Basic Portuguese (Brazilian) Complete Course: Cassette/Book Package (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) (Portuguese and English Edition) [Portuguese]

By Living Language

Speak Portuguese with confidence in just 6 weeks!Living Language Portuguese Complete Course is a step-by-step guide to the basics of Portuguese conversation and grammar. This revised course uses the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Portuguese
• ISBN: 0609602691
• ISBN13: 9780609602690
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Living Language
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 2.5" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Good Start

This book is ideal for someone who needs to learn some phrases really quickly. Within a couple of months, you can learn many phrases that are very useful. If you are planning a trip to Rio for a vacation, and want to go to places without totally disoriented, this is a good book for you. However, for those who really want to learn the language, it will leave you confused. The book is not designed to give you detailed explanations as to the phonetical system, nor the phonetical variations and exceptions that you hear on the tape. This book does a greate job of giving a traveler tools to communicate the necessities. If you want more, look elsewhere.

Best bet for the money

This course cannot be beat for the money. I have a Brazilian friend with whom I wanted to go to Rio for a vacation. I spent an hour a day on my lunch break for 1 month, listening to the tapes and following the coursebook, and I can understand quite a bit when spoken to, and I can speak enough to be understood (not so much to hold a casual conversation, but definitely enough for a trip). There are some "slang" differences between the book and the native tounge (so my friend told me), but that's to be expected in any language. For ... a little time over lunch breaks, you can't beat it.

The Only Inexpensive Basic Portuguese Course

Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world. It's unfortunate that such a beautiful language is ignored, because people who actually want to learn it have a hard time finding a company that offers Portuguese courses. Living Language is the only company that offers cassettes in both Brasilian and Continental Portuguese. So when I decided to learn Portuguese, I bought both courses.Unlike the dozen cassette Foreign Service Institute's Portuguese Course (which is actually in Brasilian Portuguese), the Living Language course gives the learner the basics in two cassettes. The forty lessons on the two cassettes are designed in steps. The first four lessons are about pronounciation. There is a noticable difference in the pronounciation and syntax of Brasilian and Continental Portuguese, and Living Language does a very good job in structuring both courses so that the learner is not confused.I also like the Living Language courses because if you follow the directions, they ensure that you will learn the basics of Portuguese. Living Language offers the best variety of basic courses, and it's the only company that offers an inexpensive Portuguese course. If you want to learn Brasilian or Continental Portuguese, this is the company to pick. And remember that after you learn the basics, the best thing to do is to take a trip either to Brasil or Portugal and practice. Immersion will keep the language fresh in your head. I hope you enjoy learning Portuguese as much as I did.

Best I Ever Received

This is the best course I ever received! I received this as a gift and I totally recommend it to anyone wishing to learn Brazilian Portuguese. The pronounciation is crisp and I learned a lot from playing the tapes and reading the textbook. It has inspired me to learn the language further!

great, easy, comprehensive, and portable

I was an exchange student in Brazil. This course was such a vital tool to my success there and to my success at a now fluent speaker of portuguese. The course comes with a dictionary that has the most valid and up-to-date essential vocab words that I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty. If you only buy it for the dictionary it'd be worth, yet the course with the audio help is priceless when really trying to pick up a language.