Wesley Pimentel:

Originally Answered: Why do most Brazilians speak English and not Spanish?

English is the main language of the world, Spanish is our closest sibling, so we don't study it very well, but now in touristic places (beaches) like Floripa and Itajaí there are many Argentinians, so, there, there are people that speak it.
Our television stations don't play Spanish songs.
And the majority of Brazilian population lives near the sea.

But I think we should listen to Spanish good music like Morat, Susana Cala, Mägo de Oz, Churupaca etc.

Paloma Mazaia:

I'm brazilian and I prefer studying english because it's the language more used in business and everywhere someone speak english and you can talk with others people. The spanish it's similar with portuguese a little bit, but has many differences. We can understand somethings.

André David:

In my personal experience, Spanish is inch tougher phonetically and I suspect there is also an aspect of being so close in some things that it is easy to make mistakes in the things that are different.

Robert Serrano:

Originally Answered: Why do most Brazilians speak English and not Spanish?

First of all most Brazilians speak Portuguese not English and if they do speak English they may learn it as a second language in school in Brazil.

Second of all most people in Brazil don't need to speak Spanish because they have a whole country to themselves where they can speak Portuguese 99%.

Spanish is not as popular in Brazil as it is in other countries in Latin America. Most Brazilians that do speak Portuguese speak a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish known as Portuñol or Portunhol.

John Plaut:

Originally Answered: Why does everyone speak English in Portugal? Why not Portuguese or Spanish?

You are lying. Not everyone speaks English in Portugal.

In fact, EVERYONE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE IN PORTUGAL, EXCEPT TOURISTS.

SPANISH IS THE LABUAGE OF Spin, not of Portugal.

Francis:

Many expats even report living there for many years and having no problems getting by with no Portuguese at all, such is the prevalence of English there due to tourism. Portuguese people immigrate a lot so a good part of the older population knows English.

Philip Quarrier:

Originally Answered: Why do most Brazilians speak English and not Spanish?

A person will want to learn something useful. It could be English, but in some parts of Brazil it will be Japanese or German. A Brazilian will likely understand Spanish, but If he replies in Portuguese, the Spanish speaker may not understand. Along the borders, some people on both sides will speak Portuñol, an ad-hoc mix. Read about Os Confederados, descendants of Americans who migrated after the Civil War.

Gary M Critser:

Originally Answered: Why do most Brazilians speak English and not Spanish?

Cause they just don’t want to speak Spanish when English is that more available!!!( or some other ludicrous reasoning point!!!)

Gary CRITSER, DO

Alfonso Garcia:

There is other important reason. It is a psychological reason. There are 570 million people that speak Spanish around the world. We don't need to study English.

Besides, we understand people that speak Portuguese and Italian if they speak slowly. So, we understand one billion people around the world in different degrees of understanding. For a lot of Spaniards is enough.

We think the same that a lot of British and American people.

Lara Ximenes:

Actually this is not true. A Portuguese teenager will likely have an easier time learning French or Spanish than English itself. Not my case though: I'm fluent in English while I'm not in Spanish... and I live on the border.

I guess teenagers develop a certain hate for the English language that I never managed to understand.