PORTUG 11S - Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers II: More SAMBA, less Salsa!

Semester: Spring
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Year offered: 2026
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PORTUGUESE 11S is a continuation of PORTUG 10s and keep on exploring semantic, grammatical, and phonological features of Portuguese that are most challenging for Spanish Speakers. This course will help 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

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