For those that speak Spanish..

[LPNtoRNin2016OH, LPN]

Interested in opinions. I would like to learn Spanish out of personal interest and for job prospects in the future. If I did more of an online course in it, and not an actual college course, would this still be acceptable to put on resumes? I could minor in it later on but they do not offer it at my associate campus, when I go for my bachelors it's available, but that will be some time off...I know they are programs like Rosetta Stone but the reviews can be mixed and I do not want to drop a lot of money to only speak a few sentences....

[SquishyRN, BSN, RN]

You can list Spanish under skills in your resume. It wouldn't matter to employers at all whether you received college credit for it or not as long as you spoke the language. And you don't need to drop tons of money on those language programs like Rosetta Stone. There are tons of free or cheap resources available online and apps for your phone.

Before I started working in ER I didn't speak a lick of Spanish. At best I could say "Hola" and count to 10. In our ER, however, we have so many Spanish speaking only patients that I might go through an entire day without getting a single English speaking patient. I used a medical Spanish app for the basics needed to get through a work day, and now learn the conversational stuff a little bit at a time through my interactions with patients. I've been working in ER for a year now and would have no qualms about writing atleast "Spanish - limited working proficiency" on my resume.