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- Spoken by over 210 million people, Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world.
- There are over 1.3 million native speakers of Portuguese living in the United States. Portuguese is the official language of eight countries including Brazil, Portugal, and Mozambique, and an unofficial language in numerous linguistic islands in China and India.
- Since it is so important and so rarely studied, knowledge of Portuguese is a
very marketable skill, especially in commerce and banking.
- The richness of literature in Portuguese is astonishing: from The Lusiads – the great epic poem of the European Renaissance, to the modern Brazilian novel – the best-kept secret in the Western Hemisphere.
- Brazil is the eighth largest economy in the world and features the Amazon jungle, huge urban cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and over 6,000 miles of beaches.
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