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- Português
- Português para Estrangeiros
- Português - Compreensão oral
- Português - Expressão Oral
- Português - Redução de sotaque
- Preparação para CELPE-Bras
Learn Brazilian Portuguese in a Quarter of the Time with a Direct Method. Four Times Faster. No homework!
- Português
- Português para Estrangeiros
- Português - Compreensão oral
- Português - Expressão Oral
- Português - Redução de sotaque
- Preparação para CELPE-Bras
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Welcome to the unique opportunity to learn Brazilian Portuguese with an experienced native speaker and certified by the CMO in Cambridge in the use of the Direct Method of mastering a foreign language.
Learning Portuguese with the Direct Method is fast and effective!
The Direct Method is a teaching method created specifically to improve your Portuguese
in an intensive atmosphere. The teacher is constantly asking questions, so you are
hearing and using the language as much as possible. When you speak in the lesson,
the teacher corrects your grammar and pronunciation mistakes, and you learn a lot
from this correction.
The Method teaches Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary and grammar in a carefully
programmed way, with systematic revision and reinforcement. In the lesson, there is
a lot of speaking and listening practice, but there is also reading and writing so that
you revise and consolidate what you have learned.
With the Direct Method, the teacher speaks quickly so that you learn to understand
Brazilian Portuguese when it is spoken at natural speed. This also means that everyone is
concentrating hard all the time.
Brazilian Portuguese in a quarter of the time
The Direct Method can teach Portuguese in a quarter of the time taken by any other
method on the market. Instead of the usual 350 hours necessary to get the average student to the level of B1 of the Common European Framework of References for Languages the Method can take as little as 80 hours, and only 160 hours for B2 level.
The method is suitable for students of all nationalities, and ages. It requires no
equipment (not even a whiteboard) or other books, and can be used for one to one tuition, classes at private schools, state schools and universities.
The Direct Method in practice
A Direct Method Brazilian Portuguese lesson is probably very different from lessons you have done in the past. You do not sit in silence, doing a reading comprehension test or a
grammar exercise from a book. You do not have ‘free conversation’, where you only
use the Portuguese you already feel comfortable with. Of course, activities like this can
help you, but you can do them at home with a book, or in a coffee bar. In a Direct
Method lesson, you are busy with important activities that you cannot do outside
the classroom. You are listening to Portuguese all the time. You are speaking Portuguese a
lot, and all your mistakes are corrected. You learn quickly because you are always
surrounded by Portuguese. There is no silence and no time to get bored or lose your
concentration. And it is also fun!
So, what exactly happens in a Direct Method lesson, and how does it work?
The teacher asks you questions
The Direct Method books are full of questions. Each question practises a word, an
expression, or a piece of grammar. The teacher is standing, and asks the questions
to the students one by one. You never know when the teacher will ask you, so you
are always concentrating. When one student finishes answering one question, the
teacher immediately starts to ask the next question.
The teacher speaks quickly
The teacher in a Direct Method lesson speaks quickly. This is because, in the real
world, it is natural to speak quickly. If you want to understand normal Brazilian Portuguese, you
must practise listening to quick natural speech and become able to understand
Brazilian Portuguese without first translating into your language. This idea of not translating is at
the centre of the Direct Method; this method helps you to start thinking in Brazilian Portuguese.
Also, we do not want you to stop and think a lot about the grammar while you are
speaking. We want you to speak as a reflex, instinctively. And do not worry about
mistakes. You will, naturally, make a lot of mistakes in the lessons, but Direct Method
teachers correct your mistakes, and you learn from the corrections. When you go
home, of course it will help if you read your book, think about the grammar, study
the vocabulary, and do all the things that language students do at home – but the
lessons are times to practise your listening and speaking, with your books closed!
The teacher says every question twice, and helps you with the answer
In the lesson, the teacher speaks quickly, so we say the questions twice. This way,
you have another chance to listen if you did not understand everything the first time.
The teacher then immediately says the beginning of the answer. This is to help you
(and ‘push’ you) to start speaking immediately. So, for example:
Teacher: «Há duas cadeiras nesta sala? Há duas cadeiras nesta sala? Não, não há...»
Student (immediately): «Não, não há duas cadeiras nesta sala, mas há doze cadeiras nessa sala».
If the teacher does not ‘push’ you by giving you the beginning of the answer, you
might start to think too much, and translate into your language.
The teacher will speak along with you all the time while you are saying your answer.
So, if you forget a word or you are not sure what to say, you will always hear the next
word or two from the teacher. You should repeat after the teacher, but immediately
try again to continue with the answer yourself. You must always try to continue
speaking, and only copy the teacher when you cannot continue alone. That way, you
will become more confident and learn more quickly. Never simply wait for help from
the teacher and then copy – you will not improve so quickly.
Long answers, with the same grammar as the question
We want you to practise your speaking as much as possible, so you always make
complete sentences when you speak in the lesson, using the same grammatical
structure as in the question. For example:
Teacher: «Aproximandamente há quantas páginas neste livro?»
Student «Há aproximandamente trezentas páginas nesse livro».
In this way, you are not just answering a question; you are making full sentences with
the vocabulary and the grammar that you need to learn.
