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The 30th anniversary of the Instituto Cervantes ends with a book, a good phrase and a battery of data that, although they are the continuity of already known statistics, still impress. First, the phrase and the book: "

. It is Spanish and some other things, but Spanish is the great cause of Spanish society," said Professor of Economics José Luis García Delgado in a discussion with the scientist of the CSIC Elea Giménez Toledo held to present

.

The yearbook is a now classic format: it fixes the work of Cervantes professionals, country by country, warns of demographic trends and political circumstances that determine the demand for the Spanish language,

and, in the end, sends a message that, in the end, is always optimistic: "Spanish is a language in good health," said its director, Luis García Montero, at the presentation of the Cervantes Yearbook.

And, to justify that diagnosis, the data came.

According to Cervantes, Spanish is the native language of 493 million people;

only Mandarin Chinese has more.

If you add to the account those non-native speakers but who have some linguistic competence, the figure rises to 591 million people.

English and Chinese are ahead.

In 2021, 24 million students study Spanish in the world. The language appears as the second preferred language in educational programs in the United Kingdom and the United States and in

. In the United States, in addition, the Trump era passed, in favor of the "

" policy. The White House has relaunched its website in Spanish, the language that represents 7.5% of the world's population, 9% of global GDP and will soon be spoken by 27% of Americans.

More interesting facts: Spanish is, since 2015, the

. Spain, Argentina and Mexico are among the top 15 film-producing countries and Spain and Argentina, among the 15 largest book publishers. Spanish is also the third most used language on the internet and the second on channels such as YouTube, Netflix or Spotify.

The but: the growing influence of Spanish responds to the

of Latin American countries. But that cycle is ending. By mid-century, the demographics of Spanish will stop and other populations will grow in sub-Saharan Africa. "We must bet on consolidating the prestige of Spanish as a second language," explained Luis García Montero, who called for "betting on the prestige of culture in Spanish as an ambassador of the Hispanic community to attract more students. Teaching a language is a lot. more important than teaching a vocabulary. The values ​​that we are interested in defending are sedimented in the vocabulary ".

Some future challenges: "We have to take

very seriously

, because there is nothing more foreign than a machine. There is a great task ahead in science and technology."

For this challenge, Cervantes will have a contribution from the State of State of

, according to the General State Budgets that were presented in Congress yesterday.

With its own income, the Institute will manage to manage 135 million.

A lot of money?

Neither yes nor no.

Before the crisis of 2008, the State came to invest 90 million in the Cervantes.

Afterwards, it stayed at 60 million.

With that budget (still pending approval), Cervantes will finish its Dakar center, consolidate its classroom in Ivory Coast and move forward with its new center in Los Angeles.

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