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

“ Bom dia ” (good day) … “ boa tarde ” (good afternoon) … “ boa noite ” (good night) were the first Portuguese phrases I ...

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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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 ...

“There comes the machimbombo,” someone tells you in Mozambique. In Angola, you may hear the autocarro is nearly there. Machimbombo and autocarro are the same thing. In Brazil, it is known as ônibus, ...

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 ...