Correction by imitation
With the Direct Method, the teacher corrects all your mistakes the moment you make
them. The teacher corrects you by imitating (copying) your mistake and then saying
the correct pronunciation/form of the word. For example, if you say “Ele VIM dos Estados Unidos”, the teacher quickly says “não VIM - VEM”. This correction by imitation
helps you to hear the difference between your mistake and the proper Brazilian Portuguese form.
You should immediately repeat the correct word and continue with your sentence.
You learn a lot from this correction of your mistakes, and constant correction results
in fast progress.
Short forms
In the lesson, the teacher uses short forms (e.g. the teacher says “Não to” instead of
“Eu não estou”). This is because it is natural to use contractions in spoken Brazilian Portuguese and you
must learn to understand them. Also, if you want to sound natural when you speak,
you must learn to use short forms when speaking.
Lesson structure
A typical 50-minute Direct Method lesson will contain about 35
minutes of speaking, a 10-minute period for reading, and a 5-minute dictation. The
reading practice and the dictation are often in the middle of the lesson.
In the reading part, you read and speak while the teacher helps you and corrects
your mistakes. In the dictation, you practise your writing, but you are also listening
to the teacher. So, a 50-minute Direct Method lesson is 50 minutes of spoken Brazilian Portuguese with
no silence!
No chatting
Although the Direct Method emphasises the importance of speaking practice, this
does not mean chatting (free conversation). You learn Brazilian Portuguese quickly with the Callan
Method partly because the lessons are organised, efficient, fast and busy. There is no
time wasted on chatting; this can be done before or after the lesson.
Chatting is not a good way to spend your time in a Brazilian Portuguese lesson. First, only some of
the students speak. Second, in a chat, people only use the Brazilian Portuguese that they already
know. Third, it is difficult for a teacher to correct mistakes during a conversation.
The Direct Method has none of these problems. All through the lesson, every student
is listening and speaking, practising different vocabulary and structures, and learning
from the correction of their mistakes. And nobody has time to get bored!
Repeat, repeat, repeat!
Systematic revision
In your native language, you sometimes read or hear a word that you do not already
know. You usually need to read or hear this new word only once or twice in order
to remember it and then use it yourself. However, when you are learning a foreign
language, things are very different. You need to hear, see and use words and
grammatical structures many times before you really know them properly. So your
studies must involve a system of revision (repeating what you have studied before).
This is absolutely essential. If there is no system of revision in your studies, you will
forget what you have studied and will not be able to speak or understand better than
before.
In every Direct Method lesson, of course you learn new Brazilian Portuguese, practise it, and
progress through your book. However, you also do a lot of revision so that you can
really learn what you have studied. Your teacher can decide how much revision your
class needs, but it will always be an important part of your studies.
Also, because there is a lot of revision, it is not important for you to understand
everything the first time; it gets easier. The revision with Callan is automatic and
systematic. Every day you do a lot of revision and then learn some new Brazilian Portuguese
Revision in reading and dictation too
The reading and dictation practice in the lessons is part of Direct Method’s systematic revision
as well. First, you learn a new word in the speaking part of the lesson; a few lessons
later, you meet it again when you are reading; finally, the word appears in a dictation.
This is all written into the Direct Method; it happens automatically.
Correcting your dictations
With the Direct Method, there is little or no homework to do, but it is very important
that you correct your dictations. These are printed in your book and so you can easily
correct them at home, on the bus, or wherever. It is important to do this because it
helps you to learn the written forms of the words you have already studied in earlier
lessons.
Your first lessons with the Direct Method
During your first lesson with the Direct Method, all of the questions and some of the
vocabulary are new for you; you have not done any revision yet. For this reason, the
teacher may not ask you many questions. You can sit and listen, and become more
familiar with the method - the speed, the questions, the correction etc.
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C1
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This is your unique opportunity to learn Brazilian Portuguese with an experienced native speaker and certified by the CMO in Cambridge in the use of the Direct Method of mastering a foreign language.
The tuition - it is carefully designed and programmed for all types of students: from slow to fast learners. You learn some new Portuguese every lesson, but most important you revise the language you learned earlier.
75% more speaking - in class, you are doing listening and speaking practice about 75% of the time, but there is also a little reading and writing to revise what you have learned and learn how to write what you are already able to speak confidently, as well.
Understanding Fast Portuguese - learn to understand Portuguese when people speak quickly. In the real world, it is natural not to speak slowly. If you want to understand normal Portuguese, you must practise listening to quick, natural speech and become able to understand the language without first translating into your language. This idea of not translating is at the centre of my tuition; it helps you to start thinking in Portuguese.
Corrections - I will help you when you are speaking, and will correct all your mistakes the moment you make them. You learn a lot from these corrections, and constant correction results in fast progress.
Speaking not Chatting - tuition involves a lot of speaking practice, this does not mean chatting (free conversation) though. When you chat, you only use the words and grammar that you already know, so you do not learn much. By speaking with the help of your teacher, whilst he is guiding your sentences you are constantly using new words and structures when you speak, so you benefit more. No time is wasted.
Last but not the least: NO HOMEWORK!
"The secret of sucess in learning a foreign language is revise, revise and revise and speak without thinking"
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