
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

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

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: 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
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