Portuguese

Portuguese belongs to the Romance language group, along with Catalan and Spanish. With over 190 million speakers in Brazil, Portuguese is the most widely spoken language in South America.

The Portuguese language spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries in Brazil, Africa and along the coasts of Asia. Today, Portuguese is the official language of several independent states and is also spoken by many people as a minority or second language. In addition to Portuguese proper, there are about twenty creole languages on a predominantly Portuguese basis.

Portuguese is the sole official language in Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. Together with other languages, Portuguese is the official language in East Timor (together with Tetum), Macau (together with Chinese) and Equatorial Guinea (together with French and Spanish).

The Brazilian and African dialects have some peculiarities compared to European Portuguese, mainly due to the influence of indigenous and African languages respectively and to spatial isolation.

Registration for the foreign language courses in the summer semester 2024 begins on 18 and 19 March. Click here to find the schedule for the booking start of the language courses.
Information about the courses and times will be available in Aura from 01 March 2024.
For English, French, Italian and Spanish courses, it is necessary to take a placement test.
You must register in our course booking system "Aura" before you can register for our language courses.
To the registration
After registering and taking the placement test, click on "Book" in the course overview. Then complete the registration form on your PC.
Please note: Participants who are not enrolled at TU Braunschweig or HBK Braunschweig are required to pay for the courses. Please note the lead time for the required SEPA mandate before registering. Further information can be found on this page under " Fees".
You can book a maximum of three language courses per semester at the Language Centre and only two of them in one language.

The Language Centre of TU Braunschweig offers Portuguese courses at the levels of A1 and A2. Click here for the current course overview and to book a course.

Language Tandems

Are you learning a foreign language and would like to improve your language skills?

Then sign up for our tandem programme and find a suitable tandem partner through our portal!

The principle is simple: You and your tandem partner speak your native language half of the time, your partner’s native language the rest of the time. This way you are not only learning to use the language practically in everyday life, but you also learn a lot about the other culture. Both languages are spoken equally, so you are alternately a learner and a teacher.

Registration for the Language Tandem

Our Course Conditions

Aura is a course management system that allows you to register for and deregister from courses. AURA also allows you to view your exam dates and results, and to download and print your certificates. If your personal data is incorrect, please contact us immediately at sprachenzentrum(at)tu-braunschweig.de.

Advisory Service

General advice on our language courses and offers is offered here:

Advisory Service

For course-specific questions, please contact the person listed below.

The language courses are free of charge for TU students and HBK students.

SEPA registration procedure

A SEPA mandate will be sent to you with the course registration. Please print out the mandate, sign it, and return it within five days to the Accounting Departement or the Language Centre's Main Office (Geschäftszimmer). The mandate will be recorded in the Language Centre within seven days and you will receive a notification by e-mail about the transfer date of the debit. After the direct debit has been transferred, the registration is complete.

Validity of the SEPA mandate

Your SEPA mandate at the Language Centre never loses its validity. This means that you only have to fill out a mandate once, irrespective of the number of courses you book. The costs will be automatically debited from your account. However, if at any time your bank details have changed, please report this immediately Accounting Departement or the Language Centre's Main Office (Geschäftszimmer).

Fees

You can find information about the costs in the List of Fees.

List of Fees of the language Centre (PDF, 409 KB, German)

If you are absent without excuse during the first week of the course, your registration for the course will lapse and you will be excluded from further participation in the course. You must email the instructor if you are unable to attend the first session to avoid being dropped from the course.
Successful course attendance can only be certified if you attend regularly. "Regularly" means that you can only miss up to a maximum of 25 percent of the lessons. It does not matter whether the absences are caused by illness or other reasons.
To meet the minimum attendance requirement, you must not exceed three days of absence (6 SWS for a 2 SWS per week course), or six days of absence (12 SWS for a 4 SWS per week course).

Please clarify whether the credits earned at the Language Centre will be recognized in your department before taking a course at the Language Centre.
The credits awarded for each course are calculated according to the amount of work required and not according to the participant's course level or grade. For a two-hour language course (2 SWS), you will receive 2 credits for the attendance and the successful completion of the exam; for a four-hour course (4SWS), you will receive 4 credits.
The examination board of your respective field of study is responsible for the recognition of credits acquired at other universities. The credit transfer is carried out there. Please contact the responsible person of your faculty. The Language Centre can provide advice and a recommendation when checking equivalences of language courses on request.

Exams and Certificates

We certify your participation in a language course with one of the following course certificates:

Graded course certificate with ECTS credits: You will receive this certificate if you have fulfilled the minimum attendance requirements and all performance requirements. Your grade will appear on the certificate.
Ungraded course certificate with ECTS credits: You will receive this certificate if you have met the minimum attendance requirements and all performance requirements. Your grade will not appear on the certificate.
Attendance certificate without grade and ECTS credits: You will receive this certificate if you have met the minimum attendance requirements but not all performance requirements.

To meet the minimum attendance requirements, you must not exceed three days of absence (6 SWS) for a 2 SWS per week course, or six days of absence (12 SWS) for a 4 SWS per week course.

You can print out your course certificates yourself from our online portal AURA:

Print course certificates

If you would like to study, do research or an internship abroad, you will usually need a DAAD language certificate or a Language Proficiency Report for your application.

If you have already successfully completed a course in the target language at the Language Center in which all four skills (listening comprehension, speaking, reading comprehension, writing) were tested, you can request a language certificate via our online portal AURA.

At present, language proficiency tests are not offered in Arabic, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish.

Information about the required language certificate can be found in your application documents. If you are not sure, please ask at the Mobility Office in the International House!

Fee

The following fees apply for the issuance of the language certificate or the participation in a language test:

35,00 € for students, members and affiliates of the TU Braunschweig
75,00 € for all non-TU Braunschweig members (also former TU members and students of other universities)

Please note that you can only take the language proficiency test after you have submitted a valid SEPA Mandate. No refund of fees will be made if you do not show up for the test without a valid reason.

We have summarised all the important information on the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the classification and comparability of the different language certificates on the following page.

Furthermore, the language skills, which international and German students must have in order to take up a Bachelor's or Master's degree programme at TU Braunschweig are listed. In addition, the English- or German-language qualification that should be achieved upon completion of the respective degree programme is described.

Comparison of Language Certificates and Classification in the CEFR

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Head of Mobility Languages 1

Margarita Pérez Crespo

☎ +49 531 391 5087
m.perez-crespo(at)tu-braunschweig.de

Room 223A, 2nd floor
Bültenweg 74/75
38106 Braunschweig

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