The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time (Everything: Language and Literature) (Paperback)

by Fernanda Ferreira (Author)

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Product Description
The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD makes Brazilian Portuguese a breeze to learn! Author Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D., provides you with step-by-step instruction in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Learn how to:

• Understand Portuguese grammar
• Improve pronunciation
• Ask questions in Portuguese
• Have basic conversations when traveling, dining out, conducting business, and shopping

This helpful guide includes an audio CD with pronunciation guides, extensive vocabulary lists, and interactive exercises. Packed with dialogue examples, self-tests, and English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English dictionaries, The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD will have you speaking--and understanding--Portuguese in no time.

About the Author
Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D. is a native speaker of Portuguese. She has been teaching Portuguese at the college level since 1993. She has completed a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ferreira has been teaching at Bridgewater State College since 2001, where she is a tenured professor and acting chair of the Foreign Languages Department. Dr. Ferreira lives in Brockton, MA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (July 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598692771
• ISBN-13: 978-1598692778
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,173 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese, February 29, 2008

By	Annissa Madison - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I chose this out of the many options here because I wanted to focus just on Brazilian Portuguese. I am happy with the book. It is a solid, easy to read introduction to Brazilian Portuguese. If you choose to use the CD, the excerpts arrive in a timely manner...just when you're about to say to yourself, "I can't grasp this without hearing it."

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to the language!, December 18, 2008

By	D. Nowlin "Andrea N." - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's nice that there actually is an affordable and effective book for a beginner to learn quite a bit of Brazilian Portuguese. I thought this book was really well organized and a solid introduction to the language. There are exercises throughout the book as well to practice what you learned. There is also an audio CD which is helpful (A native Brazilian speaker repeats words and phrases which are also written in the book). The chapters are:

1)Introducing the Portuguese Language (Why learn it, similarities to Spanish, European Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese, tips on learning Portuguese, recognizing what you already know)
2)The Sounds of Portuguese (Portuguese alphabet, accent marks, listening practice, consonants, stress pattern in Portuguese, oral and nasal vowels, typing in Portuguese)
3)Beginning Conversation (Greetings, talking on the phone, saying goodbye, etc)
4)Nouns, Articles, and Contractions
5)Introducing "ser" (the verb "to be")
6)Introducing "estar" (the other verb meaning "to be")
7)Describing People and Things in Portuguese
8)The Vocabulary of Numbers
9)First Conjugation Verbs
10)Second Conjugation Verbs
11)Important Verbs to Know
12)Verb Tenses: an Overview
13)More Verbs
14)Negative Words and Constructions
15)Questions and Exclamations
16)The Future and Other Tenses
17)Imperative and Subjunctive Constructions
18)Carnaval, Samba, Feijoada, and Futebol (Brazilian culture!)
19)Means of Communication (In person, by mail, making phone calls)
20)Traveling to Samba-Land (getting papers in order, hotel reservations, currency, a bit of information about the most popular cities...)

I was mostly looking to learn the language, not the culture, and this book is indeed mostly teaching the language. I liked the bits of information about the culture though in this book and found it interesting.

I definitely recommend this as a book to start off with to anyone serious about learning the language. I went through this while going through Pimsleur lessons for Portuguese and found it to be a great supplement to my learning (In my opinion, Pimsleur goes at quite a slow pace and this book helped me learn more about grammar in a shorter amount of time, as well as expressions, etc, without going at too fast a pace). I recommend it to travelers only if they want to spend some extra time learning a bit more than they absolutely "need".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars kindle version?, March 17, 2009

By	Cesar Trujillo "Cesar" (Phoenix, Arizona, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

without the CD I'm not sure this book will be that great. Amazon has a great product with the Kindl but I don't think 9.99 is a good value for this book since it is missing half the content...the audio part. So unless the publisher offers the audio portion as a free download with this Kindle version, then Amazon needs to come up with a way to blend these two mediums in the future.