Portuguese: Listening

Free access to international television channels is available at the site called "World Wide Internet TV” at http://wwitv.com/portal.htm, maintained by the Internet TV Forum. It includes broadband channels in Portuguese from Brazil (15; non-broad, 30) and Portugal (8, non-broad, 11).

Portuguese Audio Lessons – Free lessons to download to your computer or MP3 player.    

• Brazilian PodClass: Download from iTunes Free or see the Web Site.
• Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation: Emory University presents audio & video for learning the Brazilian Portuguese alphabet. Download from iTunes Free.
• BBC Brasil – News articles and videos in Portuguese.

Internet radio stations and TV online from Portugal and Brazil. Scroll down the pages to see the listings.

Portuguese Communication Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Portuguese from various locations throughout Brazil and Portugal demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the clips is to provide students of Portuguese with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Portuguese.

CBN Cultura am/fm - Live online broadcasts in Portuguese from Brazil.

EasyPortuguese – This Web site provides lists of vocabulary and expressions by themes as well as a number of lessons for beginning and intermediate learners with audio files.

Learn Portuguese – BrazilianPodClass – These audio and video podcasts are meant for those who want to learn Portuguese as it is spoken in Brazil.

Era uma Vez... Read and hear stories by Hans Christian Anderson, Grimm and C. Perrault as well as fables of Aesop, Phaedrus and Jean de Lafontaine. Various educational activities and games are also available.

The web site Radio Station World provides very complete lists and links to radio station online including radio stations from Portugal and from Brazil.

The Harvard University Department of Romance Languages and Literatures has an excellent list and links for Portuguese media in the Lusophone world.