All our Portuguese Programmatic Course material comes directly from NTIS, notice their price is $280, and they only sell Volume I, Volume II is no longer available from NTIS. We sell Portuguese Programmatic Volume I and II, and our price is $19.95!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a picture of our Portuguese Programmatic Course Cassettes that we mastered using the Tascam Pro Audio equipment below. Double click the images to see a detailed image.

 

Learn Portuguese Language

Language Experts agree, our courses are the most complete and thorough self-instructional language course available. Repetition, vocabulary, sentence structure are the building blocks our course utilizes to teach a language. Lots of repetition drills. Dialog drills. Pronunciation drills. Vocabulary. The audio material is from native speakers and the corresponding textbook is your guide. Our Methodology, Guided Imitation, sets the student on a path to a certified level of fluency. We no longer sell our courses in Volume I and Volume II, so there's no up sell for the next level. You will receive the entire course material, on DVD, for the lowest price we can afford to produce, $19.95. Our shipping cost is $5.45 for domestic shipping and $16.45 for international shipping, which is the exact price we pay the U.S. Postal Service to ship priority mail. We do not make money off of shipping, and ship priority mail because it is the fastest and least expensive way to ship. The DVD will play in both a PC or MAC, and the audio can easily be saved to an IPOD or other MP3 device. You will need Adobe Reader to access the PDF textbook.

Our Value Proposition

The Portuguese Programmatic Course Volume I, as you can see, sells for $280 from NTIS, they no longer have Volume II available. NTIS is the United States printing service for audio/visual materials; however, they only sell it on audio cassette as you can see from our screen capture of their shopping cart. We purchased the material from NTIS, as evidenced by the screenshot provided of the original Portuguese Programmatic Course Audio Cassettes, and did the remastering work. We had the textbook professionally digitized into a PDF file. And then we spent countless hours remastering the cassette to a digital form, now we are providing this course to you for less than 7% of the cost of original material. Only $19.95!

Our Quality Proposition: It's all about the Remastering!

We used Tascam Pro Audio equipment to do the initial digital remastering from cassette to compact disc. Once completed, we converted the compact discs into an uncompressed WAV file. We copied what would have been on Side B of the Cassettes, to the end of Side A, creating one continous file, saving again as a WAV file. We used audio software, like Nero and Audacity, to clean up the audio even more. This multi step process includes converting the mono file to stereo, normalizing the volume across the entire WAV file, removing "clicks and pops", doing a low frequency filter, then a high frequency filter, truncating silences to 3 seconds to ensure the audio is quick to begin and end without dead space, normalized the volume again, and outputting the file as another WAV file. We used an MP3 encoder to convert the WAV file to an MP3 file, and we tagged all files with Subject, Title, Copyright, Volume I, Volume II data.

What does all this mean?

The remastering process and filter work means that silence sounds like silence. And in this case, silence truly is golden. Our product is of unparalleled quality, and we can honestly make the claim that no one has spent more time making these courses sound as good as our courses sound. We have provided significant improvements to the sound quality versus the original masters, and even the material we were selling just a year ago, thanks to current technology. All you have to do is open our files in a sound editor and see that silence is a straight line, not wavy, and this means clarity.

About The FSI Portuguese Language Course

FSI Portuguese Language Course contains 32 hours of audio, and two textbooks in PDF file format with 1,439 pages.

Portuguese Drills are recorded first for listening, then for familiarization through repetition, and finally for participation. During the participation step, when the student performs the required manipulation, his utterances are confirmed on the audio immediately following the space provided for his participation.

Portuguese Drills are generally in two groups in any unit: a) variation drills on pattern sentences, which provide opportunities for the student to develop flexibility in the use of patterns already memorized, and b) grammar drills, which are intended to provide practice for the student in the operation of the patterns explained in the immediately preceding grammar notes.

Learn Portuguese 1 - Programming, Pronunciation

Learn Portuguese 2 - Greetings

Learn Portuguese 3 - Pronunciation of masculine nouns

Learn Portuguese 4 - Pronunciation; showing possession

Learn Portuguese 5 - Programming with infinitive

Learn Portuguese 6 - Pronunciation: Title of respect

Learn Portuguese 7 - Definite article and indefinite article

Learn Portuguese 8 - Diphtong review, A look at Grammar and comprehension

Learn Portuguese 9 - Clasification of Nouns: Gender

Learn Portuguese 10 - Contractions na and no

Learn Portuguese 11 - Pluralizing, Some numbers, gender agreement

Learn Portuguese 12 - Cognates, Verbs of -ar, Negative questions

Learn Portuguese 13 - Nasal Vowels, Comprehension, translations

Learn Portuguese 14 - Past tense -ar verbs, A look at the grammar, comprehension

Learn Portuguese 15 - -aram ending, amos ending, present and past, Dialog

Learn Portuguese 16 - -er verbs in past, Reflexives, Telling time

Learn Portuguese 17 - Cognates, Structure, Adverbial Time Expressions

Learn Portuguese 18 - Possessives, Days of the Week, Months of the year

Learn Portuguese 19 - Present tense -ir verb

Learn Portuguese 20 - Common Greetings

Learn Portuguese 21 - Nouns and adjectives

Learn Portuguese 22 - -ia endings, Common First names/p>

Learn Portuguese 23 - Past description, First Names, Family Names

Learn Portuguese 24 - More Family names, Exchanges

Learn Portuguese 25 - Review

Learn Portuguese 26 - Arrival at the airport, immigration

Learn Portuguese 27 - Numbers 1 - 100

Learn Portuguese 28 - At the Hotel

Learn Portuguese 29 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 30 - More at the hotel

Learn Portuguese 31 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 32 - Breakfast at the Hotel

Learn Portuguese 33 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 34 - No taxi

Learn Portuguese 35 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 36 - Courtesy and and leave taking

Learn Portuguese 37 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 38 - Asking for Directions

Learn Portuguese 39 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 40 - Restaurant

Learn Portuguese 41 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 42 - Telephone

Learn Portuguese 43 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 44 - Tempo

Learn Portuguese 45 - Programming

Learn Portuguese 46 - Airport

Learn Portuguese 47 - to do, and too much

Learn Portuguese 48 - Terror in the Mediterranean skies

About the Portuguese Language

Portuguese is a Romance language developed from Galician-Portuguese that was spoken in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. It is an official language of the European Union, the Organisation of American States, the African Union, and Lusophone countries. With around 272.9 million speakers, Portuguese is the fifth-most spoken language in the world and the most spoken in the southern hemisphere.

During the Age of Exploration, Portuguese sailors carried their language to far off places. The exploration followed the attempts to colonise new lands by Portugal and as a result Portuguese became a widely dispersed language in the world. Brazil and Portugal are two primary Portuguese speaking nations. It's also widely used as a lingua franca in former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guiné-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe. Portuguese speakers are also found in Macau, East Timor and Goa.