Interesting Facts on Spanish

• The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing.
• The names of most of the days of the week in both English and Spanish come from the names of planets and the Roman gods.
• The word chocolate came to Spanish from Nahautl, an indigenous Mexican tongue. The word eventually became part of the Spanish vocabulary, and then English.
• Panama, the Spanish-language country has its currency printed in English only. The U.S. dollar is the official currency of Panama, where it's called the balboa. Panama has its own coins, however.
• The most popular Spanish Bible was translated by Casiodoro de Reina in 1569 and revised by Cipriano de Valera in 1602. The translation has been updated several times since.
• Nearly 30 percent of the residents of Spain have a first language other than Spanish, although most also use Spanish as a second language. Languages of Spain include Catalan, Galician and Basque.
• The Spanish word ‘alfabeto’ and the English word ‘alphabet’ both are derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.