Portuguese I

Focus­ing on Brazil­ian Por­tuguese, this course will work towards the prac­ti­cal use of the lan­guage in every­day sit­u­a­tions, explor­ing vocab­u­lary and the fun­da­men­tal sounds of Brazil­ian Por­tuguese. Basic top­ics of gram­mar will be stud­ied to sup­port the con­ver­sa­tion­al top­ics. Con­ver­sa­tion­al top­ics will include: greet­ings and intro­duc­tions (for­mal and infor­mal), per­son­al infor­ma­tion (pro­fes­sion, age, ori­gin, hob­bies, etc), dai­ly rou­tine, time, num­bers, express­ing plans for the near future, etc. We will explore activ­i­ties to devel­op your lis­ten­ing, speak­ing, read­ing and writ­ing skills.