How can learning Spanish help me?

1. Spanish is spoken in 21 countries! It is the SECOND largest language in the WORLD! (right behind Mandarin Chinese!)

2. You will often get paid more professionally or be more likely to be hired if you are fluent in Spanish!

3. Impress your bilingual friends at Willamette High School!

4. Having bilingual skills or traveling looks amazing on your college applications!

5. Use your Spanish to make friends with international visitors, and then go visit them!

6. You don't even need to travel to speak and hear Spanish. There are 41 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. and you can hear Spanish on the bus, at the store and in the streets of Eugene!

7. It's a practical language that you can hear and use for the rest of your life!

8. It's one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn because it has several cognates (words that are very similar in both languages) Baseball=beisbol

9. Once you speak two languages, your third language is much easier to learn! And knowing Spanish will make learning similar languages like French, Italian, or Portuguese much easier!

10. Multi-lingual people have more highly developed connections in their brains, which means less risk of alzheimers and dimentia.

11. You can interact directly with people in 21 countries, on three continents instead of needing a translator.