FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
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Portuguese Language Course
Portuguese Language Program Objective
The Boston Language Institute, New England’s leading language school, offers Portuguese language courses to individuals and companies. The quality of instruction provided in our Portuguese language classes are on a par with the best native Portuguese language school.
We consider it to be the major goal of our program to have you use Brazilian Portuguese in as large a variety of real-life situations as possible. To that end, our Brazilian Portuguese courses have been designed to build fluency in both the spoken and the written language. Communication in a warm and relaxed environment is an important feature of our programs, as is homework, which includes exercises for review and practice of the material taught in class. Moreover, by keeping the class size limited to twelve students, we ensure that each student will be able to actively participate.
Portuguese Level 1
Upon completion of this course, students can expect to be able to hold basic conversations about their daily activities using present and future tenses. This course aims to provide beginning students with a practical command of the vocabulary and grammar of the language. Topics include phonetics, expressions of time and quantity, subject pronouns, articles, possessives, interrogatives, and the present indicative, present progressive and compound future tenses of common verbs.
(Portugues Basico Para Estrangeiros (2nd Edition) by Rejane De Oliviera Slade)
Portuguese Level 1
Upon completion of this course, students can expect to be able to hold basic conversations about their daily activities using present and future tenses. This course aims to provide beginning students with a practical command of the vocabulary and grammar of the language. Topics include phonetics, expressions of time and quantity, subject pronouns, articles, possessives, interrogatives, and the present indicative, present progressive and compound future tenses of common verbs.
(Portugues Basico Para Estrangeiros (2nd Edition) by Rejane De Oliviera Slade)
Portuguese Level 2
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to converse with greater ease on an increasing range of topics as well as being able to read and write longer texts. Building upon the basic foundation provided in Level 1, topics include prepositions, contractions, irregular verbs, demonstrative pronouns, ordinal numbers, adverbs, pronouns and tag questions. Students develop their ability to conjugate verbs in the preterit imperfect, preterit perfect, past progressive and present indicative verb tenses.
(Portugues Basico Para Estrangeiros (2nd Edition) by Rejane De Oliviera Slade)
Portuguese Level 3
Building upon the skills studied in Level 2, students rapidly expand their vocabulary and begin to express themselves more precisely as they learn to use the simple future, past perfect and subjunctive tenses. Among the topics introduced at this level are idiomatic expressions, object pronouns, reflexive verbs, comparative and superlative forms, telling time, adverbs, and the passive voice.
(Portugues Basico Para Estrangeiros (2nd Edition) by Rejane De Oliviera Slade)
Portuguese Level 4
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to discuss with greater precision topics including Southeastern and Southwestern Brazil, travel, study, work and festive occasions. Building upon the skills already acquired, students study reflexive verbs and pronouns, linking words, adjective and adverb clauses, diminutive and augmentative forms, and the preterit future tense.
(Portugues Basico Para Estrangeiros (2nd Edition) by Rejane De Oliviera Slade)
Portuguese Level 5
For students who wish to further expand their skills, this course introduces more advanced topics including the compound subjunctive and the personal infinitive. This course helps students to tie together all the elements of grammar and usage covered up to this point. Students practice and refine their skills by discussing topics including Southern Brazil, media, sports and other social activities, clothing, parts of the body and health.
(Portugues Basico Para Estrangeiros (2nd Edition) by Rejane De Oliviera Slade)
Conversational Portuguese
This program is designed for students who are already proficient in the skills taught in Levels 1-5 and who want to increase their conversational abilities. Conducted entirely in Portuguese, this course provides students with an opportunity to markedly improve their speaking and listening skills. Magazines, video and audio tapes, and other resources designed to provide practical opportunities for vocabulary and skill development are selected to match student interests. Grammatical topics are addressed as needed.
