The biggest, most important reason why
anyone might want to learn to speak Spanish?
Why, to speak to native speakers of Spanish,
of course!
Sometimes people don’t understand “the real
reason” I want to learn so many languages. They look at me as if I’m daft
because, well “everyone speaks English.” When I point out the fallacy of this
argument they tend to say something like, “well, then they should learn to speak English.” Of course they
should. Why put the onus on yourself when you can simply stand around waiting
for the rest of the world to catch up with you and what you want, even if it is
to simply sit on your couch all day playing video games. Someday this will all
catch up with us…Oh wait; it already has done some of that. Unfortunately they
haven’t felt the full effects of globalization and an ever increasing global
marketplace where a majority of the world is not only hungry (and often quite
literally) but also very willing to work and work hard to get ahead.
Because it sucks to be poor and it sucks to be hungry and it sucks to be
homeless. They will learn English.
And then they will take your job for a
fraction of what you were making–before the layoffs and the cut backs. Because
the nature of business is to make money.
What better way to make money than to cut
expenses in the form of cheaper labor and no benefits packages whatsoever? Pay
attention people; your life is not nearly as secure and comfortable as you may
think it is.
My apologies to any readers who are not in the
United States but I’ve seen a lot of changes in the past several decades and
most of it has not been good. Unfortunately most people seem content to wear
blinders and ignore the reality that is all around them, assuming that the
people who are losing their jobs somehow deserve it. Some do but many don’t.
Even worse, some employers are hanging on to their worst employees in a
subversive attempt to drive good employees away. Because if you have
constant turnover, no one gets raises and you can continue to pay new employees
less than you were paying the old employees. And with poor leadership who wants
to stay and deal with incompetency every single day?
My advice is to learn another language.
Spanish is a really good language to learn for many reasons and here Lindsay Dow
from “Lindsay Does Languages” tells you about nine of them. Watch her now:
