Learning Spanish

This question gets asked a lot, exactly what are the advantages in learning Spanish as a second language? It’s a perfectly good question and one I think that should be answered. For me, personally, it was all about impressing my family, as funny as that sounds. I never planned to do business in Spain, nor did I plan to live their or have Spanish friends, but, I did go their on holiday. A lot, a very lot, almost every summer. After learning Spanish for just a few months then next time I went away, Seville I believe it was, I was able to speak to shop keepers and the hotel staff in their native tongue which seriously impressed my family and friends who were away on holiday with us at the time. There is no better way to learn Spanish than to try speaking it in Spain. In the classroom, when you make a mistake, you often forget what that mistake was - but, when you make a mistake speaking to a store owner or someone official, you sure do remember it for a long time. You also get the Spanish tongue down very, very quickly!