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The Spanish language has an estimated 400.000.000 of native speakers, which makes it the third most spoken language, after Mandarin Chinese and English. But the  are much more reduced than the Mandarin and English origins in terms of geographical space and number of people that speaks the language.

In this article we are going to present a brief , first in Spain and then in Latin America.

The linguistics roots of the Spanish language are based on the . There are more European languages based on the Romance too, like the Portuguese, French and Italian languages. Romance languages are the ones originated from Vulgar Latin.

The Romance languages have evolved during time due to the influence and contact with other languages and dialects. The languages have taken lots of cultural and linguistic aspects found in little known dialects around the world. For example, the  takes influences from the Iberian and Celtic traditions.

There is a vast amount of vocabulary words taken from the Greek language. These words were adopted by Latin speakers and, then, by Spanish speakers.

The  in the Iberian peninsula also brought lots of influences into the language. This phenomenon produced a number of new words, names and last names from the Arab tradition being used by Spanish speakers.

The Spanish language is also known as Castellano (Castillian), especially in some territories of Spain. This is due to its beginnings in the region of Castilla, a region located in the north-central part of Spain.

Spanish as a common language for Spain was dictated in part by the territorial unity of the country. Spain reached this unity once they set themselves

Castilla and its linguistic traditions expanded to most of the Iberian Peninsula, by the end of the 15th century. The Spanish state was born later, after the marriage of Isabel I of Castilla and Fernando II de Aragón.

Castillian language reached its most remarkable importance and identity.  evolved during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into what it is now. Several changes in the traditions and linguistic evolution produced the language the way we use it these days.

However, Spanish, especially spoken Spanish, is not the same in all the Spanish territory. It has different versions and dialects that are used in different states. There are some differences in its lexical and pronunciation aspects that makes them look like totally different languages.

Luckily, there exists the Real Academia De La Lengua Española, an entity created to protect and rule .

According to historians, the Spanish language arrived to America thanks to Christopher Columbus. After that, the rest of colonizers helped the process at the end of the fifteenth century, when the Spanish language was already totally consolidated in the Iberian Peninsula.

In America, Spanish took some more time to establish through a process known as “hispanización”.

The American continent had  that were spoken from north to south, which made the cultures in the continent extremely different from the Spanish culture. Spanish conquerors had to use gestures to communicate with the natives, until they taught Spanish to some captives that were used as interpreters.

When the Spanish language started to expand throughout Latin America, helped to improve the process, especially the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries.

Children and teenagers were converted into Catholicism in the schools the missionaries established in ”the new world”. This allowed the Spanish language to slowly penetrate natives’ culture and traditions, until it became the most used language by indigenous people.

So, along with the evangelization, the language started to become part of their lives until it was imposed. Amerindian dialects were set to a second position.

The Spanish people settled in The American Continent were always a minority, which allowed their traditions and culture to be influenced as well. The mixing of the languages and people brought as a result the incorporation of aspects of the pre-Columbian cultures into ”American Spanish”.

As there were African slaves in America, their language and traditions also contributed many aspects to the new cultural mixture.

People’s accents in the South American countries are more similar to their several native dialects than to the Spanish spoken in the Iberian Peninsula. Their vocabulary has also been influenced by the native languages, mainly by the náhuatl, spoken by the Aztecs and the quechua, spoken by the Incas.

As the Aztec and Inca civilizations were the two most predominant in the continent their languages were the most important as well. Even after the Spanish arrived, the two languages were used broadly for commerce purposes.

Besides all the aspects mentioned before, the Spanish conquerors met in Seville, Andalucía, where the Andalusian dialect was dominant. When they arrived at America they brought some influences from this dialect as well, enriching the multicultural variety presented in the  nowadays.

This is a brief history of the Spanish language as it is known these days.

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Do you wish to communicate with Spanish speaking people? Do you sometimes wonder what are those Spanish speaking people saying? Do you want to visit the country where Spanish is been used but since you do not understand the language you are worried? Whatever may be the reason; there is no particular time to learn Spanish language. So now pull up your socks and start learning Spanish yourself.

If you want to start learning Spanish, there are many Spanish courses that are easily available online. If you have planned to learn Spanish online, there are many free courses available too, but the real thing is that there is nothing called a free lunch. You might be able to know some basic numbers or greetings, etc from those websites, but you will not be able to learn to communicate properly with the Spanish people.

There are number of ways through which you can learn Spanish language. The best online Spanish courses such as Rocket Spanish as well as Learning Spanish like crazy are some of the courses that can help you to learn Spanish. In Rocket Spanish the course is taught by the native speaker Mauricio Evlampieff. There are more than 40 lessons which will keep you busy. They know how to make learning enjoyable, they have even included some wonderful games which will keep you focused and interested.

All the games included in the learning process will help you to learn something new. You can even access the learning lounge so that you can easily interact with the other Spanish learners. The huge team of the Rocket Spanish is always ready to help you to learn Spanish online. Before buying the course you can sign up for the 6 day trial for free and if you like it, you can go ahead and buy it online.

Learning Spanish like crazy is the other online course for the people who are interested to learn Spanish language.  You will get an audio which is of 70 hours. They have funny learning process where you do not have to memorize different words. All the things are designed to learn comfortably. You might have got embarrassed by your outdated Spanish speaking style but if you will go through this course you will know how to interact in the most updated way.

This course will even provide you with a software program which is from FSI (Foreign Service Institute). The same type of the course is also used to teach the members of DEA, CIA and FBI and many other government employees. You can easily share your problems with the other learners who are even trying to learn Spanish. You can go through the free trial session of both the course and you can choose the one which you think will be comfortable for you to learn Spanish language.

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Question by Mysels: Spanish language?
I can speak some spanish, but I need to learn more.
Yo puedo hablar algun espanol, pero necesito para aprender mas.

What are some FREE websites or programs with free trials that can help me?
Thank you so much

Best answer:

Answer by lovely_heart18kc
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