Id: 038871 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

Taught at a faster pace than a regular beginning course in Portuguese, is an introduction to the foundations of the Portuguese language and the cultural diversity of the Lusophone world for speakers of Spanish. Specific attention is devoted to the advantages and challenges that Portuguese presents to native or near-native speakers of Spanish. The course acknowledges that, in spite of the similarities between the two languages, there are important differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammatical structures. The course gives emphasis to all four language skill-listening, speaking, reading, writing-in order to achieve communicative goals. Portuguese is the language of instruction.

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: 54.212 Spanish 4 and Culture.

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