i am going to school to be an elementary school teacher, and my dream is to travel and maybe live for a few months in italy. i want to take italian but is it more practical to take a language such as spanish? is it worth it to follow my dream or take spanish for my educational future?
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Spanish won't really help that much with becoming an elementary school teacher. Italian will probably help the same amount, but it mainly depends on where you are located. If you are in a area, like New York City, both can help around equal amounts.
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follow your dream unless your planning to become aspanish teacher ADIOS hahaha
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spanish will probably be the most useful language you could learn as an elementary school teacher. most kids in ESL speak spanish, as far as i know.
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I believe that you should take spanish.Now a days the US is catering to spanish people (not in a bad way), but we are seeing a lot of more spanish people in our schools and communities. If you get a student who only speaks spanish then you could communicate and help him learn spanish. You could also get paid more to be billingual. Going to Italy for a couple of months isn't worth taking italian. You should really think about your future.
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Why don't you learn Spanish at school and Italian by yourself? It'd going to be a very instructive experience: you could even enjoy confronting the two languages, analyze similarities ("Hey! In Italian that word is just the same as in Spanish!) and differences ("Hey! The same word have completely different meaning in Italian and Spanish!"). And if you manage to do, you almost know Portuguese, as well :)
