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Title: A Dictionary of Informal Brazilian Portuguese With English Index by Bobby J Chamberlain, Ronald M. Harmon ISBN: 0-87840-344-2 Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Usefulness NEVER goes out of "style"
Comment: Beware the temporal snob I always say, as a good colloquial saying never goes out of style. This book is FANTASTIC. I've worked many of the expressions from this book into my conversations with Brazilians and they not only knew what I was talking about, it always produced a great laugh and the question "where does a gringo ever learn to say such things?" From this book I tell ya! CERTAIN (not all) slang expressions do fall from usage, and some new ones are added - does that erase the value of this incredible text? Not for a second. Can you imagine how old our expression "take a hike" is? Or how about "What's up?" (I'm sure it was around before Bugs Bunny said it in 1939) "What's up?" Is as hip now as it was over 60 years ago, as are the expressions used in this book. But it's not about being hip, it's about understand figurative language and being able to express yourself figuratively. That's what this book does for you, and I assure you that as much as people said "that's diesel" 5 years ago, we never needed that expression to begin with (but I doubt we'll ever stop saying "what's up"...case closed). The good ones never die. Buy it! And to you guys who don't like the fact that whatever was said in the latest rap cd isn't in here - deixa de encher o saco, PQP~!
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitive and impressively comprehensive
Comment: The authors make a valiant attempt to compile a comprehensive register of Brazilian slang but by its very nature is flawed due to the impossibility to keep up with the rapid pace at which languages change. The authors neglect to include commonly used expressions like "pagar um mico" and "soltar a franga" but is, overall, the impressive result of an obviously tremendous amount of hard work. Despite some inescapable shortcomings the book prooves itself to be one of the most definitive reference guides to a side of Brazilian Portuguese too often excluded by mainstream textbooks.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book's the bomb
Comment: I must disagree with the other reviewer who said this book was out of date. This book is amazing and super-useful. I just came back from a year in Brasil (I returned in January of 2001) and I carried this book everywhere. It was very helpful when it came to reading, drinking and brandishing insults.
At first glance the book does look old. It looks like it might be xeroxed pages from a typewriter, but after a couple moments with the book all my friends were trying to steal it from me. It made me feel local so much faster than any other book, tape or video I had packed in my arsenal. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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Title: 501 Portuguese Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by John J. Nitti, Michael J. Ferreira ISBN: 0812090349 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Essential Portuguese Grammar by Alexander Da R. Prista ISBN: 0486216500 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Say It in Portuguese: Brazilian Usage by Alexander R. Prista ISBN: 0486208095 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1954 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Conversational Brazilian-Portuguese by Cortina ISBN: 0805015035 Publisher: Cortina Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Grammar of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese by Earl W. Thomas ISBN: 082651197X Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1975 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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