Brazilian Portuguese Beginner 2 is designed for students with some prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese. The primary focus of the course is on speaking proficiency, though grammar and reading are also covered.
Please note that the prerequisite for Brazilian Portuguese Beginner 2 is Brazilian Portuguese Beginner 1 or equivalent proficiency.
In addition to the cumulative material, after this course you will be able to:
- Express aspects of physical conditions and emotional states
- Give instructions
- Ask and give directions
- Read traffic signs
- Talk about furniture in a house
- Handle shopping for different items
- Recognize and use some colloquial language
- Use some idiomatic expressions
- Talk about activities done in the past
- Tell how long ago something happened
- Compare things and people
- Understand and use the nuances of the diminutive
- Talk about the future and make plans
In addition to the cumulative material, the primary topics covered are:
- Becoming sick
- Instructions and commands
- Colloquial and formal language
- Shopping
- Payment conditions
- Appliances
- Idioms
- Advertisement
- Descriptions (past)
- Habitual actions (past)
- Intentions (past)
- Comparing people and things
- Directions
- Planning (future)
- Ordinal numbers
In addition to the cumulative material, the grammatical topics covered are:
- Imperative tense
- Present and past tenses of irregular verbs (ex: dar, fazer, dizer)
- Indirect object nouns and pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Comparisons of equality and inequality
- The superlative
- The diminutive
- Idiomatic expressions
- Imperfect tense (preterit)
- Verbs saber and conhecer
- Reflexive verbs and pronouns
- Future tense
- Ordinal numbers