This beginning Portuguese course is designed for students with a strong background in Spanish (Spanish 40 or equivalent is recommended). The course presents the linguistic structures necessary for basic communication and emphasizes the most challenging features of the Portuguese language for Spanish Speakers including pronunciation, idioms, and grammatical structures unique to Brazilian Portuguese. You will use your knowledge in Spanish as a starting point to quickly develop basic vocabulary to ask questions, plan events, talk about your daily routine, and give information about yourself and others. You will engage in communicative and interpretive tasks, while exploring a variety of authentic material (e.g. short texts, music, videos, visuals) from various sources (e.g. social media, TV programs, YouTube videos). By the end of the semester, you will have developed the linguistic and cultural competence sufficient to express yourself, participate in conversations on familiar topics, and handle short social interactions in Portuguese. Speakers of other Romance languages are encouraged to take Portuguese 10.
