How has the Spanish language influenced the United States?
115084
The Latino community has now become the largest, and fastest growing minority community in the States, so there is a growing segment of the population that speaks Spanish, and non-spanish speakers are taking up the language as a way to improve commerce with this community.
373033
Because for some reason our education system thinks that it is a foreign language when the truth is that English is not the primary  language in the US. English and Spanish are pretty much  equally used.
617435
Latin Americans in general have had a good influence on Florida including music and food. As well, the Spanish originally settled Florida. Spain finally ceded Florida to the United States with the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819, in exchange for the U.S. renouncing any claims on Texas.
671745
I would say Hispanic anything relating to Spain\nand Latin referring to all countries in Central and South America, which of course, also had their start with Spain to some degree.
561286
Good man! I'm gonna copy that link and send it around! Thanks, Brother - never mind these others - they won't understand until America is a Spanish speaking country.
759967
In Europe countries that speak different language are closer together geographically so it makes sense to lean other languages. In the states there is Spanish to the south and a little French in parts of Canada. Many people in the southwest do speak Spanish. It’s hard to learn and keep up fluency if you don’t use it a lot.
494516
by the look of your avatar, you don't exactly like in the middle of kansas, miss nyc chick. you couldn't be in a better place to learn spanish, yet people on the post are telling you to take classes for a language spoken by the largest growing minority...... ummmmmm...... think about that. go stand on 125th street(that's pronounced "a hun-twunnie fiff stree" for non new yorkers) and see how quickly you will learn spanish. the point is, submerge yourself with spanish on purpose. lee las periodicas, y mira las noticias en la manana mientras esta haciendo desayuno, todo!! ya kno
1029283
I like to tell people that because I know Spanish as well as English, my world is twice as big. That means I can talk to almost anyone I meet in the Southwest United States, where so many speak both Spanish and English, instead of being limited to just English. Now if only I knew French, I could go to Canada and expand my world by another big percentage. Same with Russian or German or Portuguese or Chinese.
452862
I think it is. Español es muy importante en la vida.
291498
Spanish is a very worldly language.
1103122
Spanish - a huge percentage of the world's population speaks Spanish.  Then French.
631940
That is correct, there are many diverse ideas, and Spanish and English are widly spoken, and there are many religions and other cultural differences...\n\nWhenever I have asked what is the "American Culture" that people needs to "assimilate" nobody has been able to explain it to me... is it the pop culture? is it the gangsta rap? is it watching American Idol and consumerism? what is it??
213339
None that I know of but there are lots who speak Spanish.
1035193
The reason why there is Spanish:\n\nIn 133 B.C., consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus defeated the capital city of Numantia in what would be considered modern day Spain.  From this day forward, Numantia (Hispana) was considered a Province or Provincia, which is Latin for "for that Land conquored".  Roman soldiers were stationed in this area, but what is more, army veterans from Rome (a very crowded ancient city) were given farm land out in Spain.\n\nThis part of Europe was run continuously as Roman for hundreds of years and they spoke the same language as they did in Italy (Latinam).  The emperor Trajan came from Spain and ruled at Rome around the year 98.  Starting in the 4th century and developing into the 5th century, the Roman Empire began to weaken through poor rulers, a share in power between the Catholic Church and the imperial family, continuous barbarian invasions from the Germanic lands, and the occasional general who wanted to start a rebellion and become emperor himself.  The empire started to break up into smaller kingdoms such as the Franks (later to become France), the Ostrogoths (Germans who invaded and sacked Italy), The visgoths (more Frank and German people who settle all over the place), The Byzantines (The Eastern Roman Empire, which tried to take back as much land from the barbarians as they could), and many other smaller tribes.  (check out the article on the Suevi just to see how diverse the tribes of Spain were at this time).  This fragmentation and division according to new ethnic lines decreased communication between the former Roman provinces during a time known as the Antique Ages more commonly known as The Dark Ages.  While Roman Catholic priests continued to give mass and speak in Latin for centuries later, it was during this time when the language began to evolve.  By the Middle ages (10th century) it was found that most of the former Roman provinces were speaking a vernacular language that had some similarities to Latin, but had changed significantly.\n\nMany of the Latin words are unchanged such as casa, which is Spanish and Italian for house and Latin for "a house without a basement".  The Romans used Domus (where we get domicile) for an apartment made of stone with a basement.  Because most soldiers and settlers of Spain were typically not very wealthy, they were accustomed to living in single story shanties, hence the preference of the word casa rather than doma in Spanish.\n\nOther words are common between Vernaculars such as "si" (Spanish and Italian for "yes") and "sic", Latin for "thus" or "it is so".  Where the language differs could be explained by introduction of foreign words from Germans or Saracens, evolving seperately from the other Romance languages, or the original language pre-Roman times.\n\nCab drivers in Italy could understand me enough when I gave directions to them in Latin.\n\nThe term "Latin America" comes from the Spanish word Latino, which is what the people of Spain have called themselves for the last 2 thousand years.  First they were Latin, but the language evolved the word to Latino.\n\nI would recommend studying Latin in great detail.  After extensive study, you can pick up fluency in French, Italian and Spanish in as little as 6 months.
1164810
Hablo sí español. ¿Por qué usted pide? El español es una lengua hermosa. Usted debe aprenderla.
107021
We're already seeing the changes as we go to a Hispanic majority; everything is printed in two languages, IVR systems all have the choice for Spanish speaking customers,\nthere is a bigger push to embrace & celebrate Spanish/Hispanic culture.
79612
If its used in your job than yes.\nI would guess the spanish speaking people get a benefit because they use spanish more often in speaking with non-english speaking people.