Portuguese 102 is currently offered in 2023 Term 2 on Monday evenings from 5:30-7:00pm (New Zealand time).
The first class is held on Monday 1 May and continues for eight consecutive weeks. The last class of the Term is held on Monday 19 June 2023.
Check below for the time zone equivalents for live-streaming our class from New Zealand to your location:
for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand. If your Time Zone doesn't suit our live-streamed class, you can also access our courses by watching the live-recorded sessions that are posted to the course webpage each week, usually the next day.
Honolulu, Hawai’i: begins Sun 30 Apr 2023, 7:30-9:00pm
US Pacific: begins Sun 30 Apr 2023, 10:30-12:00am
US Eastern: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 1:30am-3:00am
London, UK: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 6:30-8:00am
Paris, France: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 7:30-9:00am
New Delhi, India: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 11:00am-12:30pm
Bangkok: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 12:30 - 2:00pm
Singapore: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 1:30-3:00pm
Tokyo, Japan: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 2:30 - 4:00pm
Sydney, Australia: begins Mon 1 May 2023, 3:30-5:00pm
Please note that this course will only be offered if sufficient numbers register. Please contact us if you are unsure about registering. If you do register, and this course is cancelled due to low enrolment, please be advised that we will refund your tuition in full.
Portuguese is spoken by approximately 250 million people around the world; it provides direct access to the Portuguese, Brazilian, Angolan and Mozambican cultures, to name the most prominent ones. As a “gateway language,” it allows you to understand countless words in Italian, French and Romanian, and right from the start you will be able to grasp much of written Spanish.
Our Introductory Portuguese 102 course continues to teach basic everyday vocabulary and expressions, always with a view to empowering learners so that they feel encouraged to build their own sentences. Continued introductory grammar and vocabulary are taught, with an aim to increase one’s reading and writing abilities and to improve conversation skills. A good portion of the learning will happen through songs and selected poetry. Every class has its culture tip moment, in which the cultural differences between Portuguese-speaking countries and the Anglosphere will be discussed.
This class is a hybrid class with both in-person sessions in our classrooms and streamed live via Zoom.
This course has distance-learning options for those unable to attend the live class sessions in Hamilton. Students have three options for attending our courses once they have registered:
Attend in-person classes in our Hamilton classrooms at the regularly scheduled day and time.
Attend our live on-line classroom sessions via Zoom at the regular scheduled day and time.
Watch the live-recorded class sessions at your leisure, at a time, day and place more suited to your schedule.
In addition to our in-person classes in Hamilton, our courses offer distance learning options for those unable to attend classes in-person. Live-streamed Hamilton classes are available via free Zoom software for those living outside the Waikato. Live-streaming allows you to participate fully in your own learning, ask questions of the instructor and participate fully in the same way as if you were in the physical classroom.
Those unable to attend the scheduled date and time of the actual class sessions, or those who need to miss a class or two due to previous engagements or unexpected illness, can watch any or all of the live-recorded video sessions on their computers, laptops, tablets or mobile devices and study at their own pace and in their own time.
Detailed instructions on how to access our distance learning components will be sent after completing your registration. There are no additional fees for this service. However, distance learners will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a good quality web-camera (tablet devices and mobile phones can also access our live-streamed classes), a built-in microphone (most modern laptops have built-in microphones) or a headset with a microphone. You will also need to download and install the free Zoom software on your computer or device. Those accessing the video recordings will be able to do so with a simple web browser on any device.
Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here after 1-2 days after each class.
EarthDiverse Course Information
EarthDiverse Zoom instructions
20230501 T2.1 Portuguese 102 PDF
20230501 T2.1 Portuguese 102 video
Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time either in-person or via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are posted within 24 hours of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning session on a day and time of your choosing.
An Introductory Brazilian Portuguese textbook, written by the Course Instructor, Cristina Schumacher, will be used throughout the course and is included in the course fees. This will be supplemented by additional materials containing a collage of exercises. You will require a pen or pencil, a notebook for taking notes, and perhaps a recording app on your phone to record yourself and your spoken progress. Any notes that your instructor writes on the class digital whiteboard will be posted to the course webpage as a digital PDF file so that you can print these out at home and add them to your own notebook.
Other resources you may wish to consider are:
Portuguese. One Minute An Hour (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (Portuguese Brazilian), paperback by Cristina Schumacher
Português na Prática Para Falantes de Inglês (Portuguese Brazilian), paperback by Francisco Araujo da Costa
Falar… Ler… Escrever… Português – Um Curso para Estrangeiros, Emma Eberlein and Samira Iunes
Novo Avenida Brasil 1, Emma Lima, Lutz Rohrmann, Tokiko Ishihara, Samira Iunes and Cristián Bergweiler
There are no prerequisites for this course.
