Why Spanish and Portuguese? As the saying goes, to have another language is to possess a second soul. For Spanish and Portuguese, that would be an impressively extended second soul, a soul shared with more than 500 million Spanish-speakers and close to 300 million Portuguese-speakers worldwide—a sundry multitude of fellow human beings, consumers and producers, political agents, cultural artificers, and neighbors. Study Spanish and Portuguese to get intimately acquainted with these diverse souls, and to acquire a second one of your own.