9 Curiosities about Spanish that you didn't know After reading these 9 curiosities about Spanish that you probably don't know, you will want to learn Spanish even more 🙂 1. One of the most spoken languages Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. Every year, the
After reading these 9 curiosities of Spanish that you probably don't know, you will want to learn Spanish much more 🙂
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. Every year, the Cervantes Institute publishes a yearbook where it talks about the health enjoyed by the Spanish, well, according to its latest yearbook, More than 577 million people speak Spanish in the world! Furthermore, it is estimated that by the middle of this century, 745 million people will be Spanish speakers. Did you know that currently, almost 22 million people are Spanish students?
According to the Reference Corpus of Current Spanish (CREA), some of the nouns that Spaniards use the most are: life, years, government, home, time, world, work and people. As you can see, these words symbolize very well some of the interests and concerns of the Spanish people.
The 2 longest words in Spanish are electroencephalographer (23 letters), person specialized in electroencephalography, a science that studies the recording of brain bioelectric activity and the word sternocleidomastoid (22 letters), neck muscle.
One of the most surprising curiosities of Spanish are the words recognize, beings, we submit and we are, among others, which are palindromes, that is, they read the same forward and backward.
According to the Census Bureau, in the year 2060, the United States will be the second country in number of Spanish speakers. Currently, it is the most studied language at all levels of education in this country. In fact, students enrolled in university courses in the Spanish language exceed those in other languages.
the word maybe comes from latin quisapit, which meant “who knows.” Therefore, we use this adverb to express doubt or possibility. Over time, at maybe original, an -s was added at the end due to similarity with other adverbs such as in addition, never, more, while... Currently, both forms are accepted and the form is usually used maybe ending in -s when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel:
Maybe it's all a surprise.
Maybe I'll finish work early.
Surely you have ever listened to a group of Spanish friends talking and you have been surprised by the number of words they are able to say in a few minutes. The researcher at the University of Lyon, François Pellegrino, conducted an experiment in which he brought together 59 people to read the same texts aloud in 7 different languages. The results of his research were that the Spanish is the fastest language because it allows you to pronounce more syllables per second.
In Spanish, we can find words that have more than one accent. When we write a message to a friend and lengthen the vowels of some words to express emotion, if the vowel needs an accent, we must accent it in all repetitions:
My friends are already here!
Mommaaaaaaa! Come, please.
Although Spanish, unlike others, is a language that does not present major pronunciation difficulties, it has some words that are very complicated to pronounce, even for native speakers. Do you dare to try to pronounce them?
We hope that these curiosities about Spanish have been interesting to you. If you want to discover many more, we are waiting for you at Hispania, Spanish school
Written by Rita Rodriguez Varela for Hispania, Spanish school.