The Intensive Portuguese Initiation Course, a 25-hour course held between 6 and 17 May at the premises of the Lisbon City Foundation, ended with an intercultural celebration. The course brought together 12 trainees of various nationalities from countries all over the world, such as Argentina, Australia, Chile, USA, Iran, Russia, Thailand, Turkey and Ukraine.
Designed for foreigners, migrants, or refugees interested in learning the Portuguese language, this course provided participants with the basic knowledge needed to understand and communicate in Portuguese, thus helping to improve the conditions for integration into society and the job market. By the end of the course, the trainees had acquired fundamental skills in terms of lexicon and grammatical structures, enabling them to:
