Nearly 100 percent of Spanish primary school students are studying English, ranking Spain among the top European Union countries for multilingual learning.
The Spanish Prime Minister has revealed his poor English skills by inadvertently divulging some of the more basic gaffes he has made when attempting to speak English.
Spain’s King Felipe VI announced this week that at long last a globally recognized Spanish language certificate had been developed to test the proficiency across all Spanish speaking countries.
A new advert has just been released starring footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones, in which he shows off his, dubious, Spanish skills to help people learn common holiday phrases.
Spain's Fundéu BBVA language foundation on Tuesday named its word of the year. The winner is a Spanish take on a term allegedly invented by a drunk Australian over a decade ago.
With the summer holidays now over for most people in Spain, The Local has put together some of the most common and useful slang expressions used in Spanish workplaces to help ease the pain of the return to work.
When it comes to adapting the English to their own needs, the Spaniards are masters. In our latest picture gallery, The Local takes a look at ten more 'English' words that people in Spain have made their own.
Learning Spanish is difficult enough at the best of times, but these ten videos will only make it that much harder. Read on to see how badly foreigners can mangle the language of Cervantes.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has sent a rejection letter to a language school that recently offered him a free language course in the UK. Here, school founder Silvía García gives The Local her reaction to the news.
In this week's The Local List we look at Catalonia's most colourful colloquialisms to stop you getting lost in translation next time you roam beyond the Ramblas in Barcelona.
A fascinating language map lets readers compare words across 30 different European languages at the same time. See if you can find out what words are unique to Spain.
It turns out using a foreign language is not always a disadvantage. People are better at making rational decisions when they are not using their native language, new research by Spanish scientists shows.
Spain's Fundéu BBVA language association named its Spanish word of the year on Monday. The winner is a mysterious word which arrived in the country via South America.
A new law will mean that all candidates who began their degree studies in the Spanish region of Catalonia this year will have to pass an end-of-course English exam in order to graduate.
A newcomer is muscling its way onto Spain's booming foreign language market: alongside stalwarts like English and German, Mandarin Chinese is gaining popularity as an option for Spanish children.
Spain’s Education Minister's claims that Catalonia needs to be "Spanishized" have been dismissed by a newspaper piece that reflects on how Catalan pupils scored higher in Spanish aptitude tests than the national average.
Schools in Spain's Balearic Islands opened for business again on Monday after a three-week strike against against a new trilingual education law which many argue undermine the role of Catalan in the classroom.
The director of Spain's most important Spanish language teaching body, the Cervantes Institute, has bemoaned the current "limited vocabulary" of Spaniards, adding it has become "fashionable to speak badly".
Valencia's Academy of Language is demanding that the regional parliament dump a move by the Popular Party (PP) to have Valencian reclassified as a separate language from Catalan, warning against using language as a political tool.
A New York Police Department officer has been hit with an official reprimand for violating the 'English-only' workplace rule after speaking a single sentence in Spanish.
