SELECT A PORTUGUESE COURSE THAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU
About Portuguese
Portuguese has around 250 million speakers, around 200 million of which are based in Brazil. An official language of Brazil, Portuguese is the official language of 9 other countries too including Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Portugal – including the Azores and Madeira, a group of 4 islands off the northwest coast of Morocco. Portuguese is also a co-official language in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau, or the “Las Vegas of the East” as it is popularly known.
Due to it’s wide geographical spread there are many variants of Portuguese. It’s diversity also means it has a rich literary and artistic heritage, such as the renowned poetic works of Luis de Camões and the world famous Fado music of Amália Rodrigues.
The Michel Thomas Method teaches European Portuguese, however the language is generally understood across all variants and dialects thanks to its overarching characteristics, for example the nasal pronunciation of the vowels ã and õ. Portuguese is part of the Romance language family and is most closely related to Spanish, Galician and Catalan.
Start Portuguese
LISTEN, ABSORB AND SPEAK PORTUGUESE NATURALLY
This 1-hour online Portuguese digital taster course is for beginners who are new to the Michel Thomas Method. Learn how to speak Portuguese from scratch by learning the 50 most common Portuguese words and how to put them together to make yourself understood. From the very beginning you will be able to construct simple phrases by listening and thinking out answers for yourself. During the course you will join Michel Thomas Method expert Portuguese teacher Virginia Catmur, plus a native speaker, and 2 students in a live lesson. You will learn at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary, and complete the course in about 3-4 hours. This digital course is available to stream or download via the Michel Thomas Method Library app. It is the first hour of the Foundation Portuguese course.
VIRGINIA CATMUR
Virginia Catmur grew up in a multilingual environment, and used her language skills working as a freelancer for various publishers. In early 2002 she met Michel Thomas while working for Hodder & Stoughton as a language editor – working alongside Michel in the studio, she edited his courses, and then managed the roll-out of the ‘post-Michel’ languages, commissioning and training other teachers who were similarly convinced by his Method.
Foundation Portuguese
LISTEN, ABSORB AND SPEAK PORTUGUESE NATURALLY
Foundation Portuguese is an 8-hour digital course that will give you basic competence in European Portuguese. The language is broken down into building blocks in such a way that you listen, speak, respond and move on to ever-more-complex essential Portuguese phrases. Within the first hour you will be able to construct simple Portuguese sentences. By the end of the course, you will have the confidence to understand and speak basic Portuguese. You will practice Portuguese at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary, and complete the online course in about 20-30 hours. This course is available to stream or download via the Michel Thomas Method Library app. This course incorporates the Start Portuguese course.
VIRGINIA CATMUR
Virginia Catmur grew up in a multilingual environment, and used her language skills working as a freelancer for various publishers. In early 2002 she met Michel Thomas while working for Hodder & Stoughton as a language editor – working alongside Michel in the studio, she edited his courses, and then managed the roll-out of the ‘post-Michel’ languages, commissioning and training other teachers who were similarly convinced by his Method.
Intermediate Portuguese
LISTEN, ABSORB AND SPEAK PORTUGUESE NATURALLY
Intermediate Portuguese is the next step in your language journey and follows on from the Michel Thomas Method Foundation Portuguese course. The online Portuguese lessons will build on your existing knowledge of European Portuguese as you join Michel Thomas Method teacher Virginia Catmur, along with a native Portuguese speaker and 2 students in a live lesson in which you are encouraged to participate. Your understanding of Portuguese will deepen as your knowledge expands by covering areas like different verb tenses and other basic grammar, all introduced in simple building blocks with the same no-pens, no memorizing method. You will learn at your own pace, pausing and repeating where necessary; it will take around 15-20 hours to complete this digital Portuguese course which is available to stream or download via the Michel Thomas Method Library app.
VIRGINIA CATMUR
Virginia Catmur grew up in a multilingual environment, and used her language skills working as a freelancer for various publishers. In early 2002 she met Michel Thomas while working for Hodder & Stoughton as a language editor – working alongside Michel in the studio, she edited his courses, and then managed the roll-out of the ‘post-Michel’ languages, commissioning and training other teachers who were similarly convinced by his Method.
Michel Thomas Portuguese Bundle
LISTEN, ABSORB AND SPEAK PORTUGUESE NATURALLY
If you’re serious about learning European Portuguese and ready to commit, then we want to help you. This collection brings together both the Michel Thomas Portuguese courses so you can achieve a solid working knowledge of Portuguese at a discounted rate of 20%.*
With our complete collection, you will…
- flourish in your Portuguese language learning journey.
- understand and be able to use the most common spoken verb tenses in Portuguese.
- acquire the most frequent and useful Portuguese vocabulary.
- speak Portuguese fluidly with proper pronunciation.
- be able to express yourself confidently in Portuguese in a variety of situations.
The Portuguese collection includes:
- FOUNDATION PORTUGUESE
- INTERMEDIATE PORTUGUESE
Make an investment in yourself. These two courses together are everything you need to speak European Portuguese to an intermediate level. You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it. These digital courses are available to stream online or download to the Michel Thomas Method Library app.
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