El valor económico del españolEspaña ante el espejo de Polonia

Abstract

This study uses the case of Poland to explore the economic value of the Spanish language. As the communities of Spanish and Polish speaking people in each country are very similar, the problems of macro approaches are analysed. The paper takes into account the differences between the demand of both languages in the home countries as well as in the rest of the world, and presents the main data on the rol of both countries in the internationalization of university studies, and specially in the Erasmus program. The main conclusion is that important benefits draw on the belonging to a huge community of more than 400 million of Spanish speaking people and the presence of an important demand to learn the language.