Português Intermediário 1
For continuing students of Português Básico 3
For New students who know the basic structure of Portuguese including present/past tenses, plus Presente e Futuro do Subjuntivo, upon filling out an application and an assessment form (the assessment link is given at the end of the application form) https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96
Continuing students: contact your instructor to get the registration link and skip the application form
New Students: New students are welcome to apply. The link to the Assessment is at the end of the application form. It should take about 20 – 30 minutes to be completed.
DETAILS
Click here to apply and fill out an assessment form – https://forms.gle/Niy8GHAsJJKcwyJ96
Continuing students: contact your instructor at [email protected] to get the registration link and skip the application form.
Português Intermediário 1 is an intermediate class with a focus on deepening listening, speaking and developing communication skills in Portuguese in a conversational style, without translating into one’s native language, to allow you to deepen the understanding of advanced verbs tenses, to have more vocabulary, composed verbal structures, and more elaborate conversations with Portuguese native speakers.
We will work with texts from Brazilian and other Portuguese-speaking revolutionary thinkers and writers. We will read about and discuss a few of the most important social movements in Brazil. This course has a fast approach for people who already speak basic Portuguese.
During the course we will use visual materials, music, literature, and conversation, focusing on Brazilian Portuguese, and we will also examine a few more differences between Brazilian, African, South Asian and European/Continental Portuguese. The program will deepen grammar structures in practical ways, and include writing and speaking exercises. We will engage with the history of Brazilian people, its revolutionary struggles, and other means of resistance.
You will learn about historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
Background information:
Portuguese is a language with roots in Portugal and also the official language spoken today in 10 countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Macau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese is arguably among the 9 or 10 most spoken languages in the world, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in its original home Portugal. It is estimated that 270 million people speak Portuguese today, amongst which nearly 254 million are native
speakers. It is the second most spoken Romance language, after Spanish. Brazil’s 211 million people is the largest Portuguese-speaking population in the world.
As a colonial language, it suffered many transformations, particular to each locale. It is nowadays also a result of cultural resistance of the indigenous and enslaved people during colonialism. It is spoken in the U.S particularly in the Northeast, in California and in Florida, where native Portuguese speakers, who are immigrants from Africa, South Asia, Europe and Brazil have concentrated historically. In nearby regions, it is more widely spoken in areas of Newark, New Jersey; Astoria, Queens; in the coastal regions of Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
If you have any questions, you can contact the instructor at: [email protected]
