# PORTUG 11 - Beginning Portuguese II: Beyond Copacabana Semester: Spring | Year offered: 2026 | Link: [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-127863/2025/spring/12551) PORTUG 11 is a continuation of PORTUG 10 and helps you solidify your foundation in Portuguese by offering you opportunities to improve your linguistic skills in real contexts (via Teletandem), or close to authentic interaction situations, by interpreting and producing texts (oral, written, and multimodal) with various purposes. You will engage with literary work and examine aspects of Lusophone history and culture through music, film, literature, and social media. --- ## Course Head [### Cristiane Soares ](/people/cristiane-soares) Senior Preceptor in Portuguese Academic Degrees: Ph.D. in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory, UMass- Dartmouth; M.A. in Applied Linguistics, UMass- Boston; B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Roles: Coordinator of the... ![Cristiane](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-04/Screenshot%202025-04-15%20at%2010.28.54%E2%80%AFAM.jpg?itok=xE4RWgCf) See also:- [ Language ](/class-categories/language) - [ Portuguese language ](/keywords/portuguese-language) - [ Portuguese ](/language/portuguese) - [ Cristiane Soares ](/language-instructor/cristiane-soares) - [ Spring 2026 ](/class/term/spring-2026)