The Story of Spanish

A rich linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe, from the authors of The Story of French , who “do an excellent job of transforming it into an accessible and lively narrative” ( Los Angeles Times ). Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world’s second most spoken language, the official language of twenty-one countries on two continents, and the unofficial second language of the United States? Jean-Benoît Nadeau an