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Portuguese
Save Portuguese as a language-learning interest while level-specific, reviewed instruction is developed.
Current availability
The subject-specific curriculum is authored but not yet published for completion. Learners may inspect its scope and learning design now. Start, grading, and completion remain unavailable until every listed gate passes.
- qualified review approval is required
- reviewer identity, qualification, evidence, and approval date are required
- portuguese-a1-dialogues: required audio asset is not ready
- portuguese-a1-pronunciation: required audio asset is not ready
What this course establishes
- Exchange basic greetings with a locally appropriate and internally consistent form of address
- Introduce self and exchange core personal information
- Make a simple request and repair a misunderstanding
Entry knowledge
- No prior Portuguese required
- Ability to read or use an accessible alternative for short text
Scope boundaries
- Introductory A1-oriented interaction only; not fluency, interpretation, translation, CAPLE certification, nationality or immigration evidence, or professional-language qualification
Fastest competency route
No fluency or fastest-hour claim; acceleration depends on demonstrated listening, speaking, reading, writing, variety awareness, and interaction competence rather than isolated word recognition.
- Pass text, listening, pronunciation, variety-awareness, and interaction diagnostics after approved audio exists
- Complete greeting, introduction, and practical-request performances
- Correct meaning, grammar, spelling, register, variety, and repair-strategy errors in a final portfolio
Full self-paced route
- Greetings, address, spelling, and variety-awareness lesson with qualified-speaker audio
- Identity and information lesson
- Requests and communication-repair lesson
- Interaction portfolio, feedback, revision, and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
Saudações, formas de tratamento e variedades
Exchange basic greetings, choose a consistent form of address for a documented community, and recognize that Portuguese pronunciation and usage are pluricentric.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Apresentar-se e trocar informações
Exchange name, origin, residence, languages, and occupation using short accurate questions and answers while recognizing variant choices.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Pedir, agradecer e reparar a comunicação
Make a simple request, state non-understanding, and ask for repetition, slower speech, or spelling in a consistent variety and register.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
A1 Portuguese introductory interaction portfolio
Create three short Portuguese interactions—greeting, introduction, and practical request—in a labeled variety, with communication repair, English meanings, cross-variety comparison, and revision. Listening and pronunciation scoring remain unavailable until qualified-speaker audio is approved.
- Greeting exchange with a documented and consistent address pattern
- Identity exchange covering name, origin, residence, language, and occupation
- Practical request containing misunderstanding, repair, and confirmation
- Line-by-line English functional meaning and variety labels
- Pronunciation rehearsal notes tied to approved labeled audio once available
- Revision memo correcting grammar, spelling, meaning, register, or unintended variety mixing
Passing standard: 80 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- A1 listening across documented Portuguese varieties
- Present-tense verbs and noun/adjective agreement
- Everyday vocabulary
- Variant-specific address and pronunciation
- Guided conversation and short writing