Portuguese Level 3 (Brazil)

Level 3 Examples

What You'll Learn

• Engage in advanced-level conversations.
• Learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life
• Move toward fluency in Portuguese

Sample topics include:

• Emotions and life milestones
• Opinion and judgments
• Currency exchange and transactions
• Political, media, business, and religious terms

About Portuguese

Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. There are more than 200 million Portuguese speakers in the world; 180 million are in South America.

Portuguese Learning Tips

• Don’t be surprised if you see sentences without subjects in Portuguese. Rosetta Stone teaches you to identify who is speaking or who is being spoken about through the form of the verb.
• There are two categories of Portuguese nouns: masculine and feminine.
• Instead of answering a question with ‘yes,’ Portuguese speakers often answer with a verb. For example:
          Ela tem um livro?
          Tem.
• The pronunciation of certain letters depends on their location in a word. Rosetta Stone will help you learn proper pronunciation through guided exposure and practice.
• Portuguese has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and his or her relationship to the person being addressed.
• Portuguese has two verbs that mean ‘to be.’ One is used for characteristics that are more permanent, and one for characteristics that are more temporary.

Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations

• Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
• 512 MB RAM
• 1 GHz or faster processor speed
• 600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
• 16-bit sound card
• 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation
• Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
• 16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)

Additional Requirements for Online Products

• High-speed internet connection
• Browsers: Internet Explorer 6sp1, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0, Safari 2 and Safari 3
• Flash 9 plug-in installed on browser

Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:

Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.