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Actually, and unfortunately, the influence of Spanish in Brazil is much less than in the U.S.A.To understand why, look at the maps below, of the population density of South and North America.In South America, the only places where Brazilian and Spanish-speaking populations are actually in contact is in the South of Brazil’s borders with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. To give a sense of the distances involved here, if you live in Recife, located in northeastern Brazil, you’d be more than 3000 km (almost 2000 miles) away from the closest Spanish-speaking town.That’s a longer distance than from Paris to Moscow! So, to ask someone in Recife how does it feel to be surrounded by Spanish-speaking people makes less sense than asking a Parisian how it feels to be surrounded by Russians (and, in fact, I’ve heard much more Russian spoken in Paris than Spanish in Recife).On the other hand, in the U.S., states such as California, Texas and Florida - three of the most populated states - really border (in the case of Florida with a small strip of sea in between) significantly large Spanish-speaking communities. That also means that they do have many more Spanish-speaking immigrants than most of Brazil does.In regards to Brazil, except for these pockets in the South - such as west of Parana, south of Rio Grande do Sul and the coast of Santa Catarina - the Spanish-speaking communities and influence are small to non-existent. There’s no important Spanish-speaking radio station, artists from the rest of the continent very rarely become popular in Brazil, and, in general, Brazilians don’t really feel like they are a part of “Latin America” (which is usually used in opposition to “Brazilian”, and meaning “Spanish-speaking Latin American”).The only real common language between Brazil and its neighbors is football (soccer). Tournaments such as Copa Libertadores and Copa America, and the fact that, having the richest league in the continent, Brazil imports a lot of talent from the rest of South America help us to see ourselves as, if not really Latin Americans, part of the South American school of football.EDIT: An additional piece of information to how distant cities like Recife are from any Spanish-speaking city, the closest Spanish-speaking capital to Recife is Asunción, Paraguay, which is 2000 miles away, i.e. almost exactly as distant to Recife as Liberia (in Africa) is.

No, the vast majority of Brazilians couldn’t speak Spanish to save their lives. What Brazilians do in the presence of Spanish speakers though, is try to speak some kind of freestyle hybrid thing, due to the similarity between the two languages.Depending on the speaker, this could be anything from Portuguese with what they think sounds like a Spanish accent to some kind of broken Spanish filled with Brazilianisms.I know it sounds logical that many Brazilians would know Spanish, as Brazil is surrounded by Spanish speaking countries. However, most of the major population centers in Brazil are very far away from any other country and border areas are mostly dense jungle, wide rivers or swamps.As you can see on this map, Brazil has always literally had its back towards its neighbors, as it’s grown facing the Atlantic ocean. Historically, it was colonized by a different power and culturally it’s never been significantly influenced by Hispanic culture.Brazilian culture is very insular. About 90% of the music played on the radio is local and sung in Portuguese and the same goes for TV, except for a few Mexican Soap Operas, which are dubbed anyway.I remember watching a Mexican comedy show called El Chavo del Ocho as a kid and having no idea it was Mexican. As far as I was concerned it was called Chaves and made in Brazil.So, most Brazilians are as removed from their Spanish speaking neighbors as people in the American Midwest are from Mexico. Maybe more so, because unlike the US, in most of Brazil you won’t find significant Spanish speaking immigrant communities - if any at all - so people may have even less contact with the Spanish language than the average American.Not to mention that despite being just one country, Brazil is huge, actually bigger than all of its neighbors combined, both in area and population, which contributes to this cultural isolation.

It’s not a fucking LISP!A lisp is a speech impediment. The θ sound in Castilian Spanish isn’t a speech impediment, it’s the correct local pronunciation for “z” and the soft “c”.Or do you call the “th” sound in English a lisp? The English lisp?Sorry if I don’t have patience for this nonsense but this has been asked ad nauseam on Quora, it’s getting tiring already.