Foreign Service Institute Portuguese Programmatic Course Volume II

Portuguese is one of the world's major languages, with approximately 230 million speakers. In addition to Brazil and Portugal, it is also a major lingua franca in Portugal's former colonial possessions in Africa. Portuguese is a descendant of Latin, as are Italian, French, Spanish and Romanian.

--About the FSI method--

The Foreign Service Institute courses have been designed to assist United States government representatives in mastering the spoken language. They are self-contained and suitable for independent study. Each program provides dialogs, instruction in pronunciation and grammar, extensive recorded exercises, and texts for developing reading proficiency. The accompanying audio is available for download from the publisher's website: OmiliaLanguages.com