I Believe that Children are our Future

There are 52 countries that speak English but only 7 of them inhabit a majority of English speakers.

Here are 22 countries that speak Spanish:
Andorra , Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela

In most of these countries, more than half of the population speaks Spanish.

What it boils down to is that there are more native Spanish speakers in this world then native English speakers.

The U.S. never took an official language because the founders had visualized practically every single language to be spoken. They were right. It is also true that Mandarin and Hindi are the top languages in the world; meanwhile, Spanish is the language entering the most powerful country in the world.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there will be 59.7 million Spanish speaking people in the U.S. by 2020. Today, there is an estimated 308.5 million people in the US and 35 million of them are native Spanish speakers.

This is not including people who speak Spanish as a second language.

The problem is that neither parents nor schools are requiring their children to speak both languages.

On the school yard, in the U.S., there are children playing together who speak both languages. There are many attempts at different programs of immersion, English or Spanish as a second language but what these children need is both. They need to be educated with both and not denied one. Because Spanish and English have many similarities it is very easy to combine them. This is one of the reasons the U.S. is experiencing ‘Spanglish’. It is being studied and tracked as an evolution to our languages.

To anyone with children, anywhere, especially in the U.S., teach your children Spanish and English. There are hundreds of reasons to encourage this. If for nothing else, it will increase their jobs and their relationships.

It will also give them the opportunity, to gracefully visit, some of 22 beautiful Spanish speaking countries of this world.