Customer Reviews

Brazilian Portuguese Level 1

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At last this is the best!!I tried Rosetta but had to returned it because it was boring and to slow moving. I'm also a big fan of Pimsleur but too bad it's only audio. Semantica is entertaining and easy to follow. You don't lose focus because it's like watching a movie broken down into small clips. They teach you real life scenarios as opposed to learning phrases here and there that have no use in real life. I just wish they would hurry up and come out with more.

After going through 5 courses in Brazilian Portuguese: Portuguese in 10 minutes a day, Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Manuela Cook and this, I consider this a fine addition to the long slog to acquire the language. It is well produced and entertaining. However, if you are short of cash and a complete beginner, I'd go for Portuguese in 10 minutes a day. It is a lot cheaper and also fun. The Semantica course is expensive on Amazon and can be bought from the Semantica website for $50 less (if you have a Paypal account or your visa card is verified by Paypal. I have a Paypal account but security on that system is so tight, it shuts me out of my own account. That's why I bought from Amazon at the much higher price.)

I still consider the Pimsleur 90-lesson Portuguese course to be the best. I would still recommend that over the Semantica or any other course mentioned above. Pimsleur, however, is very expensive.

Muito bom!!!
I gave this to my kids to watch before traveling to Brazil and they loved it. I myself speak pretty decent Portuguese, yet still picked up a lot of new phrases from the more advanced chapters. Great product.

This is a fun and entertaining "telenovela" that teaches Portuguese. I really enjoyed watching the saga of Paul as he discovered Rio and the Brazilian culture. The pace is slow and easy, introducing new words and helping you become conversational in Portuguese. Lots of fun!
The podcasts are also a great way to watch the series, available from [..]

Abraços!
Elena

Ther are few matrials,it cause a difficulty to leran portuguese.
But this material is a very good for English native speaker
and nonnative speaker too.
It's fanyastic!

Paul is obviously a native speaker of Portuguese. He's not an American - he's obviously a Brazilian trying to speak broken Portuguese. The few times he speaks English, it's hysterically funny because he has a foreign accent. For example, listen for when he says "Sorry". Too funny. That being said, this is a great program for learning Brazilian Portuguese. For those familiar with the Spanish language program "Destinos", this is the closest thing you get to the "telenovela" approach to language instruction.

This works. The lessons are well structured and there's a lot of appropriate repetition. However, Paul's fake American shtick can get annoying with both the fake accent and the bumbling idiot nonsense. I don't think an English language program for Brazilians with a fake Brazilian character being played by an American speaking fake broken English and acting lazy, criminal, and corrupt would work without offending and annoying Brazilians. This is a really good program so just put aside the anti-American nonsense and try to learn the language.

I've been working in Brasil for 3 months now & have been listening to Pimsleur's Phase 1 & 2 audio courses (very good.)
I've also been using the book "Portuguese in 10 Minutes a Day (also very good.)

The videos in this package are a fantastic adjunct to the materials I've been using.

I highly recommend them to anyone who wants to learn Brasilian Portuguese!