Bruno Mars was born Peter Gene Hernandez was born in Hawaii and has quite a mix of DNA. His father is Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi Jewish, and his mother is Filipino and Spanish. Does Bruno Mars speak Spanish?
Bruno Mars is bilingual and the two languages that he speaks fluently are Spanish and English. English is his first language, and is what was predominately spoken in his home while growing up Waikiki, Hawaii.
Though Bruno Mars speaks Spanish, he does not have a native tongue and therefore speaks with a bit of an accent when using the language. He does however speak Spanish more fluently than most English speakers who learn it, and this is probably due to his ancestry, as well as being around it while growing up.
Bilingual Stats
There are many studies showing a range of how many people are bilingual, someone who can speak two languages fluently, and though world statistics are not kept it is estimated that 43% of the world’s population is bilingual.
Several countries around the world have more than one official language, which is why the number of polyglots, or people who speak more than one language, is so high. At the other end of the spectrum, you have the United States and Mexico, neither of whom have an official language, though they each have their own popular language.
Over 41 million Americans, which is approximately 13% of the population of the United States, speaks Spanish, making it by far the second spoken language in the country, behind Engish. Though exact numbers are hard to determine as the number of students learning the language rises, and there are no statistics for undocumented Spanish speakers within the country.
Many Americans, in addition to other prominent English countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, feel there’s no need to learn another language, as most of the various aspects of the business world all speak English.
Spanish Language
Spanish, or Castilian, is the world’s second most spoken language, behind Mandarin Chinese. There are ten main dialects of the Spanish language, and most are named after a region in which the native speakers come from.
Spanish is an official language in eight countries, and one territory, throughout the globe. Over 8% of the European Union population speak it natively, with another 7% of the E.U. population learning it as an additional language, on top of their native language.
As with most languages, Spanish came about by evolving from another language, in this case, it was Vulgar Latin around 210 B.C. The first written documentation that has been found to use the precursor to today’s Spanish was found to be from the 9th century.
