Next Events
PFL Club
Discussing methodologies and practices
🗓️ Schedule – 1st half of 2026
March 14 | Understanding the perfect and imperfect past tenses of the indicative. DONE!
April 11 | Uses of the gerund and the present continuous. 👥 Registration available here.
May 9 | Formal, informal and present indicative future to express future actions.
👥 Registration available here.
June 13 | The pronunciation of -ão and other nasal sounds.
👥 Registration available here.
Sign up for 4 meetings and get 20% off!!!!
👥 Registration available here.
🕙 Time: Saturday, from 10am to 12pm (Brasília time)
online, via Zoom
Past Events
13th Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
Connecting teachers for future challenges
🗓️ Date: February 7, 2026
🕙 Time: Saturday, from 10am to 11:30am (Brasília time)
online, via Zoom
👥 Recording available Here.
Continuing training
Teaching PFL for Anglo-Saxons
PFL for German speakers
🗓️ Dates: October 25th and November 1st, 2025
🕙 Opening hours: Saturdays, from 10am to 12pm (Brasília time) 👥 Guest teacher: Luciana Lousada
Continuing training
Teaching PFL for Anglo-Saxons
PFL for English speakers
🗓️ Dates: October 4, 11, 18, 2025
🕙 Opening hours: Saturdays, from 10am to 12pm (Brasília time) 👥 Guest teacher: Giselda Pereira
12th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
Teaching PFL for Anglo-Saxons
🗓️ Date: August 30, 2025
🕙 Time: Saturday, from 10am to 11:30am (Brasília time)
👥 Guest teachers: Giselda Pereira and Luciana Lousada
Recording available: https://youtu.be/nQa_BmbQzEo
Continuing training course
Games, dynamics and theater in PFL classes
🗓️ Dates: July 5th to 26th
🕙 Opening hours: Saturdays, from 10am to 12pm (Brasília time) 👥 Teachers: Camilla Wootton Villela and Vinicius Guarilha
6th. Online Congress of Portuguese as a Foreign Language
Who teaches and who learns Portuguese and its variants? Congress date: June 6th and 7th, 2025
Time: 9am-5pm (Brasília)
Programming: www.gruposoubr.com.br/congresso2025
Improving Practices in PFL
Continuing training course for PFL teachers
March 29, 2025 - Class 1
April 5, 2025 - Class 2
April 12, 2025 - Class 3
April 26, 2025 - Class 4
Saturdays, 10am-12pm (Brasília)
11th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
The challenges of a career as a PFL teacher: the needs for continued training February 15, 2025 (Saturday)
10am-11:30am (Brasília)
Recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GP0cj4mqok
Continuing Training Course
Assessment, Leveling and Proficiency in PFL
Ways to measure student skills
October 19th to November 9th, 2024
Saturdays, 10am-12pm (Brasília)
10th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
Leveling in PFL: what is it, what is it for and how to do it?
September 14, 2024 (Saturday)
10am-11:30am (Brasília)
Recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOjuckBRGwI&t=33s
Literature in PFL classes
Grammar, culture and conversation through literary texts
August 10th and 31st, 2024
Saturdays, 10am-12pm (Brasília)
Welcoming and teaching Portuguese
Continuing training for PLAc teachers and volunteers
Everything a PLAc teacher needs to know to teach Portuguese to refugee immigrants
Date: February 19 to March 11, 2024
Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:30 pm to 9 pm
Modality: online and synchronous classes
Location: Zoom
Classes will be recorded!
9th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
Teaching PFL to children
February 3, 2024 (Saturday, 10am-11:30am)
Recording available at: https://youtu.be/JVJPttQeGsQ
2nd. ConectPLE
Didactic sequences on the agenda
October 7, 14, 21, 28 and November 4, 2023
(Saturdays, 10am-11:30am)
Recordings of the 5 meetings are available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovPHzDDRy_c&list=PLAiKYn-BI3zeZokoCh3N01oQQ4WemRzJJ
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4th. Online Congress of Portuguese as a Foreign Language
June, 2nd. and 3rd. 2023
Congress schedule is available: bit.ly/congressople2022
Nearby Languages Project
PFL for French, Spanish and Italian speakers
February, 4th. 2023
7th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
PFL for French, Spanish and Italian speakers
February, 4th. 2023
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ConectePLE
October and November, 2022
Conecta PLE – Didactic sequences on the agenda – How to set up your classes focusing on grammar, writing, pronunciation, conversation and culture, which Grupo Sou Brasil is pleased to be organizing in partnership with Grupo GEN!
In this series of five free online meetings, expert teachers talk about the development of didactic sequences for Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) classes based on grammar, writing, pronunciation, conversation and culture.
Check out the full schedule:
Meeting 1 (08/10/22): Grammar classes for different levels and nationalities
Professor Lucila Matsumoto (Grupo Sou Brasil)
Meeting 2 (10/22/22): Practical writing activities
Professor Fernando Pedretti (Uncomplicating with Fernando)
Meeting 3 (11/05/22): Pronunciation teaching techniques
Professor Luiz Roos (National University of Córdoba)
Meeting 4 (11/19/22): Stimulating conversation and expression
Professor Camilla Wootton Villela (Brasileirices)
Meeting 5 (03/12/22): How to approach Brazilian cultural diversity
Professor Ailla Ceres (Central Pindorama)
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Portuguese as a Foreign Language for business
Learning process
September 3rd., 10th, 17th, 24th 2022
October, 1st 2022
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6th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
PFL for business
July, 6th. 2022
Recorder available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zBg__ou0No
Grammar for PFL teachers
Learning process
March and April, 2022
5th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
How to teach Grammar?
February, 12nd. 2022
Recorder available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/gQ8AMER1FNs
Round Table Discussion
How to level PFL students?
December, 4th. 2021
Distant Languages Project
September - October 2021
4th. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
How to chose PFL didatic books?
14 de agosto de 2021
2nd. Online Congress of Portuguese as a Foreign Language
June, 25th and 26th 2021
Congress schedule is available: bit.ly/congressople
Portuguese Trainning
How to plan PFL courses?
April, 10th, 17th, 24th 2021
3rd. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
Challengers and plans for 2021
January, 29th 2021
2nd. Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
The Celpe-Bras Challengers
Guests: Elysio Soares (INEP) and Fernando Pedretti (@descomplicandocomfernando)
October, 15th 2020
1st. Online Congress of Portuguese as a Foreign Language
June, 26th and 27th 2020
Congress schedule is available
https://grazielaforteple.wixsite.com/congressople2020
Portuguese as a Foreign Language Get Together
March, 28th 2020
Trainning with special guests
July, 15th and 29th 2019
