Spanish is one of the most widely used languages in the world. More than 500 million people speak it, and it is the official language of 21 countries.
Spanish originated in the Middle Ages and evolved from various dialects of the Vulgar Latin language spoken by Roman soldiers in the Iberian Peninsula.
Spanish includes over 5,000 words derived from Arabic and words from Basque, Catalan, Galician, and other pre-Roman languages.
Spanish has two officially recognized forms: Castilian or Castellano and Latin American Spanish.
Spanish is the world’s second most commonly spoken language, after Mandarin Chinese.
The Spanish verb conjugation system is relatively straightforward and unimposing.
Spanish is the second most studied language in the United States, after English.
Much of the Spanish vocabulary contains expressions and words of Latin American origin.
Over 85 million people in the United States speak Spanish as their first language.
Spanish also includes grammar rules, such as the gender-based “the” - used throughout the language.
Spanish has simple and complex tenses, with simple tenses including present, preterite, and imperfect, while complex tenses include the present progressive and present perfect tenses.
