{"id":202,"date":"2026-02-22T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:00:57","slug":"espanol-o-francais-learn-a-language-because-you-love-it-not-because-its-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Espa\u00f1ol o fran\u00e7ais? Learn a language because you love it, not because it\u2019s useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2026\/feb\/16\/espanol-o-francaise-learn-a-language-because-you-love-it-not-because-its-useful\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Espa\u00f1ol o fran\u00e7ais? Learn a language because you love it, not because it\u2019s useful | Letters\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e561d71ac90234f223677d52270544173383af21\/207_0_2195_1757\/master\/2195.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=630&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&amp;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&amp;overlay-width=100p&amp;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&amp;enable=upscale&amp;s=6e7edc987ab01c8b21e63a36bd4a4816\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.theguardian.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Espa\u00f1ol o fran\u00e7ais? Learn a language because you love it, not because it\u2019s useful | Letters<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Letters: Readers respond to an article by Gary Nunn who says learning Spanish has never been cooler<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}