PDF #98 – Gustavo Rubino Ernesto – How English came to be Brazil’s second language
This paper will look on the events that let Brazil, a country with more than two hundred million people, to adopt a language that has never been directly influenced before over its five hundred years of history. Brazil has had many periods of mass migration, but it has never held an Anglo-Saxon flood of immigrants. This paper will also present in details the reasons and influences that led this gigantic country to choose English as its second language.