Oxford Take Off in Portuguese

By Michael Harland and Ana Saldanha de Brito

The Take Off course in Portuguese is designed specifically to meet the needs of beginner speakers learning Portuguese on their own. It offers a comprehensive European Portuguese language course for anyone from the absolute beginner to the student who wants to brush up on forgotten language skills. This course book is also available in a pack with cassettes (0198603134) or with CDs (0198603142).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198603150
• ISBN13: 9780198603153
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great for beginners true...

But anyone interested in purchasing this should be forewarned: THIS IS PENINSULAR PORTUGUESE, not Brazilian. (Hence my reason for giving it a four star rating, along with the fact that some examples given on the CD, about 2 percent, do not appear in the book). In any case, I purchased both this product and "Portuguese in Ten Minutes a Day". Both are different dialects, though otherwise I'm immensely pleased with how it's going.

Definitely great for Portuguese beginners!

Before I decided to order the Oxford Take Off in Portuguese online, I checked it out at a library. It's very easy to follow step by step for a beginner. It starts with pronounciations and there are several dialogues in each section. It allows you to practice and pronounce the words many times, hearing the accent well! There's a test at the end of each section to make sure you know all the new phrases/words you learned. The only drawback is that I wished there were more vocabulary and explanations of grammar in each section, so I would recommend to combine a book (i.e., Portuguese in 10 minutes a day) with the CDS/book.