Alternativo.mx/El number of people who have Spanish as mother tongue plus limited competition and apprentices totaling 559 million, reported the Cervantes Institute to present its annual “The 2015 Spanish in the world.”
In a ceremony at the headquarters of the institution, director Victor Garcia de la Concha reiterated its call from previous years that while a growing number of people who communicate in Spanish, there is a “impoverishment of their use.”
According to the report, in 2015 nearly 470 million people have Spanish as their mother tongue; and to add those who speak a limited and those who study (considered potential users of the language) the figure rises to 559 million people.
The Spanish is the second native language of the world by number of speakers, behind Mandarin Chinese; and 6.7 percent of the world population is already speaking, what exceeds the Russian (2.2 percent), French (1.1 percent) and German (1.1 percent).
Forecasts Institution estimate that in 2030 the Spanish speakers will be 7.5 percent of the world population, and within three or four generations, 10 percent of the world population will be understood in Spanish.
More than 21 million students study Spanish as a foreign language in various regions of the world
On the Internet, Spanish is the third most used in the network, after English and Chinese language.; 7.9 percent of internet users communicating in Spanish, whose use in the network has grown thousand 100 percent between 2000 and 2013.
The Spanish is the second language in social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Even the Castilian is the second language in the network of short messages in cities like London or New York.
Garcia de la Concha said that in regard to the quality of Spanish, it is a language “that make the speakers, those who speak well, those who do regularly and those who speak evil; seen in terms reaching review of the Royal Spanish Academy The Spanish are in good health, but another thing to use generally enriched or depleted “
.” No doubt there are an impoverished use the Spanish, and is not that a bit right speech is used, but depleted in all spheres “.
He recalled that last year described this use of Spanish as” scruffy “and caused by” poor reading and not have good reading and deficiency in education for poor programs in teaching Spanish. “
This event was accompanied Garcia de la Concha, a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, David Fernandez Cheers, responsible for the latest data on the Spanish.
also participated professor at the University of Vigo, José Montero Reguera to present the second part of the report covering the second part of “Don Quixote is studied . de la Mancha “by Miguel de Cervantes, through articles of various scholars
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