In recent years there has been a real boom in interest in learning Spanish and it is easy to understand why. Spanish is one of the world’s major languages, alongside English and Chinese, and is spoken as a first or second language by a huge number of people across the world. There is a real demand in many areas of commerce for Spanish speakers. In schools, there has been an enormous increase in the number of people studying Spanish at all levels, including at A level, and it looks set to become a more and more popular subject in future years.