Portuguese for international business Course 210 million people

Course contents (Glocalization - Languages - French - Spanish)

• International business.
• International marketing (with audios).

Objectives:

• Improve their reading comprehension and develop reading comprehension skills.
• Build pronunciation and intonation skills
• Understand the information related to international business (letters, webs, email, news, ...)
• Improve the writing capabilities of Portuguese

Available Languages:

Learning Unit Summary:

For this course the students will need to have a basic knowledge of the Portuguese language (which includes basic vocabulary and grammar)

Summary:

Portuguese: Spoken by 210 million people, the seventh most widely spoken language, official in eight countries

Why study Portuguese?

• Spoken by over 210 million people, Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world.
• Portuguese is the official language of eight countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe and Timor-Leste, and an unofficial language in numerous linguistic islands in China (Macao) and India.
• There are over 1.3 million native speakers of Portuguese living in the United States.
• Since it is so important and so rarely studied, knowledge of Portuguese is a very marketable skill, especially in commerce and banking.
• The richness of literature in Portuguese is astonishing: from The Lusiads - the great epic poem of the European Renaissance, to the modern Brazilian novel - the best-kept secret in the Western Hemisphere.
• Brazil is the eighth largest economy in the world and features the Amazon jungle, huge urban cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and over 6,000 miles of beaches.

Reading and comprehension of Portuguese literature texts and articles.

• Cases of conversations I: international business: 100 bilingual conversations in Portuguese and English.
• Cases of conversations II (with audios): international marketing. 170 bilingual conversations in Portuguese and English. Example audio

At the end of the course, students will be able to translate texts with the help of the dictionary.

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