"The Everything[registered] Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD" makes Brazilian Portuguese easy to grasp. Author Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D., provides readers with step-by-step instruction in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Readers learn how to: understand Portuguese grammar; improve pronunciation; and, have basic conversations when travelling, dining out, conducting business, and shopping. This helpful guide includes an audio CD with pronunciation guides, extensive vocabulary lists, and interactive exercises. Packed with dialogue examples, self-tests, and English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English dictionaries, "The Everything[registered] Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD" will have readers speaking - and understanding - Portuguese in no time.
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Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D. (Brockton, MA), is a native speaker of Portuguese. she has been teaching Portuguese at college level since 1993. she has completed a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of new Mexico. Dr. Ferreira has been teaching at Bridgewater State College since 2001, where she is a tenured professor and Acting Chair of the foreign languages Department.
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67 of 72 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great intro to the language!,
By Andrea N. (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time (Everything: Language and Literature) (Paperback)
It's nice that there actually is an affordable and effective book for a beginner to learn quite a bit of Brazilian Portuguese. I thought this book was really well organized and a solid introduction to the language. There are exercises throughout the book as well to practice what you learned. There is also an audio CD which is helpful (A native Brazilian speaker repeats words and phrases which are also written in the book). The chapters are:
1)Introducing the Portuguese Language (Why learn it, similarities to Spanish, European Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese, tips on learning Portuguese, recognizing what you already know) 2)The Sounds of Portuguese (Portuguese alphabet, accent marks, listening practice, consonants, stress pattern in Portuguese, oral and nasal vowels, typing in Portuguese) 3)Beginning Conversation (Greetings, talking on the phone, saying goodbye, etc) 4)Nouns, Articles, and Contractions 5)Introducing "ser" (the verb "to be") 6)Introducing "estar" (the other verb meaning "to be") 7)Describing People and Things in Portuguese 8)The Vocabulary of Numbers 9)First Conjugation Verbs 10)Second Conjugation Verbs 11)Important Verbs to Know 12)Verb Tenses: an Overview 13)More Verbs 14)Negative Words and Constructions 15)Questions and Exclamations 16)The Future and Other Tenses 17)Imperative and Subjunctive Constructions 18)Carnaval, Samba, Feijoada, and Futebol (Brazilian culture!) 19)Means of Communication (In person, by mail, making phone calls) 20)Traveling to Samba-Land (getting papers in order, hotel reservations, currency, a bit of information about the most popular cities...) I was mostly looking to learn the language, not the culture, and this book is indeed mostly teaching the language. I liked the bits of information about the culture though in this book and found it interesting. I definitely recommend this as a book to start off with to anyone serious about learning the language. I went through this while going through Pimsleur lessons for Portuguese and found it to be a great supplement to my learning (In my opinion, Pimsleur goes at quite a slow pace and this book helped me learn more about grammar in a shorter amount of time, as well as expressions, etc, without going at too fast a pace). I recommend it to travelers only if they want to spend some extra time learning a bit more than they absolutely "need".
39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
kindle version?,
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This review is from: The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book (Everything (Language & Writing)) (Kindle Edition)
without the CD I'm not sure this book will be that great. Amazon has a great product with the Kindl but I don't think 9.99 is a good value for this book since it is missing half the content...the audio part. So unless the publisher offers the audio portion as a free download with this Kindle version, then Amazon needs to come up with a way to blend these two mediums in the future.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Effective, but not great!,
By ALICE (Paris) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time (Everything: Language and Literature) (Paperback)
Good book. You will learn the basics in portuguese. That being said, it's a very slow method: you will have to reach page 58 to learn "to be" (present tense) in portuguese. Moreover, each lesson begin with a very basic grammar explanation (what is a noun?, what is an article?). I find it a bit condescending (the author could have assumed that her readers went to elementary school).
The CD is very helpful. I would not buy the book without it.
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