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Conversa Brasileira A compilation of video clips where Brazilians talk about a variety of topics using unscripted and natural language.

=New Book Publication: Portuguese: A Reference Manual = By Sheila R. Ackerlind & Rebecca Jones-Kellogg

An essential, comprehensive guide for all who are interested in learning the Portuguese language and mastering its complexities, Portuguese: A Reference Manual supplements the phonetic and grammatical explanations offered in basic textbooks. While the Manual focuses on Brazilian Portuguese, it incorporates European Portuguese variants and thus provides a more complete description of the language. Accessible to non-linguists and novice language learners, as well as informative for instructors of Portuguese and specialists in other languages, this guide incorporates the Orthographic Accord (in effect since 2009–2010), which attempts to standardize Portuguese orthography. The Manual reflects the language as it is currently taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels by providing detailed explanations of the sound and writing systems and the grammar of the principal Portuguese dialects. A reference guide rather than a textbook, the Manual also provides extensive verb charts, as well as comparisons of Portuguese with English and Spanish.

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[|Portuguese Language Journal] The Portuguese Language Journal (PLJ) is an initiative to promote and improve the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language. PLJ also aims to provide a venue to encourage collaboration, research, and exchange of ideas among Portuguese language faculty.

[|Network of Business Language Educators(NOBLE)] The **Network of Business Language Educators (NOBLE)** is a community which brings together professionals across disciplines to collaborate and exchange ideas to build programs and curriculum that will prepare our students to be global citizens in the 21st century workplace.