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California has more Spanish speakers than any of the other 50 U.S. states. California has a population
of 37 million. That means over 12 million Spanish speakers.

The Spanish language is the second most-common language in the U.S. after English. There are more
Spanish speakers in the U.S. than there are speakers of Chinese, French, Japanese, the Native American language
and all the other languages combined. According to the 2007 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S.
Census Bureau Spanish is the primary language spoken at home by over 34 million people aged 5 or older. There
are also 45 million Hispanics who speak Spanish as a first and second language and there are 6 million Spanish
students, making it the world's second-largest Spanish-speaking community, only after Mexico and ahead of Spain,
Colombia and Argentina. Roughly half of all U.S. Spanish speakers also speak English "very well", based on the self-assessment Census question respondents.