Portuguese C2: Near-native

C2 does not mean sounding like a native speaker. It means the language no longer stands between you and the thought: whatever you want to say can be said, and said in exactly that way.

What is left is fine work — collocations, idioms, levels of style, the differences between the big regional varieties, and the knack of pulling several sources into one short, accurate summary.

Tenses and if-sentences1

The past

C2The simple form in -raA tense you mostly read — and two phrases everybody says.

Articles, nouns and pronouns1

The pronouns

C2The pronoun in elevated languageWhere the pronoun stands in careful writing — and what you need to read but hardly ever write.

Word lists at level C2

Lists: 246 · words: 7979

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Reading texts at level C2

Sentences from this level’s topics

Fê-lo para que se não dissesse o contrário.He did it so that nobody would claim the opposite.

Nunca vira uma tempestade assim.He had never seen a storm like it.

Practise level C2 only