• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Cursos Profesores Español ELE
  • English
    • Spanish

Training courses for
teachers of Spanish
as a foreign language

 
 
 
  • Accommodation
  • Activities
  • Granada
  • Prices
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • iNMSOL
  • Non-native teachers
  • Instituto Cervantes
  • Language test

Spanish – a living language

24 August, 2017 por Rocío Leave a Comment

As Spanish school, not only for the teaching of Spanish as foreign language but also as training center for Spanish teachers, we are very interested in any news regarding the beautiful Spanish language. So, here we inform you about the newest report the Instiuto Cervantes has released and which contains some interesting conclusions.

 

Spanish – the second language in the world

 

The Instiuto Cervantes has published its annual report about the Spanish language “El español: una lengua viva” (Spanish – a living language), like it usually does around these dates.

 

“Spanish is after the Mandarin Chinese the second language in the world when it comes to the number of native speakers, and it is also the second language in a global calculation (native speakers + limited competence + Spanish students).” That is the conclusion drawn by the report of 2017 about the Spanish language by Instituto Cervantes.

Different representative numbers are analyzed in this study about the situation of the Spanish language around the globe, such as the number of Spanish speaking people, the number of students who study Spanish as foreign language and the situation of Spanish teaching in the different educational systems. Also, the importance of Spanish in the fields of economy, social networks and internet, science and culture is a point of interest in the report.

 

 

The results about Spanish as foreign language are quite positive: in general numbers (and estimated calculations) Spanish is with 21 million students the second most studied language in the world after English, although it still has to compete for this second rank with French and Mandarin Chinese. It’s interesting that of all the countries, English speaking countries show the most interest in Spanish as foreign language, above all the United States and the UK.

It seems that Spanish has become quite popular in recent years and we hope that this trend will continue! What good news for all of us who are working in the Spanish teaching sector!

Filed Under: Blog

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Centro Acreditado por el Instituto Cervantes
Certificado Escuela ELE segura COVID-19

Enroll in our courses

Inscripción Nativos
Inscription
More info
         
  • Legal Notice
  • Privacy and Cookies
Instituto Cervantes
Asociación de Escuelas de Español de Granada
FEDELE
Bildungsurlaub
Cámara de Comercio de Madrid
DELE
CCSE
Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Granada
Erasmus+
Asociación de Escuelas de Español de Andalucía
Comisión Central de Ayuda a los Estudios de Suecia
HABLA CON EÑE
HABLA CULTURA
HABLA MÉTODO
  • Legal Notice
  • Privacy and Cookies

Copyright © 2021
iNMSOL

Diseño y Desarrollo Web
Destacamos
  • Non-native teachers
  • Instituto Cervantes
  • Language test
Utilizamos cookies para asegurar que damos la mejor experiencia al usuario en nuestro sitio web. Si continúa utilizando este sitio asumiremos que está de acuerdo.Estoy de acuerdo