This book and its two companion CDs provide a complete guide to the pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese. Devised to meet the particular needs of native English speakers, "Talking Brazilian" may be used by independent students seeking to improve their pronunciation skills as well as by students in traditional classrooms and language labs. The book takes a practical approach in its numerous exercises and the CDs offer exercises and dialogues recorded by native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese.
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Mario A. Perini is associate professor of linguistics at Pontifica Universidade Catolica, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He has taught linguistics and Portuguese at major Brazilian universities for more than thirty years and as visiting professor has taught Portuguese as a foreign language at several universities in the United States.
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This product fills a hole in Portuguese instruction.,
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This review is from: Talking Brazilian: A Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation Workbook (Paperback)
This is an excellent resource for someone who is learning Brazilian Portuguese. By concentrating specifically on pronunciation, one of the more difficult areas of learning Portuguese is made more accessible. Pronunciation is a killer and is very difficult, especially for the many students who already know some Spanish. I have noticed a great improvement in the student to whom I am teaching an independent study in Porguguese since she began using this system to practice.
I agree with the reviewer who was annoyed by the music and the woman's voice, but that's part of audio language learning, it seems. I simply ripped the CD's to the harddrive of my computer and skip these sections fairly easily. It is important to note that this is not a course for learning Portuguese. This is a way to work on Brazilian pronunciation for those who are studying Portuguese and do not get to speak with native speakers often. It is especially useful if you are using a traditional grammar approach to learning. One drawback is, indeed, the price. Forty-five dollars does seem awfully steep but it's a case of supply and demand. There is simply no other product out there that fills this need in Portuguese language instruction.
26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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Top quality,
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This review is from: Talking Brazilian: A Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation Workbook (Paperback)
There is one problem with this book: the price. I don't own it, but I used it last summer while studying Brazil. One of my teacher's had a copy and it is excellent. It's very clear and my Portuguese pronunciation is so much better thanks to this book. You could not ask for a better guide, a cheaper one, yes, but a better one, no. If it comes down in price, I will surely be purchasing a copy.
67 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible CDs,
This review is from: Talking Brazilian: A Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation Workbook (Paperback)
The CDs that come with the book are horrible. Each lesson starts with up to 40 seconds of guitar music. Each time you want to review the lesson (which is the whole point of having the CDs), you have to listen to the stupid guitar music. Again and again and again.
Next, each track starts with an annoying woman commanding you to "Listen!" That gets real old real fast. What else would you do BUT listen? Between the idiot music and the annoying woman, you want to toss the CDs into the trash. And yet without the CDs the book is almost worthless. The only way to fix this problem is to spend yet another $30 on audio editing software, and remove the useless and annoying junk from every track, and burn new actually useful CDs. Why the author thought that we are all MTV-generation morons, who needed to be "entertained," instead of educated, is a mystery. Thus, instead of a $45 book, you really have to pay $75, if you want a useful product.
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