US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico has more

According to a new study released by the famous Cervantes Institute, the United States is now the second largest Spanish speaking country in the world after Mexico.

According to the report, the United States has 41 million Spanish-speaking indigenous people and 11.6 million bilinguals, mostly Spanish-speaking immigrant children. This brings America ahead of Colombia (48 million) and Spain (46 million), second only to Mexico (122 million).

The source cited in the report is the US Census Bureau, which is estimated to speak 138 million Spanish by 2050, accounting for about a third of the population in Spain.

By state, the former colonies in the south and southwestern part of Spain are most concentrated, with New Mexico state 47%, followed by California State, Texas State (38%) and Arizona State (30%) . Approximately 18% of New Yorkers speak Spanish and only 3% of West Virginians speak Spanish. Perhaps surprisingly, over 6% of Alaska people speak Spanish.

According to reports, Spanish is a living language including an estimated 595 million Spanish speakers around the world, with 470 million local people and language ability among them.

Founded in 1991, Cervantes College is aimed at advertising abroad in Spain, and over 200,000 students have registered for the course last year. Currently, 21 million people are learning Spanish, the United States has 8 million learning languages, followed by Brazil and France.

The report adds that two-thirds of Spain's related GDP comes from two areas, North America (USA, Canada, Mexico) and the European Union.

Among them, while Latin America accounted for 22%, they accounted for 78%. According to the calculation, the Spanish speaker accounts for 2% of the world's GDP.

The Human Development Index ranks Spanish as the second most important language on Earth. In addition to English, it is the second language after Mandarin. Also, although it is the third most widely used language on the Internet, less than 8% of Internet traffic is Spanish. According to the report, Spanish is the second most common language on Twitter in London and New York. It is ranked second on Facebook a lot later than English, much earlier than Facebook's third language, Portuguese.

But why is Spanish so conspicuous in this election cycle? About 52 million people speak Spanish in the United States. For example, than Spain and Colombia. Indeed, America is only behind Mexico in terms of the number of speakers speaking Spanish. This raises a big problem: Why does America have so many Spanish users? "Transition" may be a direct response to the above question. After all, in the last century the United States accepted immigrants almost everywhere. Even small languages ​​like Poland were rare in the United States after the Second World War. However, existing immigrants from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic are not the only reasons to have a Spanish name in many parts of South America - or 20 years ago Los Angeles Do you think that it became Los Angeles?

The news is persuasive and shocking. America is now the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Mexico. There are 41 million Spanish native speakers and more than 11.6 million bilinguals, over Colombia and Spain. And it is expected that the Spaniards will occupy one third of the people and become the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. Mark Lopez, director of Hispanic research at Pew Research Center, says that more than three quarters of third generation Latin Americans are "led by the UK." Something. Over 80% of Hispanics believe that they need to learn English to succeed in the United States