Motivating Statistics About Spanish

As I've mentioned in past posts, sometimes, keeping your motivation level up is the most important thing you can do to achieve your language learning goals. So here are a few "did you knows" (courtesy of the Baltimore Public Library Site):

• Spanish is the official language of 20 countries
• There are more than 30 countries and territories in which Spanish is widely spoken
• Spanish is the third most widely-spoken language in the world? 250 million people speak Spanish as their mother tongue
• Spanish ranks 4th in official language population. 280 million people live in countries where Spanish is the official language