Which is the most widely used language, Spainish or Manderin?
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As far as sheer numbers, Mandarin by a long shot. The number in parenthesis are the total number of speakers (native and secondary).\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)\n   2. English (480 million)\n   3. Spanish (320 million)\n   4. Russian (285 million)\n   5. French (265 million)\n   6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)\n   7. Arabic (221 million)\n   8. Portuguese (188 million)\n   9. Bengali (185 million)\n  10. Japanese (133 million)\n  11. German (109 million)
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Mierda! : The Real Spanish You Were Never Taught in School by Frances de Talavera Berger  \n\ntry that book for the spanish language
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Yes.\n\nIn Wales about 15% of the population speak Welsh as a first or equal first language.  Most scoolchildren in Wales have to learn Welsh.\n\nIn Ireland, Irish Gaelic is spoken - particularly in the Western areas.\n\nIn Brittany (North Western France), Breton is spoken by a sizeable minority as a first language alongside French.\n\nIn Scotland - paricularly the Western Isles and Western Highlands - Scots Gaelic is spoken by a - diminishing - minority.\n\nManx is surviving as a second (learned) language but has no real mother tongue speakers on the Isle of Man.\nThe same applies to Cornish.\n\nCumbrian is to all intents and purposes extinct and survives in a few ancient texts only.\n\nNumerous other celtic languages - from as far afield as present-day Turkey and Spain are long dead.\n\n'Britain' is a celtic name from the original celtic (sometimes referred to as British) language spoken throughout the British Isles before the Roman conquest in the first century A.D.
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which language is it?
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I would say Italian. I have learned French and Spanish, and Italian is pretty much the same as Spanish. I found Spanish much easier to learn than French, although I learned French before Spanish. Grammar and pronounciation is easier.
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The following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):\n\nMandarin Chinese (836 million) \nHindi (333 million) \nSpanish (332 million) \nEnglish (322 million) \nBengali (189 million)
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If you plan on coming to the U.S.Spanish is your best bet. There are a lot more Spanish speakers in the U.S.than French speakers. Spanish is used more for everyday speaking in certain parts of the country,like the Southwest U.S. French is used more for leisure,like for people traveling to Canada or to France. Spanish is also a lot easier to spell. You pronounce every letter that is spoken in Spanish  but in French you only speak about half of the letters as they mix together.
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Mandarin Chinese is the most prevalent language.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers
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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.
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In my opinion, Spanish.\nEnglish is the worse, by far.
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Spanish. \n\nIt has the 3rd most speakers in the world, behind Mandarin Chinese and English, and is spoken in 20(official languages?) countries.\n\nHistorically, the spread of Russian began during the cold war, by imperialism of the Soviet Union throughtout Asia and Europe. It is spoken in 16 countries, most of them formerly part of the USSR.
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Arash is is English your second language by any chance?\n\nDid you perhaps mean to ask which was greater, the Roman civilisation or the Persian civilisation?\n\nIn English we speak of Romance languages, meaning the languages that evolved from Roman Latin. But it is very rare to speak of a Romance civilisation.
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yes, as do most all country leaders. currently, engish is a required 2nd language in the schools of over 36, non english, 1st and 2nd world countries, including korea, china, russia, france, germany, spain, israel, iraq, japan, india, etc.
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No, it's Basque.\nSome linguists and anthropologists believe it might have been spoken since the Stone Age, and it might be the language of Cro-Magnon man.
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Well in all honesty there are many languages you might check out. You see Spanish is a Romance Language, which is derived from Latin. There are many languages similar to this such as Italian, French, and Portugese. If you are looking for a challenge, you might take on Russian. There language is totally different and derived from the cyrilic alphabet. Hope this helps.
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Which language?\n\nSpanish:  http://www.studyspanish.com/\nIndo-European Languages:  http://www.ielanguages.com/
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Persian (known variously as: فارسی Fārsi or پارسی Pārsi, local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Tajik, a Central Asian dialect, or Dari, another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. \nPrior to British colonization, Persian was also widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the language of culture and education in several Muslim courts in the subcontinent throughout the Middle Ages and became the official court language under the Mughal emperors. \nEvidence of its former rank in the region can still be seen by the extent of its influence on Hindi and Urdu, as well as the popularity that Persian literature still enjoys in the region. Persian and its dialects have official-language status in the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. \nAccording to CIA World Factbook, there are 61 million native speakers of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is of the Subject Object Verb type. Since 200 million people speak in Persian throughout the world, UNESCO was asked to select Persian as one of its languages in 2006.