An intensive course in Brazilian Portuguese for advanced students of Spanish. This course is based on positive transfer of applicable linguistic structures of Spanish, avoidance of negative transfer, and concentration on structures unique to Portuguese. Understanding, reading, and writing skills are practiced. This course does not count toward the foreign language requirement for the BA degree, or the BS degree in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Class meets both in the classroom and in the language laboratory.
The non-native speaker can profit most from this class. These landmark reference works are particularly useful for those without a previous knowledge of or a special interest in linguistics. The approach is based on tentative formal rules for making simple sentences and rules for transforming simple sentences and combining sentences to make more complex structures. Students will be given short assignments, will frequently work at the chalkboard, and will make an analysis of 100 consecutive sentences from published, written Spanish chosen in consultation with the instructor.