Overview
Duration
12 weeks
Group Size
4-10 students
Tuition
Under $14/hour
Level
Beginner
Class Time
2.5 hours/week
Location
ILC, Carmel
Prerequisites
None
What You’ll Learn
Introduce themselves and exchange basic personal information in everyday situations.
Understand and use essential verbs (ser, estar, ter, gostar, querer) in simple present.
Ask and answer common questions about origin, routine, family, food, and daily needs.
Order food, shop, ask for prices, and navigate basic public interactions politely.
Describe people, places, routines, and immediate surroundings with simple vocabulary.
Use foundational pronunciation skills, including nasal vowels and common sound patterns.
Participate in short, practical conversations using learned phrases and familiar vocabulary.
Details
Dates:
Jan 6, 2026 - Feb 12, 2026
Time:
Tuesdays, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Cost:
$430.00
(Does not include text books and optional tuition insurance)
Itinerary
Each week includes speaking practice, games, cultural context, and real-world role-plays. You’ll use everything you learn — right away.
Brazilian Portuguese Beginner 1 — Weekly Focus & Goals
Week 1: Greetings & introductions — formal/informal greetings, polite expressions, stating your name.
Week 2: Alphabet & pronunciation — Brazilian sounds, nasal vowels, spelling names, basic phonetics.
Week 3: Personal information — saying where you’re from, nationalities, professions, “ser/estar” basics.
Week 4: Numbers & daily survival phrases — phone numbers, prices, asking for clarification.
Week 5: Talking about family — family vocabulary, possession (meu/minha/seu/sua), simple present with ter.
Week 6: Daily routines — regular verbs (-ar, -er, -ir), time expressions, describing your routine.
Week 7: Around the city — places, directions, transportation, useful phrases for getting around.
Week 8: Food & cafés — ordering, preferences (gostar de), menus, common foods & drinks.
Week 9: Shopping & clothing — colors, sizes, prices, polite requests, querer for asking/answering.
Week 10: At home — describing rooms, furniture, locations with estar, basic prepositions.
Week 11: Health & feelings — symptoms, simple advice, expressing needs with precisar, emotions.
Week 12: Review & conversations — integrated role-plays, everyday dialogues, and short oral presentations.
Meet Your Instructor
Carolina Wuestefeld
Instructor: Spanish & Portuguese
Meet Carolina!
Carolina is a Brazilian-born nurse who moonlights as a Spanish and Portuguese instructor—bringing the same compassion, sharp attention to detail, and quick-learning spirit she’s known for in healthcare. Animated, musical, and wonderfully high-energy, Carolina teaches with movement, visuals, and plenty of laughter. As a certified Zumba instructor, she infuses her classes with rhythm, culture, and real-world expression, helping students feel confident, connected, and joyfully engaged from day one.