Brown University Professor Emeritus Onésimo Almeida receives prestigious award for his contributions to advancing Portuguese ...

NEW BEDFORD – In the upcoming school year, more students in New Bedford Public Schools will have the opportunity to begin studying Portuguese as the language will now be taught at the elementary and ...

DARTMOUTH – About 45 Portuguese language teachers from 21 Massachusetts and Rhode Island school districts came together at Dartmouth High School on March 22 to share their classroom experiences, ...

DARTMOUTH – Local Portuguese language teachers say this can be both a very exciting and challenging time as they’re making changes to their instructional practices to pave the way for a full ...

LISBON – Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said on Monday that Portugal maintains the goal of having Portuguese as an official language of the United Nations (UN), but that ...

Portuguese is the fifth most spoken language in the world and the first in the southern hemisphere, with more than 290 million speakers. A customer passes by under a Portuguese flag at the Saldanha ...

On a Sunday morning in South Bethlehem, friends greet each other on the steps of a Catholic church. They talk before Mass in a foreign language. “Bom dia,” the friends say, meaning good morning.”Frio, ...

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. This May 5 in Maputo, Mozambique, the Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture, of the Community of Portuguese Speaking ...

The date of 5 May was officially established in 2009 by the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) - an intergovernmental organization that has been in official partnership with UNESCO ...