Portuguese Classes at our Orange County Language Door School in Irvine. Serving students in Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Laguna Beach California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door Orange County offers small interactive Portuguese classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Portuguese fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Please check the schedule.
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
Portuguese
Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-6)
Topics - Greetings and introductions, asking for
information, clock time, dining out, weather, months, and seasons, and at
the movie theater.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, the verbs "to be", negation, gender and number of
nouns and adjectives, subject pronouns, articles, question words, time,
numbers, present tense of regular verbs, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 7-12)
Topics - The body and health, family members,
groceries, at the train station, eating in a restaurant, and making a
collect call.
Grammar and usage - Irregular verbs, possessive pronouns and adjectives, near future,
common prepositions, contractions, adverbs, other questions words, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 13-19)
Topics - Renting an apartment, at the pharmacy,
daily activities, at the bus station, at the airport, renting a car, and at
the office.
Grammar and usage - Object pronouns, reflexive verbs, reflexive object pronouns,
reciprocal object pronouns, comparatives, polite commands, relative
pronouns, superlative, begin preterite, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-26)
Topics - At the park, at the doctor's office, at
the dentist's, at the beauty parlor, at the theater box office, at an
antiques store, and looking for a job.
Grammar and usage - Additional irregular verbs, present conditional, additional preterite, "let's" command, ordinal numbers, imperfect tense, past
progressive, professions, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 27-33)
Topics- At the post office, at the travel
agency, at the bank, at the currency exchange office, at the police station,
watching television, and at the movies.
Grammar and usage - The present and past perfect tenses, expressions, sending letters,
faxes, and telegrams, future tense, future perfect tense, present
conditional, conditional perfect, passive, subjunctive, etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 34-40)
Topics - Sports, at the hotel, the media,
holidays and festivals, politics and rights, household errands, and visiting
Brazil.
Grammar and usage - Additional subjunctive tense, augmentatives, imperfect
subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive, past perfect subjunctive, slang
and colloquial expressions, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels,contact our Orange County Language Door School in Irvine.
Feedback from Our Students
"Great teacher! I was stuck in a rut with my Portuguese. Fernanda [the
teacher] gave me several new techniques
and activities that I hadn't thought of to really increase my ability to understand and write the language better.
Her class is a good combination of conversation, reading, writing, grammar... and fun,"
Blair.
"Learning from the book, the teacher is excellent. She always makes sure that I am comfortable and clear on what I am learning,"
Brandon.
"Good course and teacher. Excellent emphasis on pronunciation,"
Dan.
"Great so far. Everything I have learned in four weeks would have been great to know last time I was in Brazil,"
Matt.
"It's fun. The teacher is animated and engaging. I think my pronunciation is improving,"
Charles.
"I like the pace of the class and that we focus on what people really say when in Brazil. Agda has a good teaching style in that she caters to the pace and interests of the students,"
Sam.
"I love this class! [It's] my first time learning a foreign language and it has been very fun,"
Adam.
"Very fun course! Agda makes the course interesting and fun at the same time. We cover just the right amount of material in each class,"
Enrique.
"Great teacher, very interactive, each lesson builds upon each other,"
Gary.
Language Description
Portuguese is spoken as a first language by about 170 million people. In
Brazil, there are approximately 154 million speakers, while there are 11
million speakers in in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic.
Further Information
For further information about Orange
County Portuguese classes, San Diego Portuguese classes, San Fernando Valley Portuguese classes or Los Angeles Portuguese classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
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