In the US we are going to have to start teach spanish on a wider scale
This language is of little use actually where I live in the US.
Languages are also not required in the public schools here, which is just as well considering you'd have a hard time choosing the most appropriate. And that is going to be quite different based on where you live in the country. Where I live, Hmong would be the better choice, as that is the vast majority of immigrants. The US has such a large variety of immigrants, that bring such a varied amount of languages, it would be hard to learn all of these.
Its a shame that language is not being passed down anymore here, my great-great-grandparents were full German, and my husbands great-great-grandparents full Swedish. Yet neither of us know a single word.