Portuguese for Business and Daily Communication

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About Course

Portuguese opens doors across Portugal, Brazil and other fast-moving markets, but learners often struggle to turn textbook vocabulary into confident real-world conversation. This practical, beginner-friendly course teaches useful Portuguese for everyday and professional situations through essential pronunciation, introductions, numbers, dates, time, money, transport, food, shopping, accommodation, workplace requests, meetings, messages and customer conversations. By the end, you will be able to manage everyday situations, introduce yourself and your organisation, participate in simple workplace exchanges and communicate respectfully with customers and partners across Portuguese-speaking markets.

What Will You Learn?

  • Pronounce essential Portuguese sounds and expressions.
  • Use Portuguese greetings and professional introductions.
  • Exchange contact, number, date, time and money information.
  • Manage common daily-life situations in Portuguese.
  • Make workplace requests and clarify instructions.
  • Participate in simple professional meetings.
  • Write short Portuguese messages and emails.
  • Speak with customers and business partners.
  • Discuss basic price, availability and delivery information.
  • Use appropriate professional titles and levels of formality.
  • Adapt across Portuguese-speaking business cultures respectfully.
  • Complete realistic Portuguese communication simulations.

Course Content

Section 1: Start Speaking Portuguese
Build an immediately useful foundation in Portuguese. Practise key sounds, stress and rhythm, greetings, polite expressions, basic sentence patterns and strategies for keeping a conversation moving.

  • Pronounce essential Portuguese sounds
  • Use stress and rhythm more naturally
  • Build simple statements and questions
  • Use formal and friendly greetings
  • Use polite expressions and courtesy words
  • Ask for repetition and clarification

Section 2: Introduce Yourself and Your Organisation
Share personal and professional information confidently, introduce your organisation and colleagues, explain the business, exchange contact details and answer common introductory questions.

Section 3: Use Numbers, Dates, Time and Money
Handle numbers, phone details, prices, quantities, dates, schedules, appointments, deadlines, addresses and payment language accurately.

Section 4: Manage Everyday Situations
Use Portuguese for directions, transport, food, shopping, accommodation, healthcare assistance and simple public or service conversations.

Section 5: Communicate in the Workplace
Make polite requests, offer help, ask questions, give simple instructions, discuss schedules, confirm responsibilities and report progress.

Section 6: Take Part in Meetings
Welcome participants, state the meeting purpose, ask for clarification, express opinions, agree or disagree politely, make suggestions and confirm next steps.

Section 7: Write Messages and Emails
Write practical messages and emails, request information, confirm appointments, send documents, explain delays and follow up professionally.

Section 8: Speak with Customers and Business Partners
Welcome contacts, identify needs, describe products and services, discuss price, availability, delivery and payment, answer enquiries and promise follow-up.

Section 9: Understand Portuguese-Speaking Business Cultures
Adapt communication across Portugal, Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking markets, considering titles, relationships, formality, time and conversational style.

Section 10: Practise Complete Portuguese Conversations
Combine the course language in realistic daily-life, professional, workplace, meeting, customer and written simulations, then create a personal learning plan.

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