Lonely Planet Brazilian Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India) [Paperback]

Mark Bella (Author), Mark Balla (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India | Publication Date: May 1993

This pocket-sized language guide covers words and phrases needed to effectively communicate with easy-to-follow pronunciation keys and a vocabulary list.

Editorial Reviews

Review

National Geographic Traveler, September 2006
'Lonely Planet Phrasebooks. Portable, pocket-size, cheap, and available for almost any country you might want to visit...'
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Language Notes

Text: English, Portugese

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; Revised edition (May 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0864421761
• ISBN-13: 978-0864421760
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 3.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,083,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Brazilian Portuguese book, April 7, 2000

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[e-mail] (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Brazilian Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India) (Paperback)

As the book title says it's a Brazilian phrasebook, and for those who said that most pages have multiple errors in spelling and grammatical errors, all I can say is that it's so not true. As a Brazilian born and native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I can guarantee that. But you must remeber that Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese are almost two different languages, so you can't use this book to survive in Portugal.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The right perspective, August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lonely Planet Brazilian Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India) (Paperback)

As one reader put it, this book has nothing to do with Portuguese. In fact it is on Brazilian language, which is becoming a distant dialect from the latter. So if you want to learn Portuguese, avoid this book, but if you want to learn Brazilian, that is your choice.

45 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars New edition is full of spelling errors, March 14, 2005

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Grigoriy Strokin (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brazilian Portuguese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook (Paperback)

One of earlier reviews was titled "Hardly a page not packed with mistakes". It was refering to the first edition, but it seems that the authors did not correct any errors since then. Nor did they even tried to find them.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for them not to notice 10 errors on the first 27 pages of the book. I was not looking for errors, I just read those first pages and the errors affronted my eyes.

Examples:
p. 15, "rapazess bonitos" instead of "rapazes bonitos"
p. 17, "pasagem" instead of "passagem"
p. 18, idem
p. 20, "amanha" instead of amanhã (missing ~ sign)
p. 27, "eu fala (inglês)" instead of "eu falo (inglês)"
p. 27, "eu não fala (português)" instead of "eu não falo (português)"

I don't mind a lot of errors when explaining pronunciation rules. With such a number of errors they are just useless and of course no one will speak as a "true brasileiro", as the authors pretend.
Do they really think that "o" in "gato" is pronounced like "o" in English "go" (p. 9)?!

Although my Portuguese is far from perfect, my modest knowledge allowed me to encounter so many errors. Thus bearing in mind that the book lacks any accuracy, I can no longer trust the book when learning more advanced things: I know that practically any page could contain an error, so I could learn a phrase or word incorrectly.

I was always deligted by Lonely Planet guidebooks (Spain, Egypt, Syria), but the phrasebook is awful. Why didn't they hire a Brazilian proof-reader to correct the errors?!