Spanish is a Romance language with approximately 417 million speakers, 322 to 358 of whom speak it as a first language while the remainder speak it as a second language. Spanish is one of top three most spoken language in the world. A significant number of people also speak Spanish as a foreign language, most significantly in the USA.

Spanish is spoken in Spain and many other countries including Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Tunisia, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela.

South and Central America are areas of major economic expansion, so there is a high demand for translation to and from Spanish.

Spain joined the European Union in 1986. Spanish is one of the languages of the European Parliament. Spanish is spoken by several people in Europe as a second or third language.

Spanish is one of the major languages for international business. Spanish is one of the languages more frequently translated by Comms Multilingual. Spanish translation projects have included work on training materials, advertisements, brochures, instructions for mobile phones, scripts, manuals, commercial documents, newsletters, typesetting and web sites.