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Spanish is a language of critical importance in the United States in any career
Spanish is the native language of approximately 410 million people, and is spoken by approximately 470 million people worldwide
Spanish is second only to Mandarin Chinese in the number of native speakers
Spanish is the third most common language on the internet
Spanish is the second most studied language in the world
Spanish is the second language of international communication
Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations
Spanish is an official language of the European Union and of Mercosur
The United States is the world's second-largest Spanish speaking country with approximately 50 million native and non-native speakers of Spanish
Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country with over 110 million speakers
Spain is the third-largest Spanish speaking country (46 million), and the second-largest when considering only native speakers
Spanish is a good language to study due to its lexical similarity to other Romance languages (lexical similarity is 89% with Portuguese, 85% with Catalan, 82% with Italian, 76% with Sardinian, 75% with French, and 71% with Romanian)
