I posted something similar earlier but it wasn’t really answered adequately. My question is, as a BS engineering major, is it necessary to minor in a language in order to study it or can I just simply take the language I want without having to make it my minor?
You can just take classes as you go. If you take 6, you should automatically qualify for a minor.
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Not necessarily. For a minor, many colleges will require some literature courses. Additionally, introductory language courses generally will not count for either a major or a minor. Of course each college is free to set up its own parameters as to what constitutes a minor.
But to answer the original question, assuming you can fit the classes in, sure, you can take as many as you want without declaring it as a major or minor.
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I just answer the first part: “is it necessary to minor in a language in order to study it.”
As an immigrant who can be considered as fluent in second language English, and from many books I have read, I would say that most of the people who master a language succeed outside academic education. You don’t really need to minor in language in order to learn a language. I have learned English from real life. When I first came here, all I knew was only grammar things. I couldn’t speak even a word. I couldn’t understand what people said, so my listening skill is really bad. Reading was a hard work for me because I could not understand immediately after I read a word. My writing was not natural, and it was really the worst writing. But as the time has gone by, I have learned a lot from native speakers. I started talking to people more than usual. I got a lot of writing project in high school and college. I have lived here for two and a half years, so I can approximately understand 80% what people say. I just require that people do not speak so fast like they rap. Then I can understand what thay say.
That is my story. If you want to learn a language for the purpose of working with those native speakers, you should live in their country. It only takes around 2 years to be fluent the language in country you want to learn it.
No, you can just take Spanish classes as general electives. Make sure you fulfil your distribution requirements.