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=__**TVHS SPANISH CLASSES HOMEPAGE 2016-2017--Señora Parkhurst**__ =

//**Where is Spanish spoken? Why is it such an important language to learn? Check out this map of the Spanish-speaking (= Hispanophone) world!**//
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 * Also.....here's the link to this Wikipedia map, along with some very interesting statistics--see if you can understand the information both //en inglés y en español!//**

**Why study Spanish?** //(from www.aatsp.org/advocacy page)//

 * There are 328,518,810 Spanish speakers worldwide, putting it second only to Chinese for total number of native speakers.
 * In the US, it is used by some 35 million people or around 10% of the US population. This makes the US home to the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world.
 * Spanish is the fourth most widely geographically used language in the world, spanning 44 countries.
 * It is the official language of 21 countries.
 * It serves as the most commonly taught foreign language in the United States.
 * 68.8% of high school students and 52.2% of post-secondary students with world language programs choose to study Spanish.
 * It serves as an official language of the United Nations, the European Union, World Trade Organization, and North American Free Trade Agreement.
 * It is the third most commonly used language on the Internet (after English and Chinese).
 * Hispanic citizens make up 15.4% of the US population and the second largest ethnic group.
 * There are more than 5,000 elected US officials who are of Latino/Hispanic origin.

Spanish has been spoken in the US for centuries, and it is used in many different ways today.
 * It began being used in what is now the US in 1513 (almost five centuries ago) by Ponce de León. Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers and explorers.
 * Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer, traveled from Florida to the Gulf of California 267 years before the Lewis and Clark expedition.
 * Spanish is a part of our popular culture, with shows like "Dora the Explorer," "The George Lopez Show," and "Ugly Betty," as well as the language of major networks such as Univisión and Telemundo.
 * Spanish influence is evident in place names: states such as Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Florida, California, and Arizona all come from Spanish words; cities and regions such as Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, Alcatraz, Toledo, Sante Fe, and Las Vegas, to name a only handful, are also of Spanish origin.

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A good reason to learn another language!
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__A variety of things for everybody to explore:__
[|Some fun alphabet practice for everyone--¡Español IV también! (Notice the different names for the letters "V" and "W"]) [|Trabalenguas--Spanish tongue twisters: fun pronunciation practice] [|Counting 1-20 in Spanish dot-to-dot--¿De dónde es la bandera al final?] [|Counting backwards in Spanish dot-to-dot] [|Some games to practice Spanish vocabulary] [|El ahorcado: Play hangman in Spanish] [|Learn some facts about Mexico] [|Some pages to download if you feel like coloring!] __[|¿Tienes hambre? Hungry? Visit an online supermarket in Argentina]__ __[|All about Spain]__ [|BBC Mundo] __News and information in Spanish--check it out! (Even Spanish I or II students--remember to look for cognates)__ [|Online Travel Videos-Spain] [|Check out this amazing church in Barcelona, España] [|Link to a video for international soccer fans--from the World Cup Soccer Finals 2008, Spain vs. Germany: Spain won, 1-0] __Video: Juanes--"La historia de Juan" (Juanes is a singer from Colombia--he had a rough life as a kid):__

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[|Find out more about Juanes]