国内经常把西班牙语称为“小语种”,但它真的不小。

西语现在已经是全球第三大语言了,仅次于英语和汉语,拉丁美洲的国家大部分都讲西语。

美国也有庞大的西语人口,比西班牙本国多得多。

说起来,除开英语之外,西语应该是欧洲语言里最简单的,很容易入门,单词本身就是音标,看着就能读,复数形式甚至直接和英语一样+s。

By number of native speakers, Spanish is the second biggest language in the world (behind only Mandarin). By total speakers, it's at number three. Spanish is also the second most-common language in the United States, which is home to a whopping 40 million native speakers. This makes the U.S. the second-biggest Spanish-speaking country in the world, behind only Mexico – and it's predicted that, within our lifetimes, it'll overtake Mexico and become the largest.
按母语者的数量来算,西班牙语是全球第二大的语言(仅次于中文普通话);按全部使用者来算,它排第三(前面是普通话和英语)。西班牙语也是美国的第二大语言,美国有4000万人的母语是西班牙语;这让美国成为全球第二大的西语国家,仅次于墨西哥——而且,美国预计会在我们有生之年超过墨西哥成为第一大西语国家。

 

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