Portuguese for foreigners, Online classes – ruby academy
Portuguese for foreigners: Portuguese for the Corporate World
Here you can find all the benefits of studying at Ruby Academy. The Portuguese course for foreigners and expats with the best methodology online and in-company in Brazil.
Why should you invest in a Portuguese language course for expats?
The phenomenon of crescent globalization and so the necessity of an efficient second language for communication makes the Portuguese language fundamental not only in Brazil and in Latin America, but also globally. Portuguese is the fifth most spoken language worldwide, the third one in the West, and the first one in Latin America. Around 300 million people speak Portuguese daily.
Mastering the idiom means growth, development, and above all, better professional conditions especially in South American to keep up with the fast changes in a world more and more connected. Portuguese opens the doors for personal, professional, and cultural development when it comes to Brazil.
The importance of Brazilian Portuguese
Our literary works recognized worldwide, Brazilian soap operas been exported to many countries and massive representativeness in social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, there is no denying the abundance of the Portuguese language, which perfectly translates our culture, values, and society.
Brazilian Portuguese online and in-company at Ruby Academy
The module Business Portuguese from Ruby Academy focuses on the needs of each of our students.
Innovative methodology step-by-step
Therefore, the first step is an interview with our team so we can understand the real needs of each professional and respectively company, and from there we analyze the goals, desires, and expectation of each student. Finally, we design a target with clear aims and strategies to achieve them through our personalized lessons.
The student in the center of their learning process
Our lessons have as a foundation the “student-centered classes”, which means, the teacher is the mediator, where the student is encouraged to act independently, therefore, the acquisition to master Portuguese is stimulated since the very first lessons.
Exclusive Methodology of Business Brazilian Portuguese
We apply our exclusive methodology, Take Ownership of your Learning Process (TOLP), which means to encourage the student to actively participate in the language acquisition, giving him tools to identify which materials are correct to study outside the classroom environment, one of the greatest challenges of the students is to keep on learning even when they are not regularly studying Portuguese.
Independence to learn
At Ruby Academy, students are guided to study independently, choosing materials that suit their learning needs. This helps avoid the common frustration that arises when they pause and later resume their studies, often needing to review previous levels. Being in Brazil, there are plenty of opportunities to practice Portuguese in everyday situations, such as at markets, banks, and coffee shops. The school also offers immersion classes, where teachers accompany students in public places to practice real-life Portuguese.
Brazilian Portuguese x Business Portuguese
Business Portuguese focuses on the specific vocabulary of the corporate environment, including jargon and slang, setting it apart from a regular Portuguese course. Grammar is less emphasized to allow for more practice in dialogues and writing tailored to business contexts. Although challenging, it is possible to start from the basics in corporate Portuguese, especially for foreigners or expatriates in Brazil who naturally acquire vocabulary through exposure. For students outside Brazil, learning is offered remotely with various recommended materials, providing a full immersion experience.
Personalized Portuguese course for the challenges of your work
Each student must go through the needs analysis, which means the assessment of the needs and alignment of objectives, tasks, and deadlines. Examples of authentic materials are vocabulary and training for interviews in Portuguese, meetings, writing a correct email, negotiation, presentations, and also topics related to the field of the student such as marketing, sales, customer service, tourism & hotel, investments, finances, etc.
Learning and acquiring the real language
At Ruby Academy we distinguish knowledge from acquisition, the first one happens mechanically, the student gets to succeed in an exam, however soon after that knowledge, if not applied, is easily forgotten.
In acquisition, on the other hand, the student is always encouraged to think one level ahead of, where the teacher, as a mediator, “strolls” through this level returning to the student´s level through right inputs (lesson). Within these inputs we generate the study, and the student is capable to replicate the speech and writing (output). Moreover, through self-led study (work) the student can advance in his objectives. After this cycle, the teacher can give feedback on the student´s performance (feedback). And from this journey, we reach our exclusive method, the FLOW: Feedback, Lesson, Output & Work.
In order to reach the FLOW we use different techniques within the communicative approach, described below:
- Task Based Learning – the process of learning with specific tasks to be completed by the student;
- Learn by association – where the student learns by association;
- Concept Checking Questions (CQC) – checking together with the student about the understanding of the material proposed in class;
- Incidental Learning(CQC) – when the student learns by accident (without intention);
- Enough exposure to a clear input – which contains structures one level above of the actual student´s level;
- Focus on practical and realistic teaching of the idiom – working on small individual tasks that can be done individually, in couples, or small groups
Advantages and benefits of investing in a course of Brazilian Portuguese for companies
Professionals with levels of proficiency in Portuguese for business do not only master a conversation, know how to read & write in the idiom, but also have the knowledge to persuade, show arguments, and demonstrate vast vocabulary. They are people with good rhetoric, that take part in the decision making confidently. They present defined strategies, know how to develop ideas and make use of creativity, write well written emails, among other abilities related to Business Portuguese. The leader with Portuguese language skills positions himself/ herself at the fore-front and shows empathy within his/her team, after all, the effort to communicate in Portuguese is a positive trend seeing by the team and show authentic interest not only within the company but above all in our culture and society.
The companies in Brazil seek professionals that master Portuguese because of their own needs and future needs. Sometimes the demand to have a leader with linguistic abilities in Portuguese do not happen immediately. However, the professional that masters the idiom have a much more assertive understanding of the Brazilian market, improves the daily work dynamic, because he/ she is a professional that can think about solutions together with his/her team and knows the importance for the company to communicate in Portuguese with their peer.
We are here to help you to achieve these goals.
