From Introduction - Deciding to learn Spanish is one of the best decisions you can make if you want to travel and see the world. More than 400 million people around the globe speak Spanish. Inside the United States, Spanish is by far the most widely spoken language after English. There are currently about 30 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. Learning a language is more than just memorizing words and structures. When you study Spanish, you learn how the people who speak it think, feel, work and live. Knowing Spanish opens many doors.
McDougal Littell was founded in 1969 and initially published supplementary soft-cover textbooks for secondary English teachers. After its first soft-cover books for secondary English, they branched out into additional soft-cover books for secondary Social Studies. Through the years, they expanded their publishing areas to include Mathematics, World Languages and Science, as well as Language Arts and Social Studies. In 1994, McDougal Littell became part of Houghton Mifflin Company, headquartered in Boston, MA.