... United States, where it is also known as American Spanish, or Español americano. It's increasingly difficult to ignore the spread of Spanish in the United States. Bank ATMs offer instructions in Spanish. The Yellow Pages in many cities adds a Spanish-language insert. And Spanish is working its way into everyday use. From magazines to music, Spanish-language media have exploded. Radio ... stations more than doubled in the last decade, to 533. Broadcast TV stations jumped 70%, to 53, according to industry estimates. And those figures don't ... at the management level. There are a...

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... is 3, 334, 074 and the area is 187,000 sq km. The places of interests are Mauseleo de Artigas, Mercado de Puerto, Feria de Tristan Narvaja, the Uruguayan Littoral, and the Uruguyan Riviera. The principal citiy is Montevideo. Argentina Argentina is a very ... area is around 129, 494 sq km. The places of interests are Lake Nicaragua, Volcan Mombacho, and Parque Colon. The principal cities are Leon and Managua. Panama Panama is a very wealthy and beautiful country. The population is around 2.8 million and an area ... cities are Havana, Trinidad, and Baracoa. Dominican Republic The Dominic...

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... than six hundred and fifty thousand (650,000) students in universities study Spanish each year. In many parts of the USA there are social bilingual services, education, and legal Hispanic residence. The bilingual education helps many Hispanic children in their primary studies. In many North American cities, there are newspapers and magazines in Spanish. Many Hispanics read then because it has a lot ... of information about the Latino community. Hispanic television reporters are the source of information in cities such as New York where millions of Puerto Ricans live, and many in San Juan...

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... are menus at restaurants that are written in Spanish, and to go grocery shopping, the cashiers checking you out may not even know English. Florida receives a large population of Spanish speakers from the islands; the main ones being Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. The problem is, counties ... such as Europe and Asia spend triple the amount of time in school than Americans do teaching usually one or two other languages aside from their native ... borderline of Mexico into Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or California. Most of these immigrants have never spoken English before, and t...

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... is, and the reply will invariably be, "It's that island in the Caribbean." No, that's Puerto Rico. Costa Rica is in the Central American isthmus, with Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south. Its 3.8 million people live in a land area about the size of the state of West Virginia, ... history provides a colorful backdrop to every place you see: sun-drenched Pacific beaches, tropical jungles of the Caribbean coast, and the cosmopolitan cities and high mountains of the Central Valley. Visitors are astonished by the cleanliness of the country, the natural beauty and wildlife, and even...

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