Brazilian Portuguese Beginner 1 is designed for students with no prior Brazilian Portuguese knowledge or experience.
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)
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
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"