A comprehensive modern Portuguese grammar written for the English-speaking reader. It covers in detail all the patterns of modern Portuguese as spoken and written in Brazil, focusing on those points which are especially challenging for the English-speaking student, such as the use of the subjunctive, use of the definite article, preterite versus imperfect verb forms, prepositions, and many others. There are examples to clarify every topic and an extensive index is included. The key features of the volume are: it focuses on the needs of the English-speaking reader; it incorporates the results of linguistic research in jargon-free language; it emphasizes modern spoken Brazilian usage; it describes Brazilian pronunciation in detail; it devotes a separate chapter to spelling problems; and it discusses trends of the modern spoken language.
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Mario A. Perini taught linguistics and Portuguese at major Brazilian universities for many years. More recently he has taught Portuguese as a foreign language in universities in the United States. He is now visiting professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Mississippi at Oxford.
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77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting but "you gotta" speak better!,
By Ann Reed (London, England UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Modern Portuguese: A Reference Grammar (Hardcover)
I speak Portuguese and have spent some time in Brazil. I hope that my comments as an ex-learner (still learning though) will be of some good to new learners. This book contains a lot of useful information but the wrong emphasis. It considers three strands in the Portuguese language: formal writing; general use; and colloquial use. What is entered here as formal writing is what I learned at the university for general use. General use in this book includes colloquialisms like the use of "te" with "voce". What is colloquial use according to this book includes creole variations like "nos chegamo" or "nos chegam'" for first person plural "nos chegamos". This is not the standard you are looking for when you buy a grammar (this one is expensive) for guidance on the language you are learning. Comparing with English, it is like telling our EFL students "that's what you gotta have" anything else is too formal!
109 of 120 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sub-standard vesus standard,
By J Freeman (New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Modern Portuguese: A Reference Grammar (Hardcover)
This book tries to convince the reader that some sub-standard practices in spoken portuguese are after all standard. It goes to the extreme of distorting grammatical categories to make the argument look right. The sections on imperative and the pronouns are rather mixed up. The author should stick to the portuguese spoken on good brazilian TV programmes and that you read in interviews etc in reputable brazilian magazines. The worst is that this book is presented as suitable for foreigners. You want to learn standard, not sub-standard language!
92 of 102 people found the following review helpful:
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It is a matter of standards!,
By Tom Robinson (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Modern Portuguese: A Reference Grammar (Hardcover)
This book is an attempt to explain the Portuguese language on both sides of the Atlantic and understand some of its colloquialisms specifically in Brazil. It contains useful information. What is wrong is trying to elevate some sub-standard practices to the status of standard language. It will be better to promote the colloquial, but correct, Portuguese used in Brazilian newspapers and good quality Brazilian magazines like for example Veja. Acknowledgment of colloquialisms is OK, promoting sub-standard language is not!
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