Latest news and stories about language learning in education in Portugal for expats and residents.
The municipality of Vila Nova de Poiares in the Coimbra district is launching a new Portuguese language course for foreign residents. Starting in September, the program is designed to help English-speaking expats improve their language skills and support their integration into the local community.
The National Education Council highlights that access to Portuguese as a Non-Native Language is insufficient, while the Council of Portuguese Communities prepares to discuss educational and electoral reforms with the government.
The president of the Camões Institute guarantees that she wants to focus on the “career and remuneration enhancement of teachers of Portuguese language abroad,” highlighting their role in education.
An expert welcomes a “historic moment” for the teaching of Mirandese language and culture. There are 565 students learning the language across the country. “It is a long-standing demand,” says Alfredo Cameirão.
According to the official in charge, the contents of this first learning manual were developed by Mirandese language teachers and specialists from the EMPLM and the Association of Mirandese Language and Culture (ALCM).
International residents looking to move beyond textbook Portuguese will be able to practise the language over coffee, on nature walks, with local craftspeople and even during the medronho harvest in The post Learn Portuguese in inland Algarve’s Querença appeared first on Portugal Resident.
In 'The Nature of Language', Alexandra Soares Rodrigues demystifies 'good Portuguese', addresses animal communication and AI, and recalls how a post-COVID pathology highlighted the importance of the voice.
From the mix of languages we hear on holiday to animal onomatopoeia around the world, Marco Neves explains how the brain processes sounds and how mastering multiple languages can be a superpower.
The Portuguese language ranked ahead of Russian, Korean, and Arabic, with 390 students from 43 secondary schools taking the Portuguese university entrance exam in the US.
The University of Coimbra is part of a new European initiative that provides a free resource to assist in teaching the Portuguese language to migrant and refugee populations.
The guide was published as part of the Communikite project, which includes the University of Coimbra. It provides a catalogue of non-verbal language and testimonies from other migrants.
Document presents practical activities to promote linguistic and cultural inclusion.
A personal reflection on maintaining the Portuguese language and cultural connection while living abroad.
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A new complete Portuguese language beginner’s course starts this month at the Europa Algarve language centre in Loulé. Mary Jo Morgan from Europa Algarve said: “The advantage of group lessons The post Language lessons appeared first on Portugal Resident.
Portugal is a small country, yet it remains a global power through its language, spoken by over 260 million people. However, the professionals who teach and promote Portuguese abroad—the country's cultural ambassadors—are facing increasing job insecurity, poor working conditions, and inadequate pay. This article argues that if Portugal views its language as a strategic asset, it must support these educators, much like other nations invest in their own cultural institutions, rather than neglecting the very people who keep the language alive on the global stage.
A university in Venezuela has officially reopened its centre dedicated to the study and promotion of the Portuguese language.
The 'Pedagogical Journey' workshop is being held over two days at the University of Mainz and aims to discuss the challenges related to the introduction and consolidation of Portuguese in German educational systems.
The workshop “Pedagogical Journey -- Portuguese as a Foreign Language in German schools” brings together teachers from various levels of education, researchers, and educational officials.
Visiting Macau, Fernando Alexandre guarantees that the Portuguese AI model has been showing positive results. It offers “greater rigour across the entire dimension of language and culture” and will be improved by the Portuguese-speaking world.
Allow me to explain. If one has tried to learn even the basics of Portuguese language, one will understand that ‘alto’ means tall or high. It is masculine, and ‘alta’ The post Towards Alta appeared first on Portugal Resident.
CLCC – Centro de Línguas, Cultura e Comunicação has announced its new partnership with the British Council as an IELTS Official Partner Testing Point, and will begin administering IELTS exams The post CLCC becomes official IELTS centre in partnership with British Council appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The President of the Republic, António José Seguro, and Prime Minister Luís Montenegro attended an event with Portuguese-speaking students in Luxembourg as part of the Portugal Day celebrations. “Portugal is always with open arms to welcome you,” Seguro told the Portuguese community. The President and Prime Minister argued that learning the Portuguese language is an investment, and Montenegro guaranteed that the Government will do everything to “ensure conditions” for those who continue to want to teach Portuguese abroad. The President called for Luxembourg to expand the curricular option for teaching Portuguese.
Experts discuss whether the exposure to Brazilian Portuguese content is impacting the language development of children in Portugal, concluding that it is not a cause for alarm.
The “Babel Classroom” platform allows teachers to lecture normally in Portuguese, while their speech is automatically transcribed and translated in real-time into up to four languages.
The 1990 Orthographic Agreement returns, and will return, just as poorly resolved problems always do. They tried to convince us that the matter was closed. It is not.
The University of Macau (UM) has announced that applications for the 40th Portuguese Language Summer Course are open until June 5th, with the course taking place between July 6th and 24th.
Applications are open until June 5th.
The new ambassador of Portugal to Canada highlights the promotion of the Portuguese language in the education system as a key objective of his mandate.
Bernardo Lucena visited Toronto between May 14 and 17 and met with the Ontario government. Cuts in Catholic schools could distance 2,200 students from integrated Portuguese language education.
