Welcome – Bem-vindos!

Alexandra Lourenço Dias would also like to say hi. She is a lecturer at King’s College and has produced one of our videos in Week 1: Language awareness Brazil – Portugal.

Listen: Olá. Eu sou a Alexandra e sou portuguesa. = Hi. I am Alexandra and I am Portuguese.

We are excited to have you on board! We hope that by the end of this 2-week taster you feel you have achieved significant learning and enjoyed the process. Weeks 3 to 10 are available to those who would like to take part in the microcredential course, which should start in January 2022. Enrolments will be available closer to the starting date here on FutureLearn.

This course is designed for complete beginners. However, if you have some basic experience with Portuguese, you may benefit from some new content and more practice.

You will soon be asked to introduce yourself in Portuguese. For now, we would love to know more about you. In the comments below, use English to share some information with us:

1. Why you would like to learn Portuguese.

2. What language(s) you speak.

3. Any particular interest in anything related to the countries/territories that have Portuguese as an official language: Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea Bissau and Macao.