Los Angeles Times publishes a book review on "The Story of Spanish", where its authors, Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, explore the passionate and contradictory backstory of the language of millions of speakers and the unofficial second language of the United States.

“As the authors of The Story of Spanish point out, Americans study Spanish more than any other language,” says Hector Tobar on the book review. “But today, many Americans are deeply ambivalent about it. To some, it's a language of backwardness spoken by people who've entered the country illegally who steal American jobs; Americans who study Spanish do so mostly because they need it for work — or so the thinking goes.”

Read the complete book review here.