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out about each country.
- Spanish is the second world language as a vehicle of international
communication and the third as an international language of politics,
economics and culture .
- About 330 million people in the world speak Spanish as their first
language.
- The demand for Spanish courses has doubled worldwide in ten years .
- Spanish is the official language in 21 countries .
- Approximately another 100 million people speak Spanish as second language.
- In the United States 13% of the population speak Spanish as their first
language.
- In the United States and Canada, Spanish is the most popular foreign
language to learn.
- The Latin-American countries are experiencing constant economic growth and
because of that, are becoming more important as trading partners. A number of
large Latin-American countries are on the verge of signing the NAFTA (North
American Free Trade Agreement), set up by the United States, Canada and
Mexico.
