LTSN
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics, and Area Studies
Portuguese Language Sites
Brazilian Press Media Guide. A comprehensive collection of links to the Brazilian media (press agencies, newspapers, TV stations, etc), sorted by type.
Caminho de Santiago de Compostela - O Portal Peregrino. A practical guide to pilgrims on the Caminho. Site text in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
Collección Cisneros. Dedicated to Latin American art, and particularly contemporary art, this site contains images of the pieces with interpretative descriptions, and detailed notes on each artist. There's also a study guide for students, with directed activities and the facility to zoom in on pieces to examine them in detail. A nicely-constructed site with a well-designed interface. Site text in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
COMPARA. An online Portuguese-English parallel corpus, with both simple and complex search options.
Contemporary Portuguese Political History On-line. A site packed full of documents, references, images, and audio clips on the history of Portugal in the 20th Century. An excellent resource for students and researchers - recommended.
Diário de Notícias OnLine. Online version of the Portuguese daily newspaper.
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Online A detailed online dictionary of Portuguese, including word definitions, verb conjugations, and examples of usage.
Enciclopédia Verbo na Internet. Online searchable dictionary of Portuguese, plus some links to sites of interest inside and outside Portugal sorted by category. Expresso. The Portuguese weekly periodical online. (This site doesn't appear at all in Netscape 4, and not all internal links work in Explorer 3, so it's probably been 'optimised' for Explorer 4. It's included in this list only because a Portuguese colleague recommends it highly.)
Folha de S. Paulo. Online version of the São Paolo daily newspaper.
Glasgow University's Portuguese Page. Lots of links to Portuguese resources on the Web, and an online text-based beginners course called De Tudo Um Pouco.
Instituto Camões. A cultural institute for the promotion of Portuguese culture and language, with information on the institute and its activities (courses, bursaries, cultural programmes, etc) and a Portuguese literature archive.
Jornal Zero Hora. Brazilian newspaper.
Jornal de Noticias. Portuguese newspaper online.
King's College Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. Site includes links to Portuguese sites worldwide, sorted by country.
Portugal Net. An annotated and sorted collection of Portuguese sites in Portugal and worldwide.
Portuguese by Anne Duguid. A site for English speakers interested in learning Portuguese, and/or learning about Portuguese history and culture. The site is mainly composed of categorised, annotated, and graded links for learners of Portuguese, but there are also weekly articles in English, with links to Portuguese sites, on various cultural and linguistic topics.
Portuguese Embassy Cultural Affairs Page. Information on forthcoming Portuguese-related events worldwide, and links to Portuguese resources on the WWW.
Presidência do Conselho de Ministros. The official website of the Portuguese government, with detailed information on the government, its members, and its programmes, plus links to sites of government departments, and the Parliament.
Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil. The official website of the Presidency of Brazil, with information on the president and offices of the presidency, the history of the Brazilian government, and the legal system, plus links to government departmental websites.
Processamento computacional do português. A site dedicated to computational linguistics on Portuguese, including links to textual resources, lexica, corpora and NLP tools. The main features of the site are the online annotated corpora comprising some 230 million words.
Projecto Natura. A linguistic project dedicated to Natural Language Processing with special focus on Portuguese. There are some downloadable corpora and dictionaries on the site.
Projecto Vercial. A database of Portuguese literature, sorted by category and searchable, with biographical information on authors and many of their original texts online. A very useful resource for students and teachers of Portuguese literature - recommended.
Radiotelevisão Portugesa. The Portuguese national TV and radio broadcaster online, including recorded audio and video clips of news bulletins.
SAPO - Portugal Online. A 'Net portal' to Portugal, with current news stories, and Yahoo-like categories containing links to a wide range of Portuguese sites.
Texts in Portuguese, featuring poetry and prose from writers in Portuguese worldwide.
TSF Rádio Notícias. Online Portuguese news radio station, with live webcasts in RealAudio.
Versos de Segunda. Modern poetry in the Portuguese language.