Jordan Mondshine is a student at George Washington University that is on his way to graduating in May of 2016. He has fluency in speaking, writing and reading Spanish and feels these skills will serve him well in the future. There are over thirty five million Spanish speakers right here in the United States and there are over 400 million speakers of Spanish throughout the world. It is the fourth most commonly spoken language on the planet, behind only Mandarin, English, and Hindi languages. When you count only those that are native speakers, Spanish far outnumbers English. It is the official language of countries on four continents and that number covers 21 countries. Today over 40 percent of the population growth in the United States is tied to Hispanic peoples and the country is on its way to a massive rise in Spanish language usage. The population of Hispanic people in the US will approach and eventually surpass fifty million people in the next couple of years, so the reasons to speak and comprehend Spanish are compelling.
