The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time [With CD]

by Fernanda Ferreira

Book Overview

Brazilian Portuguese made easy--and fun The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD makes Brazilian Portuguese a breeze to learn Author Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D. , provides you with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598692771
• ISBN13: 9781598692778
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Everything
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I love this book!

This book has very concise ways of teaching Portuguese to English speakers! Muinto obrigado!!!!!

Muito bem!

I needed to learn Portuguese over the summer so I bought this program. It is VERY thourough and it has really helped me. The CD also helps with pronunciation throughout the lessons.

Great intro to the language!

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".

Brazilian Portugese made fun

Since Brazilian Portugese is one of the two major spoken languages in the southern hemisphere the purchase of the text was a no brainer for me. Having studied Spanish in high school and thru self-study with the aid of such super products as the Penton Overseas products I decided to look into learning some Brazilian. Portugese. This language is one of the Romance languages along with Spanish, French, Italian, and Romanian and many of the words are very similar to either Spanish or Italian. The study of Brazilian Portugese will stand you in good stead if your travel for fun or work in the southern hemisphere. This text even includes a cd to allow you to listen to the language. Boa sorte. CM

Nice Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese

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."