community.

With misinterpretation, miscommunication, communication failures and communication break-down in the streets.

Genesis 11.6

What do you think?

Answer 12

In my personal experience on a scale of 0-9 9 being most important and 0 being a wast of time I must give it a 2.5 if you live in the Southwest like I did for 53 years. I speak fluent American English, German, Spanish, poor Mandarin Chinese. The German, Spanish and Chinese helped when I traveled in foreign lands and for those times I will give it a 4 cause when I traveled everyone wanted to practice their English.  I live in the Ohio river Valley now and I will give it a 0 cause not more than a few of illegals speak any of those languages. As an electrical contractor in NM I gave  a little importance because I could stand there and listen to the Illegal Mexicans talk about how and when they were going to steal my tools. They were always surprised when I was waiting on them. The cabrones could not figure out a Gringo could speak Spanish.

Answer 13

Very!

I'm learning Spanish and I love it!  :D

Answer 14

It depends on where you are going in your life, who you are going to be interacting with and how much attention you want to give to the rest of the world. To me the scariest part of the Cold War was knowing that there were more U.S. nuclear warheads pointed at Russia than the number of speakers of the Russian language in this country. I'm sure glad we had some ace translators so no mistakes were made in the communications between the two sides.

I'm conversational in six languages other than English. Not fluent. But, enough to make myself understood and to understand most replies. And I've learned some interesting little facts which would have eluded me had I not taken time to learn some of those languages. Right now I'm working on simple phrases in Arabic only because that is the chief language of the "Hirabah" (terrorists) that we are at war with.

Answer 15

its only important if your willing to learn it cause if you don't want to learn it then what's the point of trying to learn it......

Answer 16

No importante.

Answer 17

Americans must learn Spanish because the Latin Americans are taking over USA.

Answer 18

Knowledge is power.

Answer 19

It depends where you live as to whether you learn Spanish, for example, I live in Texas and I have children who happen to be African American, I required them to learn Spanish and they both can speak it as well as write it. This is important if you want to be marketable in the workforce. My son being able to interrupt Spanish has opened up quite a few job opportunities for him.

Answer 20

I think it would nice to learn one IF that is your choice but the govt has NO BUSINESS telling you that YOU have to learn one and students in school have to learn one to graduate.. Had I had to learn one to graduate, i would not have graduated. I struggled just to get thru my basic courses in school.  These students who have learning disabilities and who are just barely making it anyway..may not graduate having to learn one.. Not everyone can learn a foreign language.. I took Spanish.. after 1 day, i had to drop it.. I was so confused and so lost.. it wasn't even funny..

If you choose to learn it more power to you but to MAke me learn it so I can communicate with someone who was NOT born in US and comes here LEGALLY or ILLEGALLY and is too lazy to learn my language.. is not right. If I move to another country they are NOT going to learn to speak English JUST so they can communicate with me.. It's ridiculous.. I know sign language.. to me that's a little more important than Spanish..

Answer 21

I think it is pretty important.  I understand the fact that if you're in America speak English, but on the other hand, if you plan on traveling to another country, say France or Spain, I think you should learn a least a little of their language.  It's the kind of courtesy we expect, so give a little in return.  

As a country, the U.S. does business in many different countries, so I believe learning a second or third language wouldn't hurt anyone in the long run.  It makes you more marketable with jobs, and I have found learning a second language fun and exciting...definitely when you speak it and someone else of that native tongue understands what you said! :)