Introduction

Learning Spanish actually significantly will improve your understanding of English. If you are native English speaker and had solid grammar before learning Spanish, but this was more through osmosis. framework for that, and you will be better able to explain to people learning English why we say things the way we say them, so your grasp of English is also stronger because you’ve studied Spanish. It depends. If you are a native speaker of English, it seems unlikely that it would do anything other than help your grasp of English. If you are also learning English, it’s possible that along the way, there would be some interference and you might confuse patterns in Spanish with patterns in English.

You will find that learning Spanish and other languages will increase your competency in understanding English, particularly because you have to understand how Spanish works, and you can see how it’s different from English. It gives you a deeper appreciation and understanding to work from.

For example, in English we tend to use gerunds and the -ing form of verbs a lot, yet we don’t have much of a subjunctive or conditional mood to work with, so you’ve had to understand why that is in English and be able to understand the deeper meanings of phrases in English when you need to translate to Spanish, which tends to use the infinitive more, and contains a full subjunctive mood in several tenses.

However, sometimes you have to struggle to find a word that you  want in English, or it takes me a bit longer to recall. I think this might be a trade-off occasionally for knowing more language–you have a larger register of knowledge to work from, so your brain spends a little longer running through the linguistics of what you’re trying to say.

Practical Reasons why Spanish didn’t affect English :

• If you can learn Spanish, you’ll have a head start in learning the other Latin-based languages such as French and Italian. And it will even help you learn Russian and German since they too have Indo-European roots and have some characteristics (such as gender and extensive conjugation) that are present in Spanish but not English.
• Much of its vocabulary is similar to English, and written Spanish is almost completely phonetic: Look at almost any Spanish word and you can tell how it is pronounced. Basic grammar is straightforward enough that you can have meaningful communication after only a few lessons.

Who would you be able to speak with?

• There are twenty-five countries in the world where Spanish is spoken either as an official or a primary language.
• The U.S. is the third largest Spanish speaking country in the world.
• The Hispanic population in the United States has grown by 60 per cent in just one decade.
• At present there are over 37 million Hispanics in the U.S., representing 11 per cent of the total population.

Academic Reasons:

• The study of Spanish helps with the understanding of English grammar.
• Studying Spanish helps students expand their vocabulary.
• Students enrolled in the study of languages including Spanish have higher SAT scores for each year of language study than students who do not study a foreign language.
• Learning a new language increases problem-solving skills and improves memory, self-discipline, and self-esteem.
• Spanish is the language of many masterpieces which can be accessed in the original version by speakers of Spanish.

Practical Reasons:

• If you can learn Spanish, you’ll have a head start in learning the other Latin-based languages such as French and Italian. And it will even help you learn Russian and German, since they too have Indo-European roots and have some characteristics (such as gender and extensive conjugation) that are present in Spanish but not English.
• Much of its vocabulary is similar to English, and written Spanish is almost completely phonetic: Look at almost any Spanish word and you can tell how it is pronounced. Basic grammar is straightforward enough that you can have meaningful communication after only a few lessons.