cavendish

Hi everyone

Can anyone help with information or personal experince with learning Portuguese. Does anyone know of any tuition at local colleges or private schools in the Tavira area. Any advice is welcome. I'm not very good at self taught courses but any tried and successful ones may be of interest. Thanks

kimchoppie

did you ever try "Rosetta Stone" language couse, its self taught and I am wondering if its any good? I too am useless at self taught languages...

sorry unable to actually answer your question.

good luck

TouristTrap

Rosetta Stone is great for vocabulary, but I wouldn't use it for anything other than a very basic course.

kimchoppie

Ill need all the help I can get...the good thing about living in the US is they speak English (well sort of )

maybe Ill see iif someone is selling a second hand one to help me out.

cheers
Kim

TouristTrap

If you're still living here, check out your local library system. Most libraries offer the Rosetta Stone pack online for free, just need a library card number. They come in all different languages. Unfortunately, the Rosetta Stone pack comes in Brazilian Port. but at least you'll pick up plenty of vocab and some very simple grammar.

kimchoppie

good idea...

I have found it hard to find European Portuguese versions of anything here, but I know Rosetta Stone has one, I doubt if my local library will have that one, I may be lucky if not Ill borrow the brazillian one...I need to find a few brazilians here to hang out with to get an ear for the language...

thanks again

TouristTrap

Call them and ask about their online services. If my local can and we're in FL, I'm sure yours might. There are millions of native Portuguese people living in your part of the world - shouldn't be too hard to find local restaurants/pubs, etc.

kimchoppie

you know Ive never met a native Portuguese person here yet, they must all live in San Fran, we are in Marin just north of the GGbridge...

but there is a Brazilian store not far from here, might be worth a shot.

cheers
Kim

TaviraTrog

You could try the Eastern Algarve International School of Tavira their website is www.east-pt.com.

They are advertising their lessons on the lamp posts around town at the moment.

CHOPPER

My wife has just enrolled for Portuguese lessons at the school down from Lidil in Tavira, they start in September, 2 nights a week, the contact number for Cecila the professor who does the enrolling is 933200702. Hope this helps.

Mike

Camara offer free lessons to foreigners.

derbyflan

I used this to get me going:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talk-Portugu...3628175&sr=1-3

Make sure you get the CD that goes with it. A simple introduction to the language which covers the basics to build upon.

cavendish

That sounds the sought of thing I was looking for Chopper, Thanks.
and thanks to all you others very helpful. If there's such a thing as fluent in a fortnight then I'm interested

TouristTrap

katieabi

hi i have been taking lesson in villa real for the last year and i am signing up again for level 2 next week this is run in the local uni, and funded by vrsa municipal. we had 2 lessons a week 8-9 on a wed and friday i found it usfull and i can not wait for level 2.........ummmm.... i have to learn my 2 year old is better than me........
i am unsure if there are lesson in tavira but if not the enrolment for the course here in vrsa are from the 15 july if you need any help please do not hesitate in contacting me thanks and good luck k