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Portuguese Complete Course: Basic-Intermediate (Complete Basic Courses)

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I'm trying to learn Continental Portuguese and this book claims that it has a focus on Brazilian Portuguese and also includes Continental. What it doesn't tell you is that all the pronunciations and most conjugations are for Brazilian Portuguese so you have to do your homework to remember the differences. It's like learning American English with a British English course--you'll learn English but all your pronunciations and phrasings will be off.

Also, the structure of this book/CD is awful. It would make more sense to me to learn the very basics (i.e. alphabet, numbers, colors, vocabulary) first and work your way up to more complex phrases. Instead this book dives in head first to cities and names, then works its way back to basic numbers and alphabet, then jumps to full sentences, then eventually works it's way back to vocabulary. For example, you'll learn how to say "How are you, miss?" Before you ever learn how to conjugate the word "Estar" and before you learn the word "miss." By the 10th lesson, after you've been learning conversational phrases, you finally learn how to conjugate your first word. I'd pass on this set.