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This entry is part of a list of articles I wrote for a newsletter encouraging bilingual employees to embrace their knowledge of speaking Spanish. I found the articles while going through my old files, so I wanted to share them in this format.

In the U.S., a 14 year-old boy from Indiana won the National Spelling Bee. He correctly spelled the word AUTOCHTHONOUS. It means ‘native to a land’ or ‘indigenous,’ and in Spanish the word is ‘autóctono.’

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The next few entries are articles I wrote for a newsletter encouraging bilingual employees to embrace their knowledge of speaking Spanish. I found the articles while going through my old files, so I wanted to share them in this format.

Have you heard? Spanish is the second most widely spoken language on the planet (according to population)! Ethnologue, a research company that dedicates itself to the study of the wold’s languages, states that there are 332 million Spanish speakers.

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