No, the language of Brazil is Portuguese, or at least a variation of it. But apparently Brazilians are increasingly learning Spanish as a second language. Join the discussion with a South American who cares in our forum, and if you're really interested in the subject, you might try reading this somewhat dated scholarly Spanish-language article, El español en Brasil.
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You are wrong. The second language of Brazil is the english. We neither have spanish classes on school. And portuguese is not a variation of spanish. They are different languages.
Tiago get a clue.The fact is that Spanish is nowadays widely spoken in Brazil-I know it cause I have been there long time,and also my girlfriend is from Brazil and she Speaks Portuguese,Spanish and English.
The reason for this is that Mercosur(its sort of like EU)
But who cares lol,must go sleep,nn
Andrew, the name is Mercosul (MERcado COmum do SUL) and its more like NAFTA then EU. In the schools we have the choice. We can chose English or Spanish in high school as our second language, but most of people chose english. North Americans use to think that Spanish is our primmary language. Portuguese and Spanish are both Latin derivated languages, so as French and Italian, but they are very different. The Portuguese in Brazil is different of the Portuguese in Portugal. Its something like the difference between the English in USA an England.
TIAGO: First, Brazil doesn’t have a second “official” language; it’s not Canada. Second, the article says that “Brazilians are increasingly learning Spanish as a second language,” which is true, and NOT that Spanish is the language that the majority of Brazilians are learning as a second language. Compreende?
DANIEL: the name is Mercosur AND Mercosul; the trade organization has Spanish and Portuguese as official languages.
Can you guys check your facts first? And, can we expand on what was said in the article?
If it wasn’t for the Spanish, Brazil would have been conquered by the Dutch, French and English during the colonial days. Mighty Spain had to protect Brazil and help maintain it under Spanish and Portuguese control. Looking at it historically, whats wrong if the Spanish language proliferates throughout the great nation of Brazil.
Jorge Rodriguez if it wasn’t for Spain, Brazil would’nt be invaded by Dutch because Portugal and Dutch were allied in the colonial period. But due to the union between Portugal and Spain, the so called “Iberian Union”, dutches etablished a colony in Brazil for 30 years. The invasions of France in Brasil occurred before the Iberian Union.
Until now the “spanish language” is not the native language of Catalonia, Galicia and Basque Country. So “looking at it historically” it’s a error to think that the brazilians are obligated to speak spanish.
In spite of this I really wanted to learn spanish as well english…
if i speaks only english and some spanish, do you think it’s useful there??? now im thinking of learning some basic brasilian portuguese, so tell me what language is much more or the most profitable and useful in brasil between speanish and english. -
I guess that if you speak with somebody who belongs to a middle class maybe this person can be able to speak in english. But spanish is more similar to portuguese. If you really speaks spanish and have patience in using mimics… You would try to speak spanish.
I think Brazil should learn Spanish for their advantage because Brazil is the only non spanish speaking country in Latin Americaand it will make them stupid LoL… well remove the pride ok brazilians! learn spanish so that you will not be discriminated by other latin countries