Should more Americans be learning Spanish as a second language ?

I definitely feel that learning Spanish is extremely important for Americans to do. I studied Spanish in school for many years. All students should have a second language and Spanish is most important for all the reasons you gave in the question.

I am sorry that we do not value the learning of Spanish at an earlier age than 7th grade. When chldren are very young they absorb so much so quickly and learn the correct sounds.

I am in the opinion that, even though learning a second language other than English is important, that more non-English speaking Americans (documented and undocumented) should be learning English. It is our national language and has been since its inception. It's like having a bunch of French people move into Germany and ask the Germans to learn French.

If Americans want to deal better with foreigners at home and abroad, getting at least a general understanding of their language and putting forth an effort to use it shows that you are not ignorant.

However, it should not be mandatory to learn Spanish as a second language to operate within the borders of our country.

I think Spanish is the most spoken language as a first language in the world. Lots of people speak english but as a second language. Chinese is actually two languages. So the answer is learn spanish try http://www.myspanishtutor.net/ for really good native spanish tutors.

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You pretty much explained why we all should know Spanish. However, it’s for similar reasons that immigrants from the South should know English. I know this is more about how bilingual education education is controversial because "they should speak our language if they’re going to live here!" Yes, fine, fine...but is bilingual education a bad idea? Yes, because it doesn’t offer enough languages.

Here’s how my language education class will work. The second language people will learn will either be what’s spoken where they live or what’s most spoken in a neighboring country. This means US citizens learning Spanish and immigrants learning English. The third language taught will be a major language of the student’s choice. By "major," I mean a language that is either one of the most spoken languages, or has a disproportionate percentage of professionals among its speakers (e.g., Dutch, Korean).

Personally, I think people should know at least seven languages: one Indo-European, one Afro-Asiatic, one Sino-Tibetan, one ancient, an isolate, a conlang, and a dying language. Opting for practicality with seven major languages would be fine so long as they’re spread out among language families. In that case, the ideal would be learning Arabic, English, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

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I think we should be teaching a foreign language as a requirement in schools, we are a country of immigrants and we have many neighbors from the south here... yes, spanish should be taught to all as a second language. In Europe, nearly everybody knows a second language. We NEED to jump on the bandwagon.

Learning a second language always helps you somehow, so yeah. Stop thinking that all the rest of us have to learn english only because you speak it.

Of learning Spanish. My mother moved here from Germany when she was 18 and had to learn English, my close friend moved here from Russia, she had to learn English.. If they are coming HERE to live they SHOULD learn OUR language.

I'll learn Spanish when I move to Mexico(like NEVER)

It helps when you apply for a job if you know more than one language, so yes.

if i'm not going to leave america, the mexicans can learn english because thats the only way i'll ever meet them