Resources for learning Portuguese are widely available. In order to decide whether Portuguese is the right choice for you, below are some suggestions for how you can introduce yourself to the language and culture of the Lusophone world: Language At no other point in your life will you have four years to dedicate to learning a new language, so why not branch out from your A-levels and try something new? By the end of four years, beginners students attain the same level in Portuguese as in their post-A-level language (if studying two languages). Our first-year course is specially designed to support absolute beginners. Most of our students arrive in Oxford with no prior knowledge of Portuguese. Native speakers from Portugal and Brazil provide expert language teaching at all levels. We have specialists who cover literature from the Medieval period to the Present day, encompassing Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Unlike at most universities, here you can study Portuguese in combination with any of the languages offered at Oxford, or in the Joint Schools with English, History, Modern Middle Eastern Languages, Philosophy, or Classics. Our students feel part of a special community, as they have language classes, lectures, and tutorials with their peers studying Portuguese from across the university. In Oxford, Portuguese is taught in a small, but growing sub-faculty. Although famed for its beaches, being the birthplace of samba, and being fanatical about football, there is much more to discover about this complex and diverse country. The Portuguese changed the course of world history through their ‘discoveries’ in Africa, Asia, and South America during the 15th and 16th centuries.īrazil is the largest and fastest developing nation in South America and recently hosted the World Cup, the Olympics, and Paraolympics. Portugal is England’s oldest ally (by a treaty signed in 1386, when the King of Portugal took an English wife) and the two countries have been closely linked ever since. Studying Portuguese allows you to explore an amazing range music, films, books, and food and to converse with people from across the globe. Portuguese is one of the six most widely spoken world languages, with over 215 million native speakers worldwide in Portugal, Brazil, Africa and beyond, and is becoming ever more important as a language of commerce. Undergraduate Studies Why study Portuguese? We have a dedicated centre for Portuguese language teaching funded by the Camões Institute in Lisbon. Portuguese can be studied from scratch or post A-level in Modern Languages degrees and in Joint Schools ( see here). The Sub-faculty of Portuguese is a dynamic centre for teaching and research about the Portuguese-speaking world and is the only independent Portuguese department in the UK.
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