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The purpose of the National Spanish Examination is 1. to recognize achievement in the study of the Spanish language 2. to promote proficiency in interpretive communication in the Spanish language 3. to assess the national standards as they pertain to learning Spanish 4. to stimulate further interest in the teaching and learning of Spanish Also:
Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
Section Two, Part 2B: Presentational Speaking, asks students to give a formal oral presentation with a cultural comparison document and have four minutes to prepare and two minutes to record. The test is approximately 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours in length. Note: As of 2017, all audio responses must be digitally submitted online as a mp3 file.
In parts of Spain, it is considered proper Spanish for the letter "z" and the combos "ci" and "ce" to be pronounced as [θ] (as in English thin), with the exceptions of Galicia, Andalusia/Andalucía and the Canary Islands. In most of Spanish-speaking Spain, the pronunciation of surnames ending in the letter "z" sound similar to the English "th".
The global number of Spanish-speakers consists of approximately 559 million persons. [1] Objectives for Spanish-language education include preparing students to use the language for speaking, listening, reading and writing and to learn about the varied Spanish-speaking cultures as a context in which the language is used.
43,369,734 (82% of U.S. Hispanics speak Spanish very well (according to a 2011 survey). [100] There are 65.1 million Hispanics in the U.S. as of 2023 [101] + 2.8 mill. non Hispanic Spanish speakers [102]) 58,869,734 [1] (43.4 million as a first language + 15.5 million as a second language. To avoid double counting, the number does not include 8 ...
These dialects have important phonological differences compared to varieties of Spanish proper; for example, they have preserved the voiced/voiceless distinction among sibilants as they were in Old Spanish. For this reason, the letter s , when written single between vowels, corresponds to a voiced [z] —e.g. rosa [ˈroza] ('rose').
Standard Spanish may be seen as a type of roof covering and influencing the various spoken dialects of Spanish. Individual varieties of Spanish can be located in both geographical and social space, with the speech of the most powerful being most similar to the standard roof, while the speech of the least powerful differs the most from the standard.