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El mundo espaolJack Miley

Spanish speaking countriesSpanish 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 countries8. Ecuador 9. El Salvador 10. Equatorial Guinea 11. Guatemala 12. Honduras 13. Mxico 14. Nicaragua

Spanish speaking countries15. Panama 16. Paraguay 17. Peru 18. Spain 19. Uruguay 20. Venezuela

Spanish world wideSpanish is one of the worlds 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 wideSpanish 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 espaol 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