As an observer advisory CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries), participated on 25 to 31 March 2010, in Brasilia, the International Conference on the Future of Portuguese..

The FAAN was represented by Dr. Manuel Vanda and Artur Filipe Vidal, who attended the conference, either in the sectors of civil society and government sector.

What is ultimately lusophony after all?

What is ultimately lusophony after all? Emerson Santiago

(in OPatifúndio)

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A brief reflection ... is it necessary to be a former Portuguese colony to belong to the lusophone group?

When I was a child in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, two events marked me with respect to the subject. The first was when I first heard a portuguese man speaking, Roberto Leal, and he was in the program of Chacrinha, if I remember correctly. I asked my parents, who were close by, what was wrong with his mouth ... that boy certainly had some physical problem, to talk like that all truncated ... they just explained that he was a Portuguese, that they spoke the same language that we did, only that way, and stuff.

The SM Group will release in 2010 of high school textbooks, in which it will use the poems GOODBYE TO TIME OF STARTING UP and Agostinho Neto, in books on geography and literature and BE-PROTAGONIST PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, Volume 3, respectively.

The SM Group does more than produce textbooks: Provides comprehensive educational programs that seek to address the different dimensions of human development by supporting as closely as possible the work of educators.

Inter Academy session of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Academy of Sciences and AGLP in Lisbon, April 14, 2009. (From Wikipedia)

The Galician is not derived from Castilian. It was "castilian". The Galician derives from the Portuguese as the language spoken in Brazil or in Angola. It is the Portuguese in Galicia.