Spanish-speaking
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3.0
- adjective
- /ˈspænɪʃˈspiːkɪŋ/
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hispanohablante
- A growing majority of residents in Miami are Spanish-speaking, and only 27.2% of the city's residents speak English only.
- Spanish-speaking population
- Spanish-speaking country
- Spanish-speaking children
AI was able to make me into a fluent Spanish speaking journalist.
- AI was able to make me into a fluent Spanish speaking journalist.
- And so I grew up surrounded by Spanish speaking family.
- If I could have been born in a Spanish speaking country, I'd be fucking dominating Totalmente da Cuero.
Examples
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There are a number of potential benefits to teaching cognates to Spanish-speaking ELL students with language impairment.
Academic text (2012) -
Both Radio Mil and Radio Cuzamil employ no more than twenty Spanish-speaking disc jockeys, reporters, and technicians.
Academic text (1996) -
And so I grew up surrounded by Spanish speaking family.
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Children were identified as predominantly Spanish speaking when they met three of the following four criteria:
Academic text (2012) -
I just wonder what the Spanish-speaking members of the audience think.
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This is a Spanish-speaking classroom.
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This passage of the Quixote is one of the more anthologized ones in the Spanish speaking world.
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Hollywood's renewed Spanish production had a brief yet significant impact on Spanish-speaking moviegoers in the United States.
Academic text (1998) -
Data from 110 preschool-aged, monolingual Spanish-speaking children served to test the proposed effects.
Academic text (2012) -
The conference will include presentations in both English and Spanish-speaking formats to accommodate all attendees.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spanish-speaking is simply two parts: Spanish (the language named after 'Spain') and speaking ('to talk'), so it literally means 'talking in Spanish' or being able to communicate in Spanish.