Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers Beginner is designed for Spanish-speaking students with no prior knowledge of the Brazilian Portuguese language.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Greet someone and ask how they are
- Introduce yourself and others
- Say what you study or what someone else studies
- Share your profession or that of another person
- Describe a classroom or office
- Say where you live and/or where you are from (and this information for someone else)
- Spell your name and other simple knowns
- Recognize and use numbers 1-100
- Name the days of the week and the months of the year
- Say the date of your birthday
- Say good-bye to people of different ages
- Ask questions to gather information about someone else
- Describe your family
- Share your nationality or that of another person
- Talk about your favorite pastimes or those of another person
- Talk about your likes and dislikes
- Tell time (in official and non-official time)
- Ask for and provide information
- Express needs, likes and dislikes
- Talk about daily activities
- Talk about basic plans for the weekend, holiday trip, vacation, moving to new home, changing jobs
- Ask about and express location
- Describe people (physical appearance and temperament), places and things
- Talk basically about his biography (place was born, city, family, profession, interests and hobbies)
- Order food in a restaurant
- Talk about arts and entertainment
- Describe possessions and conditions
- Express feelings and health conditions
- Read simple every day basic communicative dialogues, newspaper headlines, descriptive and factual short articles and texts, simple classifieds from newspapers and magazines.
The primary topics are:
- Greetings, introductions, and goodbyes
- Alphabet
- Professions
- Cardinal numbers 1-100
- Dates (days and months)
- Seasons
- Question words
- Family
- Physical and Character Descriptions
- Daily routine
- Hobbies
- Likes/dislikes
- Colors
- Telling time
- Cities, countries and states
- Political Map of Brazil- States and Capitals
- Animals
- Places
- Supermarket and Restaurant
- Food and meals
- Brazilian main cultural famous dishes
- Modes of transportation
- Types of housing
- Furniture
- Clothes and body accessories
- Most common health conditions
- Brazilian Eco-biomas
The primary grammatical topics are:
- Portuguese Alphabet and Brazilian Phonetics
- Subject pronouns
- Cardinal numbers
- Present tense of "ser" and "estar"
- Simple present tense regular verbs ending in "-ar," "-er," "-ir" (ex: morar, vender, abrir)
- Question words
- Gender and numbers
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Plural of nouns
- Descriptive adjective forms
- Article and noun agreement
- Possessive adjective forms
- Possession with "de"
- Contractions of "a," "de," and "em" with articles
- Antonyms
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Contractions of demonstrative pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Prepositions of place
- Imperative verbs
- Correlative conjunction neither...nor
- Introduction to some Brazilian Portuguese cultural and colloquial phrases (“Nossa!”, “Assim não dá”, “Negócio da China”, etc.)