The minor in Portuguese focuses on Brazilian Portuguese but provides students with knowledge of the Portuguese-speaking world. The courses cover a variety of topics that are relevant to Brazil and ...

The list is long and has led the intellectual Lélia Gonzalaz, a leader in the Black Brazilian movement, to declare that Brazil doesn’t speak Portuguese, but rather, Pretugués (from preto, a ...

What You’ll Learn Watching Brazilian Movies These movies teach more than grammar—they attune your ear to actual Portuguese, such as regional dialects, slang terms, idioms, and cultural subtlety.

The origins of reduplication in Portuguese are hard to pin down. According to a paper in 2019 by Antonia Vieira, a Brazilian linguist, the first Portuguese dictionary, compiled by a priest in the ...