Spanish is a language that many people can benefit from knowing. The best time to start learning a new language is when the student is young. Languages are easier to pick up on at earlier ages. It is difficult to say why anyone would want to live his or her life only knowing one language. In fact, that kind of seems sad. Hopefully you will find that you love learning Spanish and want to share that with all the people you might happen to meet over the course of your life.