Why You Should Start Learning Spanish (asap)

"If trends do not change in three or four generations, 10 percent of the world population will speak in Spanish," predicts the report, which estimated that the first country is the U.S. (in 2050 over 132 million people will speak it, almost triple the 46.7 million today).

Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world.

Spanish that is spoken by 450 million people, is the second language in the world by number of native inhabitants, the second language of international communication and the third most used via the Internet, according to a report released today by the Instituto Cervantes.

In presenting this report to be released on the occasion of the celebration today of Spanish Day, the director of Instituto Cervantes, Carmen Caffarel, said that Spanish is a host dialogue and language, the language spread to the Americas five centuries ago. " "Now, at the time that global society requires to live in permanent contact between the most diverse places on the planet, all data confirm that it is also one of the three or four major international languages," says Caffarel.

According to the report, the population reached by Spanish place it as the second language of the world by number of native speakers, the second language of international communication and the third most used over internet, after English and Chinese.

In particular, in the Hispanic world have Spanish as their mother tongue with more than 359.4 million people, among which stands out as one of the most strength with the Hispanic community in the U.S., and Brazil, whose government believes that in a decade, some 30 million people will have this language as a second language.

Spanish is also essential in the dissemination of the results of scientific studies related to Hispanic or Latin America and also there are increases the number of scientific publications in Spanish, in fact, they have increased fivefold since 1998. It is estimated that by 2050 the number of Spanish speakers will reach 550 million people, in relative terms, the report says, the proportion of speakers of Chinese and English will decline for demographic reasons, while Spanish, Hindi and Arabic will continue to experience relative growth.

"If trends do not change in three or four generations, 10 percent of the world population will speak in Spanish," predicts the report, which estimated that the first country is the U.S. (in 2050 over 132 million people will speak it, almost triple the 46.7 million today).

Thus, at present, there are more than 14 million students worldwide who have this language as a foreign language (among 86 countries surveyed do not have Spanish as an official language). The most studied today in order, is English, French, Spanish and German.

The report also details that some 237,000 students traveled to Spain to learn Spanish in 2007-more than 17 percent from Erasmus grants, and the Cervantes Institute recorded an annual growth of 21 percent enrollment of students for Spanish, with 172,185 accounted for in the 2006/2007 academic year. In addition, the image of the Spanish language is linked to the international spread of a culture of quality.