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Originally Posted by poli
For any English speaker, studying Spanish vocabulary will improve your
English vocabulary and make you an amateur etimologist whether you like it or not. 
Intermediate knowledge of Spanish will make it very possible to read simple Portuguese (though perhaps you still may not understand much spoken Portuguese). The same goes for understanding Italian but much less so.
It can be a great intellectual excercise for English speakers. In other words, it makes you more worldly. |
I agree with you,Poli, learning a foreign language is a great intellectual exercise for anybody, no matter where they come from or what they are studying. And as you say, it makes you more open-minded and helps you understand other peoples and other cultures.
