No matter what your career plans may be, odds are that your ability to speak Spanish will be a useful personal as well as professional skill that you take with you. Due to our “shrinking world,” it is now more important than ever to know more than one language. Moreover, the U.S.’s proximity to the Hispanic world and involvement in trade agreements have made Spanish an increasingly useful language.
It is also important to realize that many colleges and universities require a minimum of the equivalent of two years of HS language classes for admission and four years of HS language for graduation.