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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Class # 1 Alphabet "El Alfabeto"

The Spanish alphabet has the following 27 letters and 2 digraphs:

Vowell "Vocales"  A - E - I - 0 - U
The Letters : B(be) - V(ve)  There is no longer any distinction between the sounds of these letters.
The Letters : R(ere / erre) It is sometimes suggested that the name of the letter R be ere when it is single, and erre when it is double RR, but the dictionary of the Real Academia Española defines the name of R as erre or ere.
The Letters : L(ele-elye) It is sometimes suggested that the name of the letter L be ele when it is single, and elye when it is double LL
The Letter  : W It is sometimes called doble ve, ve doble, doble uve 

The language known today as Spanish is derived from a dialect of spoken Latin that is thought to have developed in the north-central part of the Iberian Peninsula in what is now northern Spain, and for which a written standard was developed in the cities of Toledo (13th to 16th centuries) and Madrid (from the 1560s).  Over the past 1,000 years, the language expanded south to the Mediterranean Sea, and was later transferred to the Spanish colonial empire, most notably to the Americas. Today it is the official language of 21 countries Spain, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia, Honduras, Paraguay, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. Spanish was removed as an official language of the Philippines in 1973.
Additionally, Spanish is by far the most studied foreign language in the United States. With over 50 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.



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