Spanish uses the same Latin alphabet as English, with just two additions to learn: the ñ (with its tilde) and accented vowels — á, é, í, ó, ú — that mark stress. With more than 400 million speakers worldwide, it's one of the most useful scripts a child can pick up, and its closeness to English letterforms makes it an approachable starting point.
Not sure if Spanish is the right first script? The guide below covers why tracing should come before free writing, and how to tell if a close-to-English language like Spanish makes a better first foreign script than a script with unfamiliar letterforms.