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Spanish

español

Introduction

Yo comencé a estudiar español en la escuela cuando era un adolescente. Estudié en Oaxaca, México durante un verano. También viví y trabajé en la República Dominica un año. Español es probablemente mi lengua major. Puedo leer, escribir, y hablar suficientemente bien. Me gustaría continuar practicando y usando mi español.

I began studying Spanish in school when I was a teenager. I studied in Oaxaca, Mexico for one summer. I also lived and worked in the Dominican Republic for a year. Spanish is probably my best language. I can read, write, and speak well enough. I would like to continue practicing and using my Spanish.

At-A-Glance

Native To	Iberian Peninsula
Native Speakers	500 million (Ethnologue, 2021)
Language Family	Indo European / Romance
Dialects	European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, many others.
Writing System	Latin
Spoken In	Mexico, United States, Colombia, Spain, Agentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Equatorial Guinea.
Regulated By	Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española)
Observations	UN Spanish Language Day (April 23)

Web Resources

• U.S. Foreign Service Institute Spanish language resources, including four-volume basic course and other resources.

Open Textbooks

• Diaz, Adriana. (2021). JUNTXS: Introductory Spanish. University of Queensland. [PressBooks]
• Diaz, Adriana. (2021). JUNTXS: Intermediate Spanish. University of Queensland. [PressBooks]
• Hoye, Amber, et al. (2022). Let's Chat! Spanish. Boise State University. [PressBooks]
• Ortiz, Fernando Castro & Giovanni Zimotti. (2021). Salón de clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals. University of Iowa. [PressBooks]

Open Courseware

• Accesso, The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project
• COERLL Language Learning Materials, variety of resources hosted by the University of Texas at Austin
• LanguageGuide.org

Language Learning Apps

• Lectia! developed by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland.
• Mango Languages, online language learning software offered by many libraries.

Further Reading

• Lozano, Rosina. (2018). American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States. University of California Press.
• Nadeau, Jean-Benoit & Julie Barlow. (2014). The Story of Spanish. St. Martin's Griffin.
• Ostler, Nicholas. (2010). Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World. HarperCollins. [Open Library]
• Penny, Ralph. (2002). A History of the Spanish Language. Cambridge University Press. [Internet Archive]
• Pharies, David A. (2015). A Brief History of the Spanish Language (Second Ed.). University of Chicago Press.

References

• Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). (2021). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-fourth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.