Lakeview Elementary to offer Portuguese language immersion
Dual Language Immersion will be available at Lakeview Elementary School starting in fall 2012
Latest news about Portuguese language
Artist shares unique view of Portuguese history with students
Jacinto Lucas Pires wants to give Americans a new image of Portugal. That was just part of the reason behind the award-winning Portuguese author, playwright, film director and musician’s visit to a classroom at B.M.C. Durfee High School Wednesday.
Pinterest plans local-language launches
Pinterest is planning to roll out internationally. That could help it receive ahead of copycat sites and gain users worldwide. To start, the company is seeking translators in French, German, Japanese, Portuguese ...
San Leandro library helps preserve historical newspapers
Fraternal society teams up with university to digitize Portuguese-language publications dating to 1885
San Leandro Portuguese library provides newspapers for digitalization project
SAN LEANDRO -- The J.A. Freitas Library will host an overview Saturday night of a project to digitalize copies of 14 Portuguese-language newspapers published in California between 1885 and 1940.
Madera High grad to study Portuguese in Mozambique
Author(s): Farin Montanez A 2003 Madera High School graduate will study Portuguese and mathematics in Mozambique, a tiny country in southeast Africa, next school year thanks to a National Security Education Program. Gabriel Gardiner, 26, was one of 161 undergraduate students nationwide who were awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship to study foreign languages abroad. More than 1,000 students ...
Portuguese and Spanish-Language Stagings of The Lion King and Mary Poppins On the Horizon
Disney's Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King will heat things up with a new Portuguese-language production premiering in Brazil next year. A Spanish-language production of Mary Poppins will also fly into Mexico City this fall.
Student demand drives university to bring back Portuguese courses this fall
OU will offer Portuguese courses again after a two-semester hiatus. Students can take the first course in the fall, followed by the second in the spring and the third the next fall.
What languages does your high school teach?
Throughout MetroWest, students in middle and high school can pick from a variety of foreign languages. While most MetroWest schools offer French, Spanish and Latin, students can also pick Mandarin, Italian, Portuguese or German. However, foreign language departments tend to narrow down the language options to four, basing the decision on available staff, the needs of the community, the ...
Cooking up a deal across the Timor Sea
On the wall of the single classroom at the abandoned village of Batugade, East Timor, where I spent a night in September 1975, there hung a map of the Portuguese empire - or rather a set of boxed maps on a single scroll, to avoid it appearing just as widely dispersed specks on the globe.