<p>What year of high school and how many years of Spanish does your daughter already have? How long are her mission trips to Brazil? If she only goes for 1 or 2 weeks here and there, I’d stick with the Spanish through high school. Spanish is a great background for learning Portuguese. Once in college, she can take Portuguese and/or study abroad in Brazil (some study abroad programs in Brazil have only a pre-req of several semesters of college Spanish). My daughter had 4 years of high school Spanish as a background, never had the opportunity to study Portuguese in the US, but was proficient in Portuguese within 2 months of immersion in Brazil and truly fluent by the end of one year (fluent enough to be hired as a Portuguese TA at college and to be hired as a translator/interpreter for some visiting Brazilian professionals). Rosetta Stone is fairly expensive and not likely to give one enough background to test out of a Portuguese class and get credit. U of Wisconsin (at least a few years ago) has an on-line Portuguese class that would give UW credit that could potentially be transferred. BYU is also apparently big on Portuguese because of all their mission trips. Middlebury offers Portuguese in their summer language institute.</p>
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