- YLC Portuguese Message Board
Communicate with your tutor and classmates using the new audio/video
friendly Message Board. We
now use it for portfolios and speaking practice, too—see Blackboard for
log-in information.
- Yamada Language Center Holdings
Scola: News from Brazil is recorded daily, and from Portugal on the weekends.
Both are available on the VLL.
Other materials, including a small number of movies, are available for checkout.
- De
Tudo um Pouco
Online Portuguese beginner's
course at the University of Glasgow. Providing the differences between
Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese, this site offers wonderful
lessons in Portuguese ranging from beginner to advanced, useful pronunciation
pages and several links on Portuguese speaking countries.
- A
Língua Portuguesa
Informative and interesting...history
of the language, areas where it's spoken, and how it's evolved through
the centuries
- Portuguese
Resources
Here there are a diverse number
of links related to culture and history, city and country tours, media
resources, literature and language, and some other random, but useful
links
- BUBL
Catalog of Internet Resources
This is a catalog of internet
resources for Portuguese including dictionaries, online grammars,
lessons, literature,
literary developments in major Portuguese speaking countries, translating
services, and much more.
- Brazil - Brazil
Interesting potpourri of all things
Brazilian. This link goes to the page of popular sayings and expressions.
- See
our Language Guides for more resources
- CPLP
(Comunidade dos Paises de Lingua Portuguesa)
This site in Potuguese nicely lays out the countries where Portuguese
is spoken and gives geographical, cultural, political, historical,
and
economical
information and more about
each of them.
- The
Medeiros Web. Portuguese resources
Links to lessons, expressions recipes, language, history, and Portuguese
culture. (in English)
- Sergio
Koreisha's "Meu Brasil"
Geography, Environment, Sports,
Entertainment, Health, all about Brazil- This site has it all!
- True
Stories - Histórias de Verdade
Access true personal stories,
science and nature articles, as well as dictionaries and other tools
for translation. Side-by-side format shows both English and Portuguese
text. Extremely beneficial for practising both languages.
- Uns
Passos em Volta
Index to numerous cultural sites
from the University of Glasgow.
- Projecto
Vercial-Literatura Portuguesa
Marvelous site (in Portuguese)
devoted to Portuguese literature: Medieval, Classic, Baroc, Neoclassic,
Romantic, etc.
- Portugal Home
Pages
A collection of home pages about
Portugal. This site includes info about soccer, politics, current events
and pretty much anything about Portugal that you could ever want to
know.
- Os
Fazedores de Letras Jornal da Associação
de Estudantes da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
- Projetos
(Lingua Portuguesa)
What native speakers of Portuguese have difficulty with.
- 100
fill-in-the-blank tests in Portuguese
A wonderful site for
fostering your vocabulary.
- Online
Newspapers from Portugal
- Online
Newspapers from Brazil
- Your
Dictionary.Com A Global Language Resouce
This is a great link to Portuguese-Portuguese
specialty dictionaries with glossaries in areas such as engineering,
yoga, carnival, food, etc. Very comprehensive!.
- Traveller's
Dictionary
Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese dictionary
that's easy to use and offers a variety of other foreign languages.
- Português
Para Viajantes
Learn basic words, numbers, directions, places,
times and dates, etc... This page also includes Travlang's Portuguese-English,
English-Portuguese Dictionary)
- O Globo
- Jornal do Brasil
Politics, sports, economy, international
news, etc. Radio broadcasts from Brazil. Requires RealAudio.
- Radioclick
This site has tons of radio stations with lots of variety of music from
Gilberto Gil's bossa nova to classic rock and more. (All in Portuguese)
Three UO-sponsored programs through SIT in Belem, Fortaleza & Salvador (Brazil). Offer intensive language study: Portuguese, and a variety of experiences in areas such as natural resources management, social justice and public health. Contact OIP (330 Oregon Hall) or go to http://studyabroad.uoregon.edu for more information.
Language Studies Abroad has language programs ranging between 2 weeks and two months or more in Portugal and Brazil, with between 15 and 30 hours of instruction weekly. http://www.languagestudiesabroad.com/Search.cfm
Language Courses Abroad has comparable programs in Portugal and Brazil. http://www.languagesabroad.co.uk/prices.html
The National Registration Center for Study Abroad has a Cultural Immersion Homestay Program in Rio de Janeiro and the Fast Forward program for language in Maceio and Sao Paulo. http://www.nrcsa.com/
State University of New York (SUNY) has listings of a variety of international programs whose courses include language http://www.studyabroad.com/suny/
IAESTE has paid internships ranging between 4 and 52 weeks in duration, for science and engineering students, usually in at least their third year of college. http://www.planetedu.com/search/internships/paid/o2/p15
Middlebury College has a seven-week summer intensive language program. http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/portuguese/
UCLA has summer courses in Portuguese. http://www.summer.ucla.edu/
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