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Each module is eight weeks. No books are required. Handouts will be provided and extra charge might apply.
Beginners 1
If you are still unsure whether Portuguese is the language for you, or if you are just starting from scratch, the Beginners 1 is perfect for you.
The Beginners 1 will give you a good idea of the language and its grammatical and phonetic patterns. In this level you will learn to talk about yourself, your job and your family. You will be able to use the language to communicate in familiar situations and obtain the basic things you would need to survive in a Portuguese-Speaking Country! (Perfect for those planning an upcoming holiday!)
Portuguese for Beginners
- Beginners 2
- Beginners 3
- Beginners 4
- Beginners 5
These levels are appropriate for people who are interested in studying the language in more depth and going beyond basic expressions and grammatical structures.
In these levels you will learn:
- How to go to a restaurant or a bar and order food and drinks
- How to go to a hotel and get a room
- How to go shopping and use the main expressions to get what you want
- Food preferences, recipes, menus and shopping list
- Likes and dislikes about hobbies
- How to move around in a city and ask for, and use, directions
- To express your daily routines and habitual actions
- To describe physical states and states of mind
- To describe professions and activities related to them
- To express plans and desires
- How to make comparisons of quality and inequality
- How to communicate using past tense.
Portuguese Pre-intermediate Levels
- Pre-intermediate 1
- Pre-intermediate 2
- Pre-intermediate 3
- Pre-intermediate 4
- Pre-intermediate 5
The Pre-Intermediate levels are a good introduction to a bit more complex structures. After completing these levels, you will be able to talk, write, read and listen to a variety of a bit more complex topics, and generally feel more confident in speaking conversational Portuguese.
These levels are more challenging because they involve a bit more complex structures that are used in daily communication in the Portuguese language, such as:
- Structures that will allow you to express topics related to daily routine, housework, finding a place to live, accepting and rejecting invitations
- Useful expressions regarding travelling, shopping, bargaining, weddings, and accidents
- Communicating using future tense and conditional structures.
Portuguese Intermediate Levels
- Intermediate 1
- Intermediate 2
- Intermediate 3
- Intermediate 4
- Intermediate 5
If you have studied Portuguese at several institutions and followed different books and still have some gaps in grammatical structures and lack of confidence and fluency, these are the levels that will help you improve your Portuguese skills by having more challenging conversations on various interesting topics.
Portuguese Upper Intermediate Levels
- Upper Intermediate 1
- Upper Intermediate 2
- Upper Intermediate 3
- Upper Intermediate 4
- Upper Intermediate 5
If your goal is more ambitious and you would like to speak Portuguese fluently (and you already have some experience speaking Portuguese) then this is the level for you.
In this level you consolidate grammatical structures that have been studied in previous levels and revises all the knowledge gained throughout all the Basic, Pre- Intermediate and Intermediate levels.
After the Upper Intermediate level, you will be able to:
- Read longer articles from magazines, newspapers and internet articles
- Understand quite a lot when watching movies
- Listen to music and understand the main idea and pick up quite a few words
- Sustain a conversation well with native speakers on relatively easy topics.
Portuguese Advanced Levels
- Advanced 1
- Advanced 2
- Advanced 3
- Advanced 4
- Advanced 5
This is the level where you master the language and you speak Portuguese fluently.
Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking skills are applied in a confident way. You are able to understand and communicate with native speakers, understanding their culture, their accent and their slang.
Chit Chat – Levels 1 and 2
Our conversation classes are called Chit-Chats.
No books are required – Material will be provided.
Chit Chat 1: Students must have completed all basic and Intermediate levels in Portuguese Language, or their equivalent and/or have lived or studied in an Portuguese-Speaking Country.
Chit Chat 2: Students must be at a Superior level of Portuguese. They will have finished all the Advanced levels or their equivalent and/or have lived or studied in an Portuguese-Speaking Country. Students are able to speak fluently with native speakers.
Our courses are available at all levels from Beginners to Advanced and are structured taking into account the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels used by all well known European Language Centres worldwide.
VCE Preparation
'Get all the help you need to take you through your Portuguese VCE EXAMS and get the highest mark!'
Help and preparation for the Portuguese VCE to students years 11 and 12 is available with a native, qualified, experienced VCE Teacher. We will help you with all your VCE needs.