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.
6단계(A1~C2) 역량 프레임워크로, 읽기·쓰기·말하기·듣기 4영역의 can-do 서술을 제공하여 Level Guide 레벨 경계 설계의 핵심 근거가 된다.
CIPLE(A2)~DUPLE(C2) 5단계 공인 포르투갈어 인증으로, 유럽 포르투갈어의 CEFR 정렬 자격 체계를 제공하여 레벨 경계 근거를 뒷받침한다.
브라질 교육부 공인 포르투갈어 인증으로, 중급~최상급 4단계를 평가하며 브라질 포르투갈어 능력의 실질적 측정 기준을 제공한다.
Novice~Distinguished 5단계 숙련도 스케일로, 미국 외국어 교육계의 권위 있는 기준으로서 CEFR과 상호보완적인 레벨 설계 근거를 제공한다.
