Acknowledgments

First, my gratitude to those Portuguese language students who have shown a commitment to the Portuguese language and culture by participating tirelessly in our daily language classes at the University of Washington. They have been the main reason why I developed this material. I also would like to thank my colleagues for their input along the way, particularly to Ellen Oliveira from University of Southern California (USC) for her encouragement and suggestions. In addition, a special note of gratitude to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington (UW), the UW Libraries, UW Center for Global Studies, and the UW Language Learning Center. Thanks to their constant institutional support, I have been able to work on this Open Educational Resource (OER) and also on other educational projects.

I also would like to acknowledge other OER authors and collaborators, including those involved in the development of the books and pod-casts below, which we have been using in Portuguese classes at the University of Washington:

Português para Principiantes: https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/portuguese/

ClicaBrasil – https://laits.utexas.edu/clicabrasil/

Tá-Falado – https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/brazilpod/tafalado/

Língua da Gente – https://linguadagente.coerll.utexas.edu/

Plural: Português Pluricêntrico – https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zs4s2p8

Tirando de Letra – Português Brasileiro para Estrangeiros https://www.letraria.net/tirando-de-letra-portugues-brasileiro-para-estrangeiros/

Bate-Papo: An Introduction to Portuguese – https://uw.pressbooks.pub/batepapo/