• Over the past decade, the demand for Spanish Language courses worldwide has almost doubled.
  • Spanish is the second most common language in the country and is spoken by over 12% of the population. The United States holds the world’s fifth largest Spanish-speaking population, outnumbered only by Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Colombia.  
  • In both the US and Canada, Spanish is the most popular foreign language to learn. In the US, it is the most popular by a very wide margin.
  • Spanish and English share much of their vocabulary through cognates, as both languages derive many of their words from Latin and Arabic.
  • The Hispanic population of the United States is an estimated 50.5 million as of April 1, 2010, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 16.3 percent of the nation’s total population. In addition, there are 3.7 million residents of Puerto Rico, a U.S. Territory.
  • With the number of Spanish speakers living in the US growing, the opportunities for those who speak Spanish appear to be growing as well. These opportunities can turn into financial advantages to benefit those who know the language.