Why learn Spanish?

Why Learn Spanish?

-Learning Spanish will help in every business or job opportunity. Anyone who can speak Spanish improves their marketability, and a business that can expand their market to Spanish speakers increases profits.

-Learning Spanish can open the door to travel throughout Latin America, Spain, and around the world.

-Learning Spanish also will accompany learning about the cultures that speak it. It can be tremendously rewarding and exciting to see how different people live and do things differently.

Interesting Spanish facts:

-Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the U.S. (50 million Spanish speakers)

-Spanish has the 2nd largest population of native speakers in the world. (239 million Spanish Speakers, behind Mandarin)

-Spanish is the 3rd most spoken language in the world. (500 million Spanish speakers, behind Mandarin and English)

-"Spanish" actually refers to 4 distinct languages: Galician, Basque, Catalan, and Castillian (castellano, en espanol). Castillian is by far the most common and what we know as "Spanish."

-There are 20 countries where Spanish is the official language:

Mexico, Columbia, Argentina, Spain, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Panama, and Equatorial Guinea