Portuguese Online

Here you will find sites where you can either learn your first Portuguese words or practice and deepen what you already know.

At www.saunalahti.fi/~huuhilo/portuguese you will find essential Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary together with grammatical explanations.

And to have some fun while learning some survival Portuguese for travellers go to: www.travlang.com/languages/
www.travlang.com/languages/europortuguese

If you would like to have a "pen-friend", someone to exchange ideas with in Portuguese, or another European language, via the net, check out:
www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html

You can also become a member of the club "Amigos do Português", courtesy of the Institute of Portuguese Studies at the University of Macau, at www.umac.mo/ips/clube and chat your evenings away in Portuguese or complain about not being able to do so yet!

The University of Glasgow offers "De tudo um pouco", a beginner's course,
at http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/PortLang/.

Instituto Camões which is the institution in Portugal entrusted with the promotion of the Portuguese Language and Culture has now a Virtual Language Centre where you find plenty of reading materials in Portuguese and enter competitions online.