The official language in Venezuela is the Spanish, however numerous languages are spoken. The Spanish spoken in Venezuela is different to spoken in other countries like Spain. For example in Venezuela the Spanish verb conjugation is much easier due to some verb forms are omitted and there are less irregular verbs. Other languages Many languages have been brought to Venezuela due to various waves of immigrants such as Italian, Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese which is spoken in "Santa Elena de Uairen" by an important number of people due to the proximity with Brazil, in the same way; in Colonia Tovar (Aragua) some German dialect is spoken.
English is the most spoken language, it has a great demand and it is used mostly in business and education scenarios. It is used by professionals, academicians and part of high and middle society classes that utilize it as second language. It is taught in elementary and secondary schools in a very basic manner and in the superior education, it is taught in several university faculties.
Italian About 300.000 people from Italy moved to this rich country in oil in the second half of the XX century. These inhabitants made a linguistic contribution to Venezuela leaving lots of words to the local language.
French Unlike the English and Italian languages, these have less usage among the inhabitants of Venezuela. It is taught in high school and it is taught in certain universities during the superior education specially to students that are studying to become translators or a teachers.
Latin and GreekJust like French, Latin is taught in high school as a humanities subject.