We need 3 more students for Portuguese class!

[sjcap.livejournal.com]

I went yesterday to the final day of Somerville High School's adult evening ed registration to sign up for Portuguese for Beginners. And they told me that they need 5 students to make a class, but only one and a half had enrolled so far. (This is the first year the the city's night school is offering Portuguese.)

The Principal, Mike Ciampa said that he would put off the deadline and the start of a Portuguese class for another week if we can hustle up 3-4 more students to make a class.

Please help spread the word! We need 3 more students to commit by this coming Monday or Tuesday to save beginners Portuguese class!  C'mon, it'll be fun!!

If you know of anyone who may be interested, here are the basic facts . . .


Portuguese for Beginners
Meets Tue nights 6pm - 9pm
Somerville High School
Will begin the last week of September
10 week course
Cost:  $150  (30 hours instruction @ $5 hour)  **incredibly cheap!

In order to happen, the class needs 5 students.
(so far: 1 definite and 1 maybe.)

 

Need to confirm intent to register by: Monday September 22.

More info from Somerville High School: 617.625.6600 x6159 or
http://www.somerville.k12.ma.us/education/dept/dept.php?sectionid=940&sc_id=1221706797&PHPSESSID=3532f5ebfd458636e41cdadf63c26be3

Learn beginners Portuguese!  It's fun! It's cheap! It's close! Small class size! Make new friends! Learn a new language!


Obrigado!

Comments

[ifotismeni]

oh my gosh! i'm actually hoping to learn a bit of portuguese!
how fortuitous :D

[nu-luba.livejournal.com]

what is a half a student?

[sjcap.livejournal.com]

half a student = maybe yes / maybe no

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

i was wondering that myself..

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

> what is a half a student?

Someone who just shows up for the linguica.

[el-cubano-15.livejournal.com]

Will the class be taught from a European perspective or will it focus on Brazilian Portuguese? There is a huge difference. Thanks.

[purpless77.livejournal.com]

el cubano 15, I was about to ask the same thing. The description should be changed to add in which type of Portuguese this class is. The terms Portuguese and Spanish are tossed rather loosely in this country. I know when I see a Spanish class that doesn't say otherwise, I assume it to be Latin American Spanish and not Spain Spanish, which is completely different then the Spanish spoken in other countries. It'd be great to find European Spanish and Portuguese taught somewhere. A friend and I have been looking for that for a while and have come up empty. I remember in school the Spanish teacher told us she wasn't going to be teaching us Spain Spanish and the class argued with her. She was understanding but still didn't teach us the form we wanted to learn.

[sjcap.livejournal.com]

don't know.
i'm assuming that because this is the 1st year that somerville is offering it, that it is in response to the growing brazilian community in the city. there is plenty of european portuguese around town, but obviously the current in somerville now is towards brazilian.
call the school, maybe they could give the official answer.

[purpless77.livejournal.com]

That could be it. I find it odd though, you'd think they'd just have more English classes for them, instead of adding Brazilian classes for us. They did come to an English speaking country, it'd be more helpful for them to learn English. My Brazilian friends learned it pretty quickly.