Languages Institute COURSE CONTENT
CREDIT-FREE PORTUGUESE, LEVEL 1 (25 hours)
Grammatical Structures
Communication Skills
 The alphabet & pronunciation
 Subject pronouns
 Greetings & farewells
 Definite and Indefinite Articles
 Introductions & levels of formality
 Adjective/noun agreements
 People: nationalities
 Possessive Pronouns
 Numbers 0-1,000,000
 Verbs: Ser, Estar, Ter, Ir, Fazer
 The calendar & important dates
 Ser vs Estar
 People: family & professions
 Regular verbs in the Present Indicative
 The weather & Seasons
 Irregular verbs in the Present Indicative
 Clothing
 Interrogative Sentences
 Eating Out: food vocabulary & ordering
 Negative & Affirmative Sentences
 Likes & dislikes
 Near future with Ir
 Travel: booking a hotel
 Present Progressive with the Gerund and
Estar a
 Directions: getting around town
 Shopping
 Health: expressing sickness
Note: Portuguese 1 is for true beginners.
CREDIT-FREE PORTUGUESE, LEVEL 2 (25 hours)
Grammatical Structures
Communication Skills
 In and around the house
 Demonstrative Pronouns
 Sports, hobbies & leisure activities
 Reflexive Verbs
 Shopping: going to the market
 Commands and the Imperative Tense
 Weather patterns & climates
 Regular Verbs in the Past Preterit
 Telling time & expressing hurry
 Irregular Verbs in the Past Preterit
 Eating out: making a complaint
 Ser vs Estar vs Ficar
 Health: expressing illness to the doctor
 Comparative
 Directions: getting around the airport
 Superlative
 Transportation: travelling by car, bus,
 Imperfect Past Tense
train & on foot
 Imperfect vs Preterit Past Tenses
 Prepositions of Time and Place
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