Portuguese Language Resources
LANGUAGE RESOURCES
DICTIONARIES
TRANSLATORS
GRAMMARS
TEACHING RESOURCES
OTHER LANGUAGE RESOURCES
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Harvard
University Lamont Library's: "Great Links on the Web: Languages
Dictionaries
Dictionário
Universal Língua Portuguesa
Dictionary
of the Portuguese language.
Dicionário
da Língua Portuguesa da Porto Editora
Dictionary
of the Portuguese language, with Portuguese/Portuguese; Portugese/English;
English/Portuguese; Portuguese/French; and French/Portuguese.
(Note: There is a charge for access.)
Orthographical
Dictionary
On-line edition of the Vocabulário Ortográfico
da Língua Portuguesa (Portuguese Language Orthographic
Vocabulary) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy
of Letters)
Caboverdian
Dictionary
Portuguese
version of the Dictionnaire Étymologique Créole
de Santiago, of Nicolas Quint-Abrial.
Michaelis:
Moderno Dictionário de la Língua Portuguesa
Dictionary
of Modern Portuguese. (charge for access)
Dictionary
of Brazilian Folklore
Small dictionary written for foreign students.
Dictionaries Online
A directory of reference works (dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias, atlases, etc.) available in Portuguese on the Intenet: .
Dictionary
of Portuguese slang
Created
by the Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
Dictionary
of Anglicisms
A
small dictionary made by the Instituto Superior Politécnico
de Viseu (Portugal).
Dicionário
Cravo Albin de música popular brasileira (Brazil)
A comprehensive online dictionary of popular Brazilian
music.
Little
Explorers - Portuguese/English dictionary
Portuguese - English Dictionary with pictures and
links.
For multi-language dictionaries, click here.
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Altavista
Babelfish Translator
A translation tool from SYSTRAN.
Foreign
Word.com
A series of miscellaneous sources dedicated to
online translators and dictionaries.
SYSTRANET
The "megasource" for online translating.
Lexicool
Comprehensive
directory of bilingual and multilingual directories on the Internet.
Fully searchable database, with over a thousand titles references.
Ectaco
Online Dictionaries
Free online searchable dictionaries - English to/from
19 languages.
Babylon
This program performs one-word translation from English to a variety
of different languages, including Portuguese.
Grammars
Gramatica
da Lingua Portuguesa
Great web-site for Brazilian Portuguese grammar.
Gramatica
on Line
Great
Brazilian Portuguese grammar resource, with a helpful "tira-duvidas".
Ciberduvidas
da Lingua Portuguesa
"Question solving" site on obscure grammar
aspects. Send your questions, they will post the answers!
ConVer:
Verb Conjugation
Generates
the various verb forms from their infinitives. Originally it was
a graduation project for the Computer Science course of Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
Verbix
On-line conjugator.
The
Historical Grammar of Portuguese Language
Some
texts about this subject, available on the web site of the Instituto
Camões.
Publico
(newspaper): Style Book
A good guide to the writing of Portuguese language.
There is also a new edition under revision, at http://www.publico.pt/nos/livro_estilo/nova/index.html.
Por
Tras Das Letras
A guide to correct Portuguese grammar; information
on literature, interviews, and dictionaries are also provided.
Learn Portuguese
Simple site with basic information about the Portuguese language.
Teaching Resources
Educare
A
Portuguese language instruction site.
‘Fale
Português’
Site for English speakers interested in learning
more about Portuguese (focused on Brazilian Portuguese).
Portuguese for All
Eight free online Portuguese lessons based on the book De Tudo un Pouco by Mike Harland.
Sonia
Celegatti Althoff
Language
lessons and links for those interested in Brazil or the Portuguese
language.
Other Language Resources
Brazilian
Portuguese
Differences
between Portuguese spoken in Brazil and Portugal.
História da Língua Portuguesa
Brief history of the Portuguese Language, by Adelardo de Medeiros (Brazilian).
Portuguese
Language
Extensive
info about Portuguese language spoken in Brazil, from the Federal
University of Rio Grande do Norte (also in French).
Centro
de Estudos do Pensamento Político
The Centre for Studies in Political Though of the
Technical University of Lisbon provides dictionaries that cover
major concepts and terminology used (mainly, but not exclusively)
in the social sciences.
Centro
Virtual Camões
The
Virtual Center of the Camões Institute is one of the biggest
sites on the web about the Portuguese Language.
Goethe-Tests
100
free online vocabulary tests to/from 10 different languages, including
Portuguese.
Portuguese
tongue twisters
A collection of popular tongue twisters in the
Portuguese language, along with their rough English translations.
Educacional
- A internet na educação (Brazil)
This organization provides a portal for educators
and students throughout all grade levels.
Last updated on March 18, 2008