Beginners' Italian and Portuguese

About this course

Beginners' Italian and Portuguese at Oxford offers the rare opportunity to start two major European languages from scratch and to develop real proficiency in both within a four-year undergraduate degree. Italian and Portuguese are members of the Romance language family, sharing Latin roots, and a student who has learned one will find the other more accessible, though each has its own distinct phonology, grammar, and literary tradition that demands serious study in its own right. Italian gives you access to one of the world's great artistic and literary heritages, the language of Dante, Petrarch, Machiavelli, and a tradition of opera, architecture, painting, and film that has shaped Western culture. Portuguese is a world language of remarkable reach: spoken not only in Portugal but in Brazil, which has the world's largest Lusophone population, and across communities in Africa and Asia, it

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 53% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 12% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 6% of graduatescards →

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