Portuguese Links

Language Study

BBC Talk Portuguese Introduction to the language in 10 short parts, with slideshows, audio and video.
Brazil Tourism Office: Useful Portuguese Phrases Basic words and phrases for travellers.
Brazilian Portuguese Concise Grammar and essential vocabulary.
Centro Virtual Camões Language courses, cultural information and teaching resources.
De Tudo Um Pouco Comprehensive language course.
FSI Language Courses: Basic Portuguese Audio-intensive language course provided by the Foreign Service Institute of the US government.
Learning Portuguese Resources for learning European Portuguese, including sections on pronunciation, grammar and conversation. Also provides information about Portuguese-speaking countries around the world.
Online Portuguese Verb Conjugation Trainer
Scola Insta-Class: Portuguese Weekly lessons consisting of audio and video clips of authentic news broadcasts that have been transcribed and translated with accompanying exercises and vocabulary.
Short Portuguese Lessons Brief introduction to the language.
SmartPhrase.com Phrases, vocabulary lists and pronunciation guide.
Sonia-Portuguese.com Language site with sections on pronunciation, grammar, phrases and proverbs.
Wikipedia - Portuguese Encyclopedia article on the Portuguese language.

Dicionário - ABRUNA List of words that differ in European and Brazilian Portuguese, with English translations.
Dicionário Português-Brasileiro List of words that differ in European and Brazilian Portuguese.
Portuguese v. Brazilian Summary of differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese.

Corpus do Português Searchable corpus of over 45 million words in more than 50,000 Portuguese texts from the 1300s to the 1900s.
Linguateca Tools, resources and links related to Portuguese computational linguistics. Includes Portugese corpora and an online concordancer.

Biblioteca Nacional Digital Literary works in digital format, many of which are publicly available.
Crestomatia de Quarta (Feira) Freely available electronic texts. Mainly prose fiction.
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional Web site of the National Library of Brazil. Provides an extensive online catalogue, a digital library of freely available electronic texts, and a virtual tour of the library.
InterText Digital Library: Portuguese Collection of online and downloadable literary texts.
Poetry International Web: Portugal Modern Portuguese poetry with English translations.
Project Gutenberg: Portuguese Downloadable e-books in Portuguese.
WordTheque - Logos Translations Multilingual Library Searchable electronic texts available for download.

BBC News Country Profiles: Brazil Outline of Brazilian society, politics and history with essential facts & figures.
BBC News Country Profiles: Portugal Outline of Portuguese society, politics and history with essential facts & figures.