Brazilian Portuguese the last decades of the 20th century, due to the popularity of Brazilian music and Brazilian soap operas. Since Brazil joined Mercosul, the South American free trade zone, Portuguese has been increasingly studied as a foreign language in Spanish-speaking partner countries. Many words of Brazilian origin (also used in other Portuguese-speaking countries) have also entered into English: samba, bossa nova, cruzeiro, milreis and capoeira. While originally Angolan, the word "samba" only became famous worldwide because of its popularity in Brazil. After independence in 1822, Brazilian idioms with African and Amerindian influences were brought to Portugal by returning Portuguese Brazilians ("luso-brasileiros"
Brazilian Portuguese the present subjunctive. Thus, one should use different inflections according to the pronoun used as the subject: "tu" ('you', the grammatical second person with the imperative form) or "você" ('you', the grammatical third person with the present subjunctive): Currently, several dialects of BP have largely lost the second-person pronouns, but even they use the second-person imperative in addition to the third-person present subjunctive form that should be used with "você": Brazilian Portuguese uses the second-person imperative forms even when referring to "você" and not "tu", in the case of the verb "ser" 'to be (permanently)' and "estar" 'to be (temporarily)',