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[quote=Anonymous]Is there a Portuguese weekend school in the area? Generally that's the choice international families make, OP. We send our kids to the French weekend school, and know people who send their kids to the Japanese, Argentine and German weekend schools.

If you are in touch with other Portuguese families, and there is no school yet, you could get a group together, and start one, informally or formally. One of the Portuguese parents could lead a group, or you could find a formally trained instructor. This is how the French school came about.

In addition to this, we watch the news and movies in French, make them read French literature, and try as much as we can to speak in French (although they revert to English when they're together). The one thing we can't do is make them progress in the French essay-writing style - they don't have quite that level of competence, which means they would struggle in French high school and to pass their Baccalaureat (end of high school exam), which is very writing-heavy. Thankfully, they're targeting English-speaking universities.
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