The Story of Spanish

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow

Book Overview

The authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe.

Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Beno t Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the husband-and-wife...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250049040
• ISBN13: 9781250049049
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Answers a lot of questions about Spanish

If you have an interest in the formation of language you’ll love this book. The part about the City of Cordoba is super interesting. Many charts about Spanish speakers currently.