I know three languages English , French and Spanish.
Awesome! Spanish is considered the second-most spoken native language. How long have you been fluent in Spanish?
For about a year now. Which countries use Spanish?
Cool! Well it originated in the Castile region of Spain. Some other countries include Chile, Columbia, and Bolivia!
How many people in the world speak Spanish?
There are hundreds of millions of native speakers in the world today! Have you spoken spanish with native speakers?
No, but my mother speaks a little bit of Spanish. When did Spanish start to go global?
of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent city of the Kingdom of Castile, in the 13th century. Beginning in 1492, the Spanish language was taken to the viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire, most notably to the Americas, as well as territories in Africa, Oceania and the Philippines.
A 1949 study by Italian-American linguist Mario Pei, analyzing the degree of difference from a language's parent (Latin,
languages Spanish.
Spanish is the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese. Spanish was used in the Spanish Empire and today is in use in Spain, in Latin American countries (except Brazil, French Guyana, Suriname, Guiana, Haiti and other Caribbean islands), and is spoken in many parts of the United States, particularly in Florida and the states which border Mexico. Indeed, by 2016 Spanish was the most widely taught non-English language in American secondary schools and schools of higher education