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Spanish

Spanish

Summary

Spanish is natively spoken by approximately 487 million people worldwide, primarily in Spain and Latin America, with growing communities in the United States. It is integral to Spanish cultural identity, known for its literature (including works by Cervantes and García Lorca), flamenco music and dance, and diverse cuisines. Written in the Latin alphabet, Spanish grammar features a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, gendered nouns, and a system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, mood, and aspect.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 0

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 16

  • Word Order: SVO

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 5

  • Number of Consonants: 17 - 19

Areas Where Spoken

  • Andorra (44.6%) (36 k)

  • Argentina (official) (96.0%) (44.4 mil)

  • Aruba (Netherlands) (13.7%) (15 k)

  • Belize (46.0%) (186 k)

  • Bolivia (official) (60.7%) (7.42 mil)

  • Brazil (official) (93.2%) (201 mil)

  • Caribbean Netherlands (Netherlands) (11.8%) (3 k)

  • Chile (official) (89.7%) (17.6 mil)

  • Colombia (official) (99.0%) (51.4 mil)

  • Costa Rica (official) (97.5%) (5.05 mil)

  • Cuba (official) (100.0%) (11.2 mil)

  • Dominican Republic (official) (98.0%) (11.0 mil)

  • Ecuador (official) (93.0%) (16.7 mil)

  • El Salvador (official) (96.0%) (6.08 mil)

  • Equatorial Guinea (official) (61.6%) (1.03 mil)

  • Guatemala (official) (69.9%) (12.1 mil)

  • Honduras (official) (94.4%) (9.85 mil)

  • Mexico (official) (90.0%) (115 mil)

  • Nicaragua (official) (95.3%) (6.62 mil)

  • Panama (official) (69.2%) (3.05 mil)

  • Paraguay (official) (55.1%) (3.74 mil)

  • Peru (official) (84.1%) (28.6 mil)

  • Puerto Rico (United States of America) (official) (94.3%) (3.04 mil)

  • Spain (official) (74.0%) (35.4 mil)

  • United States of America (10.7%) (35.7 mil)

  • Uruguay (official) (95.7%) (3.28 mil)

  • US Virgin Islands (16.8%) (18 k)

  • Venezuela (official) (96.9%) (27.4 mil)

  • Western Sahara (20.0%) (130 k)

Resources

Apps

  • Anki

Complete Spanish Step-by-Step: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/321756443 Ultimate Spanish Conjugation Deck: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/638411848



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Documents

Browser Extension


Videos

YouTube Channels for Fun

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YouTube Videos/Playlists for Fun


Movies / TV Shows

  • Chicas del Cable: https://www.netflix.com/title/80100929?source=35:Netflix (Spain Spanish) - Setting is pre-WWII Spain, Madrid, in and surrounding the telephone company. The protagonists are women from various walks of life who meet as co-workers at the telephone company, where they work as switchboard operators. The series contains lots of dramatical elements (crime, passion, love, hate, rivalry, self-doubt, desperation, self-discovery) as well as societal criticism. CW for sex/nudity, violence/DV, war, possible child loss, psychological abuse, gender/body dysmorphia (hope I didn't forget any triggers). I really enjoyed the whole show. Fair warning, you may need tissues for some episodes as topics can get very emotional. Extra tip: Watch with your finger on the space bar to pause as needed as they speak fairly fast. The rewind function is gold, as is the option to switch to different subs for core scenes if you have trouble understanding what is going on. I think with pausing and rewinding, I needed about an hour per episode XD But well worth it!


    • Daughter From Another Mother: https://www.netflix.com/title/81002483?source=35: Netflix (Mexican Spanish) - Plays around with the switch at birth trope which forms an unconventional family. Modern setting and content so it's not as over the top as other spanish shows and quite progressive (one of the main characters is bi, believes a child should be able to decide on her own baptism when she's older, explores sexuality a bit, women's place in the workplace and sexism etc). Only one season so far and not yet renewed. Warning: Ends with a cliffhanger


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