Brazilian Portuguese
| Estudar | línguas | você | o | faz | em | Leiden |
| study | languages | you | it | do | in | Leiden |
| 'Leiden is where you study languages.' | ||||||
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*The wording of this phrase is typical for Brazilian Portuguese. This is the variant of Portuguese that is taught in Leiden, since the courses are offered by the department of Latin American Studies. |
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| Language name: | Portuguese | Português | |
| Language family: | Indo-European, Romance, Italo-West, Ibero-Romance, Northwest. | ||
| Region: | Brazil. | ||
| Department: | Latin American Studies. | ||
| URL Department: | http://www.tcla.leidenuniv.nl | ||
| Lecturers: | M. van der Meer, R.J.M. Ploegmakers | ||
| Course description: | In the language acquisition courses reading, writing, listening and speaking exercises are integrated. The necessary grammatical knowledge is acquired with the aid of Hologram (on a PC, self-study). The oral course is also a self-study course, this time in the language laboratory (Abreu I and II). On top of this, students attend one-hour conversation classes twice a week. The writing course consists of two tutorials a week and some assignments. |
| Total duration: | 2 semesters. |
| Course frequency: | The courses are taught every year. |
| Speaking/Reading/Writing | Year 3 | ||
| Credit (in ECTS): | 16 | ||
| Course hours per week: | 6 | ||
| Highest course level: | B1 | ||
| Class types: | Tutorials and self-study. |
| Examination types: | Assignments, grammar test, written and oral exams. |
