{"id":571,"date":"2009-06-11T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=537"},"modified":"2009-06-11T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T11:01:11","slug":"portuguese-courses-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-courses-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Courses in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s interactive feature, I want to know if any US-based readers are taking formal Portuguese classes, and what you think about the classes.<\/p>\n<p>The question is: <strong>do you take a Portuguese class at a language school or with a private tutor? Is it helpful? Is it worth the time and money?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;ve never taken a class here in the US, I did take a class at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadobrasil.com.ar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Casa do Brasil<\/a> in Buenos Aires, a language school dedicated entirely to the study of Brazilian Portuguese. The price was reasonable, since it was in pesos, which have a great exchange rate to the US dollar, though one semester wasn&#8217;t enough to make me feel confident about my language skills. Living in Brazil and being immersed in the language was the real key to becoming fluent.<\/p>\n<p>What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s interactive feature, I want to know if any US-based readers are taking formal Portuguese classes, and what you think about the classes. The question is: do you take a Portuguese class at a language school or with a private tutor? Is it helpful? Is it worth the time and money? Though I&#8217;ve never&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-courses-in-the-us\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[2016,2223,2255,2410],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-classes","tag-interactive","tag-language-school","tag-portuguese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}