Here's a the address to the Universidade in Lisbon with a link to the summer program
http://www.ul.pt/portal/page? _pageid=173,443963&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Nicole Rodriques wrote: > > This is not just to sate my appetite, but also because I want to go to > the Azores someday and would like to speak the language. I've been > trying to learn Portuguese for years, but bookstores only carry > resources to learn the Brazilian Dialect (This includes the Rosetta > Stone software I see in commercials all the time). I looked at the > catalogs for every college in Florida I could think of, those that > teach Portuguese, all teach the Brazilian dialect. I know the dialects > are different enough I should try to learn the European variety. So I > found a website online that lists teachers of all sorts of different > languages and found some that taught purely online....I found a man in > Texas, but he said that since I was more interested in the > archipelagos, they have their own dialect and I'd be better off trying > to find someone who speaks that dialect if possible! (this was news to > me). So, does anyone here teach Portuguese or know a Portuguese > teacher or at the very least the name of books that teach something > other than Brazilian? > > I'm a product of a family that strongly believed in totally > americanizing. Portuguese was only spoken to other speakers, and never > when someone who didn't understand it was around. My grandparents knew > it because their parents didn't know english so well, but the next > generation wasn't taught at all and so on. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
