Fun Facts about Learning Spanish

1. Spanish has at least 3 million native speakers each in 44 countries, making it the fourth mostly geographically widely spoken language behind English (112 countries), French (60) and Arabic (57).

2. With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world’s No. 2 language in terms of how many people speak it as their first language. It is slightly ahead of English (328 million), but far behind Mandarin Chinese (1.2 billion).

3. Approximately 100 million people speak Spanish as a second language.

4. Spanish is expected to be the first language of 50% of the population of the United States within 50 years.

5. Spanish is one of the world’s most phonetic languages; which means if you can spell it you can pronounce it!

6.  Because English and Spanish share many words of Latin origin, you will already be able to recognise more than 3,000 Spanish words!