This text and translation into English accompanies an illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language.

This illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language.

Three photographs of the waterfront in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The photographs also illustrate one of the six bridges linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia on the other side of the Rio Douro.

Three photographs of the waterfront in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The photographs also illustrate one of the six bridges linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia on the other side of the Rio Douro.

Three photographs of the waterfront in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The photographs also illustrate one of the six bridges linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia on the other side of the Rio Douro.

Photographs of the pelourinho, a carved stone pillory erected in public town or village spaces in Portugal between the 13th and 18th centuries. Originally they were used to handcuff or publicly punish criminals; later, they becme general symbols of justic

Pictures of barcos rebelos, flat-bottomed boats on the Rio Douro, which were used to transport port wine, one of Portgual's best-known exports up to 1926. These boats are moored by Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal's centre for storing, botting and maturing por

Vocabulary and language exercise testing knowledge of irregular plurals in Portuguese, embedded in some sentences about contemporary Portugal and globalisation.

Language exercise which combines practice of the use of the prepositions de, em and a with some information on the dates and years when contemporary African nations achieved independence from Portugal

Interactive web-based exercise in Portuguese which tests knowledge of food vocabulary by matching famous national and regional dishes in Portugal with their respective ingredients.

Interactive web-based gap-fill cloze exercise in the form of a recipe of one famous Portuguese dish, and testing food vocabulary.

Photos of Porto taken in 2008