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5.0 out of 5 stars
If you're going to Portugal, this is the only book you'll need., February 14, 2007
This review is from: Portuguese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook (Paperback)
Lonely planet never fails to provide the best travel books. This tiny book provides a wealth of useful information. What I like about this book is that it focuses specifically on communicating in Portugal, rather than Brazil. It is well organized into several handy cagetories such as directions, shopping, lodging, etc. The front contains standard info such as numbers, days of the week, and survival phrases, while the back contains a mini-dictionary.
The best part about this book is the fact that it not only gives the Portuguese phrase with its English equivalent, it also provides a spelled-out phonetic pronunciation. Out of all the study material I have, these simple phonetic spell-outs have been the greatest help in my pronunciation, and I now have nearly perfected my portuguese accent.
I've seen similar Portuguese pocket books, and they just don't compare to this one.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent reference that fits in your pocket, September 16, 2009
This review is from: Portuguese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook (Paperback)
This is a wonderful little phrase book, which is handy, yet expansive (stretching beyond the simple "transport", "food" and "necessities", to go into suggested phrases for more esoteric areas including romantic encounters). The book also includes a short (but useful) dictionary at the end.
Beware, though, that the iPhone app by the same name(also by Lonely Planet), while more expensive, is far, far inferior, both in terms of usefulness and depth.
If you are travelling to Portugal (or Brazil, or any other Portugese-speaking country) grab the printed version (a week in advance, so you can read through it) and off you go.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great travel book, December 7, 2009
This review is from: Portuguese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook (Paperback)
If you really study the pronumciation examples and then use the phrases you'll go far!
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