Portuguese language is one of the world's main languages, ranked sixth according to number of speakers (over 200 million). It is the language with the major number of speakers in South America (188 million, above 51% of the continent's inhabitants), and also a major lingua franca in Africa. Portuguese is the official language of nine countries, being co-official with Spanish and French in Equatorial Guinea, with Chinese in the Chinese particular administrative region of Macau, and with Tetum in East Timor. Nowadays more people speak Portuguese than French, German, Italian or Japanese.

The best method to learn a language is to travel overseas and study in a Portuguese speaking country. The official name of the country is República Portuguesa, which is located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.