The beautiful Romance language of Portuguese is spoken by some 220 million people worldwide
(the sixth most spoken language) and is the official
language of 8 independent countries on four continents. It belongs to a group of languages called
"Romance" or "Neo-Latin" that evolved from Latin, the language of Latium in Ancient Italy, or more specifically,
the city of Rome.
Go Lisbon has put together a number of useful resources below to
help you learn Portuguese. We offer both online learning tools and,
together with Cactus Languages, the chance to study Portuguese in
Portugal itself, either in the capital Lisbon, or close to the
beaches of the Algarve in Portimão and Faro. For those wishing to
learn Brazilian Portuguese, we can recommend schools in Rio de
Janeiro, Salvador de Bahia or Maceio. Or perhaps our English
visitors wish to stay closer to home, in which case they should look
no further than the Portuguese language schools in the UK.
PORTUGAL
Learn Portuguese in Lisbon - 6 different courses in Portugal's capital
Learn Portuguese in Faro - in the heart of the Algarve capital
Learn Portuguese in Portimão - close to the wonderful beaches of
south Portugal
BRAZIL
Together with Cactus Languages, it is possible to take Portuguese
language courses in
Rio de Janeiro,
Salvador de Bahia or
Maceio
UNITED KINGDOM
Please click
here for detailed information about Portuguese language schools
in London.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Before you start taking one of the
excellent language courses above, you may wish to do a little online
learning first, and there is no better place to start than Go
Lisbon's
introduction to the Portuguese language.
Those of our readers
planning on visiting Lisbon will want to brush up on their
vocabulary, and our
Portuguese Food
Dictionary is an excellent resource for learning food and menu
terms likely to be seen in local restaurants.
For a general
translation resource, there is no better option than our
Portuguese-English
dictionary which includes a database of more than 20,000
Portuguese words and phrases translated to English.
Finally, we offer the chance to purcahse several
Portuguese learning tools for PC or MAC.
