Brazilian Portuguese · C1
Brazilian Portuguese C1: Advanced
Up to 6,500 words: nuance, register and long texts; you sound natural in work and study.
10
units
6,500
words by the end
14
grammar topics
10
graded texts
Units
- C1.1Talking like a native: discourse markersFalar como nativo: marcadoresCan manage informal conversation with natural markers (né, tipo, aí, pois é) and follow fast colloquial speech.
- C1.2Dar, ficar, deixar, pegar: idioms & banterExpressões idiomáticas e zoeiraCan use and understand idiomatic light-verb expressions, banter and current slang appropriately.
- C1.3Variation: regions & relativesVariação: regiões e relativasCan understand major regional varieties and spoken relative-clause strategies, and rephrase them for writing.
- C1.4Seja como for: frozen & legal subjunctivesFórmulas fixas e subjuntivo jurídicoCan understand legal and administrative texts and use fixed subjunctive formulae to take a position.
- C1.5Agreement & the many 'se'sConcordância e os vários 'se'Can write with norm-compliant agreement, disambiguate se in complex texts and defuse a conflict politely.
- C1.6Formal regência & punctuationRegência formal e pontuaçãoCan edit formal texts for regência and punctuation and hedge claims appropriately.
- C1.7Academic PortuguesePortuguês acadêmicoCan write an academic abstract or report with nominalization, impersonal frames and hedging.
- C1.8Formal & literary verb formsFormas verbais formais e literáriasCan read formal and literary texts containing mesoclisis and the simple pluperfect.
- C1.9Compressed formal syntaxSintaxe formal condensadaCan read and write journalistic prose with participial and gerund clauses (Encerrada a votação, …).
- C1.10Emphasis & inversion (Celpe-Bras Avançado)Ênfase e inversãoCan produce emphatic, well-structured formal texts using inversion and correlatives.