Why Study Spanish? Spanish is the second most spoken language by native speakers in the world, with more than 400 million Spanish speakers in 21 countries: Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain have Spanish as its national language; other places such as the USA has adopted and integrated S