Those are the priceless benefits of a truly successful education, for at its core, the ultimate goal of second language learning is to produce students who are measurably better educated than they could have been without it. All of the statements above apply to the learning of both modern and classical languages such as Latin and Greek. In some very significant ways, however, the learning of classical languages differs from the learning of modern languages. In modern languages, direct communication with native speakers is the ultimate goal. In Latin, however, communicative skills are developed in Latin and at the same time communicative skills in English are consciously developed.
Students learn Spanish primarily to communicate in Spanish with Spanish-speaking people.