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A basic foundation of lessons backed up with living with a Brazilian girlfriend who speaks no English

Well, most of of the TV series Xica can be found on YouTube chapter by chapter.

My advice is to put up a notice in the Letras building in your closest uni. Or find the relevant communities on Orkut and post something there. Good luck!

Originally posted by Claude85 Hi all, I'm moving to Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, soon and I'm looking for a language teacher to teach me portuguese in the area........ Also what sort of price should I be expecting to pay for private classes? I was told of a teacher in the area charging R$300 a month for 2 hours a week, is this cheap/dear/standard? My son ...

I'd say the British/American comparison is pretty good. The difference is even a little greater because they use the "tu" form in Portugual but not in Brazil. Portuguese from Portugal and Brazilians can understand each other well enough and I'm sure that once you learn one, if you expose yourself to the other a lot you can pick it up rather quickly. That is especially the ...

Hey Alex, how did you end up in the middle of Brasil?

doesn't babylon offer a toolbar solution like that? i seem to remember seeing that. also firefox might have one, not sure what you're using.

Some of the voluntourism groups such as Ikoporan provide you with shared housing, opportunities for group or private lessons and a way to get out into the community and practice your portuguese with the locals (although I'm not 100% sure you can classify what some favela residents speak as portuguese). I think their teacher overcharges a bit and is not that great. You...

I know of a teacher in Jacuma about 20-25 minutes from JP. She speaks English, Spanish, Portugeuse, French, German and Russian. If you want to follow it up let me know. Other than that, there are several schools in JP.