A short story about Spanish language
Around 442 million native speakers speak Spanish in the world, and 550 million if we consider students and speakers with some ability to communicate. With a presence in the 5 continents, and one of the most spoken languages in the world. Study Spanish is not just for academic purposes like read The Quixote of La Mancha. Is a language in vogue nowadays, with many turistic places to visit. Presence of Spanish around the world. Source Wikipedia. But before all that. Where it comes from? The word Español or Spanish comes from the old Latin word Hispania and it means "Land of rabbits". Name given by the Roman Empire to a territory now known as Spain. The spoken Latin influenced the local languages in grammar, syntaxis, and vocabulary their new annexed provinces, so after their fall, new languages emerged not too different each other, known as Romance languages. But this not applies to German and English were belongs to another branch. That is the reason due...