So, I am working on getting the ol' PT up to reasonable adult working level and have been doing some research on what resources i can use. I've found some interesting things, so thought i would share. I'm not going to detail each one as i'm not totally invested in any of them, but you might find some good ideas.


http://hackingportuguese.com/the-best-portuguese-resources-on-and-off-the-web/
http://erikspen.wordpress.com/
http://wp.clicrbs.com.br/sualingua/ (this is my fave, i think)
http://hackingportuguese.com/roadmaps-to-fluency/
http://hackingportuguese.com/
http://coerll.utexas.edu/brazilpod/cob/ (from the folks who brought you Tá Falado)
http://www.inglesnapontadalingua.com.br/

i'm also working on some texts to prep for concursos (Kaspary, Portugues em exercicios) and reading every Revista Piauí I can get my hands on (i'm addicted, and recommend it highly).

If you've got any good resources to add, please do so. It's hard to find good stuff once you get past beginner.

Your time spent reading about Portuguese should be minimal in comparison to your time spent speaking Portuguese. I'd also try to stay away from anything with much English in it, like the majority of the links you posted. Your ability to speak Portuguese in Brazil will be a much greater resource than any web page.

I'd say for native English speakers Portuguese is about the difficulty level of Spanish, more or less. Both have more or less the same amount of respective sounds that don't exist in English and their structures are nearly identical. Just don't get discouraged when the over dramatic Brazilians start wining about how difficult a language Portuguese is : P

Thanks for these resources!