{"id":30090,"date":"2022-01-13T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academiacontacto.com\/?p=30090"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:18:22","slug":"spanish-curiosities-you-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academiacontacto.com\/de\/spanish-curiosities-you-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish curiosities you didn&#8217;t know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is the 29th most populated country in the world, and the 52nd largest. But Spanish is spoken in Spain and in many other places.<\/p><ul><li>One of the<strong> first Spanish\u00a0 curiosities is that it is spoken on six continents<\/strong>:<br \/><br \/>Europe: in Spain.<br \/>America: in all Central and South American countries, except Brazil, although it is already the second language.<br \/>Africa: Spanish is spoken in Ceuta and Melilla, but also in the Canary Islands, Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara.<br \/>Oceania: on Easter Island, in Polynesia.<br \/>Antarctica: although it may seem strange, on this continent Spanish is spoken in the Argentinean town of Fort\u00edn Sargento Cabral and in Villa La Estrella, a Chilean town.<\/li><li>Spanish has 88,000 words in the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy)<br \/>\u00a0Another curiosity about Spanish is that it is the fastest language to pronounce. The speed of the language is based on the number of syllables that an average speaker can pronounce per second. 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The most curious thing is that the letter \u00d1 is not exclusive to Spanish, but can also be found in other languages such as Aragonese, Galician, Basque, Aymara, Mixtec, Zapotec, Breton, Filipino, Guarani or Quechua.<\/li><li>It is estimated that by the year 2050 the United States will be the most Spanish-speaking country in the world.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is the 29th most populated country in the world, and the 52nd largest. 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