The Spanish Language Is Spoken By Around 500 Million People Worldwide...
The Spanish language is rapidly becoming one of the most widely spoken languages in the world which begs the question..If you are ready to learn a foreign language then why not Spanish?
Who Speaks It And Where?
Stating the obvious here, I know, but it is of course the official language of Spain and it is the official language of all the South American Republics apart from Brazil and French Guyana from the republics of Central America and of Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. In Spain Castillian Spanish is considered pure Spanish.
Why learn To Speak Spanish?
It is estimated that it is the mother tongue of around 320 million people.
Depending on the source of information Spanish is said to be the 2nd or 3rd most popular spoken language on our planet today. There are variations such as Castillion, Valencian, Basque, Galician and Catalan depending on which part of the world you happen to be in.
There is not one all encompassing language, Latin American Spanish, as the differences can be attributed to accent and pronunciation depending on region similar to that of English and American English.
There are many more words borrowed from English in Latin American Spanish than Castllian such as la computadora-a computer . If you prefer to learn Latin American Spanish then there is a section on this here- Latin American