Portuguese

Portuguese is spoken in 11 countries on four continents with close to 250 million speakers. Portuguese serves as a working language for critical international organizations including the African Union and the European Union. UW-Madison has one of the largest Portuguese programs in the United States, and it is estimated that over 1.3 million Portuguese speakers live in the United States. Portuguese shares some grammar rules, sentence structure, and similar vocabulary words with other Romance languages; so, if you already speak French, Spanish or Italian, Portuguese is an easy and fun language to learn. To study Portuguese is an asset in today’s global economy, as Brazil’s economy is among the largest in the world.

Bem-vindo! = "Welcome!"

Department:
Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Advisor:
Karen Francis, karen.francis@wisc.edu
https://spanport.wisc.edu/undergrad-advising/

Intro Classes:
PORTUG 101: First Semester Portuguese or PORTUG 301: Intensive Portuguese for Spanish Speakers

Study Portuguese in the summer at the Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute (SIPI)

Affordable non-credit language classes offered on campus in the evenings, on the weekends and in the summer. Learn more.