By far the most popular additional language for people from the U.S. and Canada is Spanish. There are several good reasons for this preference.

There are over 40 million people in the U.S. who speak Spanish. Of these, some 14 million do not speak English, or do not speak it very well. So one reason to learn Spanish is to be able to communicate with your neighbors!

Another good reason is that Spanish is arguably the third or fourth most popular language, spoken by the most people, in the World. If you know English and Spanish that opens up most of South America and Western Europe to you.

You can have kids learning Spanish very easily, if you have good learning materials for them.

Forget about sitting in a classroom, bored, conjugating verbs. Today you don’t have to attend classes, spend a lot of money or time. You can download an interactive audio learning course in mp3 format, take copies with you wherever you go and study your lessons anywhere, anytime! The best way to learnSpanish is to learn conversational Spanish. There the emphasis is on understanding and making yourself understood. Think about it. You knew a great deal of English before you ever even knew what the word conjugation meant!

The learning materials needed to learn Spanish with simple conversational spanish lessons can be downloaded from the Internet for less than a hundred dollars.

To master Spanish, check out the reviews of down-loadable learn Spanish courses, pick a good learning course and get started learning converstional Spanish. Learn to converse first, just as you learned to communicate in English. Later you can get more precise, add vocabulary, the rules of grammar and verb conjugation.

- John R. Olsen