Because competitions among English majors is increasingly fierce. students tend to choose other foreign languages as their major. I don't know whether Spanish is popular or not.. but French, Japanese, and Thai language also seemed popular nowadays.

I think more and more chinese people learning English ,Form the age of 10 or even earlier.we have to learn English.Good helpless for us .I am going to pass CET-4(College English Test Band 4) in this December .If you not pass CET-4, some enterprise won't give you a job <.亚历山大！（Alexander） Sounds like（压力山大）meaning the Pressure is greater than the mountain. >

in addition to, maybe it's more special