Language Laboratory practice at advanced intermediate level to develop comprehension of real-life audio and video texts in different varieties of Portuguese of the Portuguese-speaking nations. Transcription of audio and video texts of different registers. Oral and written summary of audio/video texts. Advanced production and self-evaluation exercises for refinement of pronunciation fluency and accuracy.

It is expected that at the end of this course students are able to: 1. Have a coherent conversation in Portuguese 2. Differentiate specific phonemes of Portuguese, that represent a major effort/difficulty for them 3. Interact with Portuguese native speakers (from different variants of Portuguese) 4. Be eloquent and expressive (accurately using the specific prosody aspects of Portuguese)