Comprehensive Portuguese communication skills across reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Covers everything from daily greetings to academic discussion and professional communication.
Portuguese is an official language in nine countries including Brazil, Portugal, Angola, and Mozambique, with approximately 260 million speakers worldwide. It spans from basic greetings and self-introductions to everyday conversation, workplace communication, academic discussion, and literary expression. Beyond grammar and vocabulary knowledge, it requires understanding the differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese and selecting context-appropriate expressions.
You can read and write the 26 letters of the Portuguese alphabet along with major accent marks (e.g., acute accent, tilde, cedilla). You recognize numbers and basic words. You can use everyday greetings like "Ola" and "Obrigado/Obrigada," and introduce yourself with your name and nationality. You can catch some words when someone speaks very slowly and clearly. (CEFR Pre-A1 to A1 level)
What Comes Next
If you've achieved most items in this checklist, you're ready to enter the CEFR A1~A2 / CAPLE CIPLE stage, where you'll start forming basic sentences and handling everyday survival situations. As the CEFR Companion Volume suggests, this transition begins with repeatedly using basic vocabulary and sentence structures in familiar daily contexts. According to Krashen(1982)'s input hypothesis, consistent exposure to Portuguese audio and text slightly above your current level accelerates this transition.
A 6-level (A1-C2) competency framework providing can-do descriptors across 4 skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening), serving as the core basis for Level Guide boundary design.
A 5-tier official Portuguese certification from CIPLE (A2) to DUPLE (C2), providing a European Portuguese qualification framework aligned with CEFR that supports level boundary evidence.
Official Portuguese proficiency certification administered by INEP (Brazilian Ministry of Education), assessing 4 levels from intermediate to superior, providing government-backed measurement standards for Brazilian Portuguese competency
A 5-level proficiency scale (Novice to Distinguished) that serves as an authoritative benchmark in U.S. foreign language education, providing a complementary basis to CEFR for level design.
제2언어 습득의 입력 가설로, 포르투갈어 학습에서 이해 가능한 입력(i+1)의 점진적 확장이 CEFR 및 Celpe-Bras 단계별 전환의 이론적 근거
