<p>I am confused. Is the notion that the OP’s daughter’s college does not offer Portugese, but is willing to give a student college credit for Portugese provided she can pass someone else’s first-semester second-year exam? Who determines what is an acceptable exam? Who monitors and grades it? Who decides what “passing” is? If the credit-granting college does not see and grade the actual exam, who certifies all of this to it? And for what kind of compensation?</p>
<p>I don’t think you can simply call up a university and say “Will someone give me a second-year-level exam in Portugese, grade it, and tell my college that (if) I passed?” If I took the call, my answer would be, “Sure! Provided you are eligible to register in the course, if you register for it and pay the tuition and fees, we will be happy to test you on the material, to put the results on your transcript, and to send it to whomever you wish. You may want to check with the instructor as to whether he is willing to give you a passing grade whether or not you come to class, though.”</p>
<p>In my (limited) experience, widely available language software matches up very poorly with university language instruction. The former tend to empahsize practical conversational skills to the exclusion of all else, and the latter are much more systematic and grammar-centric. Of course, at a high level they both get to the same place, but at the end-of-first-course level they may barely be in the same universe.</p>