Spanish Language Facts

How many Spanish speakers are there in the WORLD?

• 100 million

• 400 million

• 1 billion

• 10 million

Spanish is the ____ most used language on the Internet.

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 4th

Spanish is the only language with ___.

• upside-down question marks

• periods at the end of sentences

• grammar rules

• special letters not found in other languages

About 8% of the words in Spanish come from _____.

• French

• English

• Arabic

• Chinese

Spanish has two ways to say "I love you." What are they?

• Te quiero.

• Te amo.

• Te odio.

• Te detesto.

Spanish is the official language of ___ countries.

• 2

• 12

• 22

• 32

In Spanish, the language is called ____, which means "comes from Spain".

• español

• inglés

• japonés

• alemán

Some Spanish words are very similar to words in French, Italian or Portuguese because they are all ______.

• Germanic languages

• Romance languages

• Midieval languages

• Icelandic languages

In Spanish, each letter has its own sound (which makes it easy to learn how to pronounce and spell!) This makes Spanish a ______.

• phonetic language

• communciative language

• dead language

• alphabetic language

The earliest written texts were written about _____ years ago.

• 500

• 300

• 1000

• 750