El mundo español Jack Miley

1. El mundo españolJack Miley

2. Spanish is the official language in 20 Countries. • 1. Argentina • 2. Bolivia • 3. Chile • 4. Colombia • 5. Costa Rica • 6. Cuba • 7. Dominican Republic Spanish speaking countries

3. 8. Ecuador • 9. El Salvador • 10. Equatorial Guinea • 11. Guatemala • 12. Honduras • 13. México • 14. Nicaragua Spanish speaking countries

4. 15. Panama • 16. Paraguay • 17. Peru • 18. Spain • 19. Uruguay • 20. Venezuela Spanish speaking countries

5. Spanish is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages and the official language in 20 countries. It is spoken by nearly half a billion people worldwide, and in the United States more than 35 million people consider Spanish their mother tongue. • As a result of Christopher Columbus’ discoveries and the subsequent colonization of South and Central America in the late 15th century, Spanish spread across the whole continent (except for a few countries such as Brazil). • There are approximately 407 million people speaking Spanish as a native language, making it the second-most-spoken language by number of native speakers after Mandarin. • It also has 60 million speakers as a second language, and 20 million students as a foreign language. Spanish world wide

6. 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). • Spanish is sometimes called español and sometimes castellano • Spanish is one of the world's most phonetic languages. If you know how a word is spelled, you can almost always know how it is pronounced Spanish world wide