In Madrid, Spain's Cervantes Institute reports that Spanish is the second most widely used language on Twitter. Its presence in social media and throughout the internet has increased by 800% in recent years, it says.
In an interview Cervantes' director noted that those interested in learning Spanish are increasing by about 8% every year, and worldwide 18 million high school and university students are now enrolled in language classes.
Cervantes predicts that "within three or four generations," at least 10% of the world's population will rely upon Spanish. Perhaps to the surprise of some, the United States will have the world's largest percentage of Spanish speakers. Mexico is currently in first place, followed by Spain. Estimates are that 475 - 500 million people worldwide speak Spanish, either as a first or second language. About 80 million Facebook users communicate in Spanish, most of whom are in Latin America or the U.S.
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