Brazilian Portuguese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook (Paperback)

by Marcia Monje de Castro (Author), Lonely Planet Phrasebooks (Author)
Key Phrases: você gosta, sauce molho, shop loja, Brazilian Portuguese, Buddhist Budista, Hindu Hindu (more...)

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Product Description
Smoother than capoeira, fresher than a caipirinha, tastier than an empada. Make the most of your travels with Brazilian Portuguese.

*super social section for getting to know people.
*communication tips and cultural information.
*culinary reader offers the wonders of Brazilian cuisine.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 3 edition (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1864503807
• ISBN-13: 978-1864503807
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 3.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #467,123 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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• This item is part of The Lonely Planet Phrasebooks Series.

Customer Reviews

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62 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Brazilian Portuguese book, April 7, 2000

By	[e-mail] (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lonely Planet Brazilian Phrasebook (Paperback)

As the book title says it's a Brazilian phrasebook, and for those who said that most pages have multiple errors in spelling and grammatical errors, all I can say is that it's so not true. As a Brazilian born and native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I can guarantee that. But you must remeber that Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese are almost two different languages, so you can't use this book to survive in Portugal.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The right perspective, August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lonely Planet Brazilian Phrasebook (Paperback)

As one reader put it, this book has nothing to do with Portuguese. In fact it is on Brazilian language, which is becoming a distant dialect from the latter. So if you want to learn Portuguese, avoid this book, but if you want to learn Brazilian, that is your choice.

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars New edition is full of spelling errors , March 14, 2005

By	Grigoriy Strokin (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One of earlier reviews was titled "Hardly a page not packed with mistakes". It was refering to the first edition, but it seems that the authors did not correct any errors since then. Nor did they even tried to find them.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for them not to notice 10 errors on the first 27 pages of the book. I was not looking for errors, I just read those first pages and the errors affronted my eyes.

Examples:
p. 15, "rapazess bonitos" instead of "rapazes bonitos"
p. 17, "pasagem" instead of "passagem"
p. 18, idem
p. 20, "amanha" instead of amanhã (missing ~ sign)
p. 27, "eu fala (inglês)" instead of "eu falo (inglês)"
p. 27, "eu não fala (português)" instead of "eu não falo (português)"

I don't mind a lot of errors when explaining pronunciation rules. With such a number of errors they are just useless and of course no one will speak as a "true brasileiro", as the authors pretend.
Do they really think that "o" in "gato" is pronounced like "o" in English "go" (p. 9)?!

Although my Portuguese is far from perfect, my modest knowledge allowed me to encounter so many errors. Thus bearing in mind that the book lacks any accuracy, I can no longer trust the book when learning more advanced things: I know that practically any page could contain an error, so I could learn a phrase or word incorrectly.

I was always deligted by Lonely Planet guidebooks (Spain, Egypt, Syria), but the phrasebook is awful. Why didn't they hire a Brazilian proof-reader to correct the errors?!