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Using your Kindle device to learn Portuguese

Using your Kindle device to learn Portuguese

With over 1,400 titles about Portuguese language written in English or in Portuguese, it has never been so easy to practise Portuguese at home or on the go, if you have a kindle device or a tablet. Since purchasing a Kindle device, I started to explore the possibilities to download tittles in Portuguese in order to catch up with the thriving literature of Portugal, Brazil and Angola. What I found was surprising: many tittles written in English about Portuguese language that I

Learning Portuguese with Films

Learning Portuguese with Films

Every Portuguese language learner already knows that films are excellent for listening to native speakers and observing how Portuguese sounds in real contexts. Films also help increase your cultural understanding and appreciation of the Portuguese speaking world, you will discover fascinating and unusual movies that will give you an insight into another way of life. There is a long-going debate about whether watching a film with subtittles actually helps the learner to under

How to use a dictionary - a guide.

How to use a dictionary - a guide.

Let's learn how to use a dictionary and make the most from this valuable tool! Google translate is a superb tool, however, it cannot compare to the wealth of information you can get from a word when you look it up in a dictionary. As a student of Portuguese language, you already know that some words in Portuguese will be "masculine" or "feminine" - this will be decisive when choosing between "do or da" (when you mean "of" or "from") or "no and na" (when meaning "in the") . M

Free Courses in Portuguese Language

Free Courses in Portuguese Language

Do you want to practise Portuguese language as you learn a new skill or expand your knowledge base? There are many Brazilian and Portuguese institutions that offer FREE or reduced fee online courses open to everyone. You will need to have a good command of Portuguese language and be able to understand spoken and written language at a high intermediate/advanced, however, if you are finishing your Intermediate 2 course you may be able to understand the syllabuses of many non-ac

Practise Portuguese with native speakers!

Practise Portuguese with native speakers!

Some of our Portuguese students in Essex don't have enough Portuguese speaking and listening practice outside the classroom, which can slow their progress in these 2 skills. Having this in mind, I have researched some websites that offer language exchange between native speakers of English and Portuguese as a way to promote speaking and listening practice in a fun way! It is important to note that these language exchange communities are aimed to Intermediate learners. Tande

It is time you joined Duolingo!

It is time you joined Duolingo!

Duolingo is a language learning website and app. It offers courses (as of this writing) in Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian. Duolingo is free of charge, I really like their motto " Language for all", I recently learned that it generates revenue from its users translating real-world content in the Immersion section. Clever, eh? At Portuguese on Demand we started to use Duolingo as an extra tool for our classes in 2014. Since then, many students have

Book: O Menino Maluquinho

Book: O Menino Maluquinho

Today I would like to speak about this wonderful little book written by Brazil's most famous cartoonist and writer, Ziraldo, whose books have sold about ten million copies, have been translated to many foreign languages and adapted to the theater and cinema. O Menino Maluquinho (The Nutty Boy) is a series of comic book and comic strip published in 1980 that became a phenomenon during the decades 1990 and 2000, receiving movies, plays and TV series The stories revolve around

Book: Évora e o Alentejo Central

Book: Évora e o Alentejo Central

Have you ever been to Évora? Évora is the finest example of a city of the golden age of Portugal after the destruction of Lisbon by the earthquake of 1755. The cityscape of Évora demonstrates the influence exerted by Portuguese architecture in Brazil, in sites such as Salvador de Bahia. Évora e o Alentejo Central In this book you will learn more about the beautiful city of Évora and the region where it is located in Portugal, the Alentejo. This nice layout makes from this boo

GCSE Portuguese Vocabulary App

GCSE Portuguese Vocabulary App

Calling all students of GCSE Portuguese! . We found an app available in Apple Store and also on Android shop that you can donwload onto your mobile or ipad and use it to test you in Foundation and Higher Tier vocabulary which has over 1465 words as defined in OCR syllabus. See a list of the required vocabulary here. We all know how daunting vocabulary learning can be when preparing for the GCSE test and every new tool that can help us to achieve a good vocabulary level is w

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