English to Spanish Translation

The 2000 U.S. Census recorded 28,101,052 Spanish-speaking people living in the United States, making it the most spoken foreign language in the country. In addition, Spanish is the second most spoken language around the world, with nearly 329 million speakers. Due to Spain’s colonial past, Spanish has come to be used in forty-four countries, including Mexico, the Philippines, South and Central America (excluding Brazil), the Caribbean, and some countries in Africa.

Because it is spoken in so many different countries, and factors such as indigenous languages may have affected the Spanish spoken in different regions, Spanish has developed a large number of dialects, such as Mexican Spanish, Chilean Spanish, and European or Castilian Spanish. Consequently, the English to Spanish translator needs to ensure that the phrases and words they use when they translate from English to Spanish are appropriate for the target country or dialect to avoid producing a low quality and incomprehensible English to Spanish translation. Each English to Spanish translator at Akorbi was born and raised in a Spanish-speaking market and has expertise in the local language and culture to ensure you received accurate and effective English to Spanish translation services. The types of English to Spanish translation requests we receive are very broad and can be anything from the English to Spanish translation of government and legislative materials to the translation of consumer and marketing materials aimed at Spanish-speaking consumers in the United States, as well as a great deal of business transaction information. No matter what type of English to Spanish translation you require, we can assist you to professionally and accurately translate English to Spanish or provide Spanish to English translation services.

Spanish ranks as the most requested language for translators in the United States, primarily because a very large proportion of the U.S. population uses Spanish in everyday life, but also due to the proximity of the U.S. to so many Spanish speaking countries.

Other Facts about Some Spanish Speaking Countries:

• Mexico, member of the North American Free Trade Association along with the United States and Canada, has the thirteenth highest GDP in the world. Mexico was the second largest export market for U.S. goods and the United States’ third largest trading partner with $345.3 billion ($153 billion exported, $192.3 billion imported) in two-way goods and services trade in 2008.


• Venezuela has the twenty-seventh highest GDP in the world. Venezuela was the twenty-fifth largest export market for U.S. goods and the United States’ fifteenth largest trading partner with $43.3 billion ($14.4 billion exported, $29 billion imported) in two-way goods and services trade in 2008.


• Spain has the ninth highest GDP in the world. Spain trades with the United States as part of the European Union. Spain, along with some the smaller members of the European Union, had $164.7 billion ($64.7 billion exported, $100 billion imported) in two-way goods trade in 2007.


• Argentina has the thirty-first highest GDP in the world. Argentina was the thirty-first largest export market for U.S. goods and the United States’ forty-first largest trading partner with $14.7 billion ($9.2 billion exported, $5.5 billion imported) in two-way goods and services trade in 2008.


• Colombia has the thirty-fifth highest GDP in the world. Colombia was the twenty-third largest export market for U.S. goods and the United States’ twenty-seventh largest trading partner with $20.8 billion ($9.5 billion exported, $11.3 billion imported) in two-way goods and services trade in 2008.

Information about the size of the language group living in the U.S. was obtained from the 2000 Census in the form of a sample from the larger pool of results. The estimates about the total number of speakers of a specific language were obtained from Ethnologue (www.enthnologue.com), however these are slightly outdated. GDP information was obtained from the 2009 CIA World Factbook list. U.S. trade information with a specific country was obtained from the Office of the United States Trade Representative website (www.ustr.gov).