¿Por qué estudiar letras modernas y lenguas extranjeras?

Abstract

The following work discusses, briefly, the importance of learning foreign languages
and literature, starting from the personal experience in relation to the Portuguese letters. In this essay subjects like language and its cultural implications; the knowledge of the other and the recognition of diverse identities and linguistic realities that account for the existence human beings in individual and social levels, are considered. It also outlines the importance of the recent addition of Portuguese letters in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM in response to the need to learn and teach Portuguese language and literature in Mexico.