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What's the use of learning Spanish?

The necessity of learning Spanish

In this era in which we live, with the continuous progress of science and technology, communication has become an increasingly important part of people's work and life. In our daily work and study, we can see that communication is not limited to our familiar environment. In many cases, we need to deal with people who speak different languages, that is to say, learning a foreign language has become a necessary way for us to ensure smooth communication. In recent years, foreign language learning has gradually become an important means for people to improve themselves, among which English learning is the most popular. After mastering English, many people want to choose to learn a second foreign language, either out of work needs or out of interest, in order to have a greater advantage in the fierce competition.

Most people who have mastered English may not choose Spanish as a second foreign language, on the one hand, because they don't know the application scope of this language, on the other hand, because they know little about its characteristics. In fact, although Spanish is not as widely used as English in the world, it still plays a very important role in people's communication all over the world.

Spanish is the third largest language in the world, with nearly 500 million speakers, second only to English and Chinese. As many as 2 1 countries in the world use Spanish as the official language. Except Spain in Europe, most countries in Latin America and Equatorial Guinea in Africa speak Spanish, while more than 20 million residents in the western and southern United States use Spanish, and radio and television stations also broadcast Spanish programs. At the same time, Spanish is also an important working language of the United Nations, the European Union, the World Trade Organization and other organizations, and is one of the common languages of many international conferences.

In recent years, with the increasing economic and trade exchanges between China and Spain and Latin American countries, the domestic demand for Spanish talents is also increasing. However, the current reality is that there is a shortage of talents who can master Spanish in China, which is bound to provide broad employment and development space with competitive advantages for those who can learn and master Spanish.

The Importance and Application of Spanish

From the development of the language itself, learning Spanish is also a good choice. Recently, some scholars have put forward such an interesting point. He believes that although there are as many as 6,000 to 8,000 languages and dialects in the world, most of them will disappear over time, and more and more people will tend to choose to use "lingua franca" Chinese, English or Spanish. In the future, the development trend of world languages will gradually focus on some languages. He believes that in one hundred years, Chinese, English and Spanish will become the "mainstream languages" in the world.

At present, there are about 200 to 250 languages spoken by more than one million people in the world, among which English, Chinese and Spanish are among the best. He believes that more and more people speak English because this language has a very stable role and status in international communication; The advantage of Chinese and Spanish lies in the large number of people who use these two languages. Mastering these two languages will be beneficial to international political, economic and cultural exchanges in a vast social space.