Where will your Spanish skills lead you?

If you speak Spanish as well as you can teach it (with a little orientation and a previous formation), your professional horizon will be wider than what you certainly could expect. Indeed, when someone has English as his mother tongue, he or she can move on everywhere around the world and easily find a good job as a native English teacher. This is similar to when someone speaks Spanish - as his/her mother language. We must take into account that when we talk about Spanish language, we are talking about the third most spoken language (after English and Chinese) and the second most studied language in the whole world (after English only). The combination of being able to speak and to be able to teach both languages (English and Spanish) in countries where they are not spoken – not as first languages - is really powerful. Moreover, in those countries where people only speak English, if people want to stay in their country and teach a language as their way of living, Spanish becomes for sure, the best option.

This means of course that when someone speaks Spanish fluently, being trained to become a Spanish teacher can be a great idea. Which advantages does the training to be a Spanish teacher in Spain have? Obviously, learning from a Spanish school which is accredited by the "Instituto Cervantes" for its high quality teaching of Spanish, in the region of Spain where the purest Spanish is spoken, is going to be very well looked upon. Your formation will be recognized throughout the whole world: Salamanca is a city of reference in the world of Spanish teaching and that will give real value to your training.

The rising of the Spanish language – as well as its projection in the future - is spoken about a lot. Apart from studies and data, there are many reasons which can convince anyone of the usefulness to begin to learn Spanish. To everyone who is thinking about training to become Spanish teacher, the following could be some good points to convince everyone to start learning Spanish (although probably not necessary):

• Spanish language is the second most spoken mother tongue (almost 500 million people have this language as their mother tongue, after Chinese).
• Spanish is the second most studied language, after English, and it's really ahead in comparison to the following languages such as French and German. At the moment, there are more than 20 million students who are studying Spanish.
• Spanish is the second most used language in international communication (in the commercial, economic and political area), after English.
• It is already the second language in several internet fields: on Twitter it just became the second most used language and on Facebook it already was, with more than 80 million users. In general we can say that Spanish is the third language on the Internet, after English and Chinese, but it's clearly the language that can count on a better growth: it increased with a percentage of 800 in the last 10 years, in respect of for example the rise of 300% of the English; in certain large language regions such as Latin America, there was already a growth of 1200% in the last 10 years. In fact, because Latin America presents 90% of the Hispanic speakers and because the introduction of the Internet (the part of the population that has access to the Internet) is much lower over there than the European average according to what people expect of Latin America (40% in Latin America in relation to 75% in Europe), they hope that this international growth keeps being as strong during the following years.
• The Spanish language can count on a huge advantage in respect of it's two competitors, namely English and Chinese: it has a great stability and equality, which is the result of, on the one hand well organised work and on the other hand the good language academies in the Hispanic countries. This allows each Spanish speaking person to understand and to be understood perfectly in any part of the world.
• They have calculated that by 2030, an estimated 7,5% of the population will speak Spanish. This percentage is more remarkable than the ones of the other languages: 2,2% for Russian, 1,4% for French, 1,2% for German... In 3 or 4 generations 10% of the world population will communicate in Spanish.
• In 2050, the United States will be the country with the largest number of Spanish speaking people in the world. Today Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking country
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So there is no doubt: Spanish is a language with a great future. Learning it is a good idea and learning to teach it could be an even better idea.