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Title: Conversational Brazilian-Portuguese : The Easy Method by Edwin B. Williams, Marialice Pessoa ISBN: 0-8050-1503-5 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Refresher
Comment: The reviews of this book on this site are very mixed. That's probably because the book assumes some context. If you already know Portuguese but have gotten rusty, this IS a good book. It focuses on your most likely scenario: casual conversation. It makes it especially easy to shore up verb tenses (my problema). However, it doesn't convey pronunciation. To supplement this book, try to locate a local Brazilian group (start with a university's language department) and meet new people in the process. Or watch a Brazilian film and try not to peek at the subtitles. Another fun approach for conversational Portuguese is to pick up a Brazilian novela (although you'll also need a dictionary for this).
Rating: 1
Summary: Ridiculously out of date, not how Brazilians speak today.
Comment: Page 115 tell us the capital is Rio de Janeiro. Hello! Brasilia has been the capital since 1960!
If it was only that the book spends too much print teaching us how to ask the barber for a shave, or looking for a milliner to make me a new hat, I wouldn't be too upset, but the grammer and pronunciation the book is NOT Brazilian.
My wife, born, raised and educated in Sao Paulo, has forbidden me to use the book. There are too many things (placement of objects, the selection of second person pronouns, pronunication and more) that she had to un-teach me after I studied the book.
Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.
Rating: 4
Summary: SE VOCE FALA PORTUGUES
Comment: Although the instructions are devoted to a more relaxed form of Portuguese language, it may work well in Portugal where Portuguese is carried in a more formal environment. Due to several factors involving regional, social economical factors Brazilian have a tendency of degrading their language, making learning by experience more difficult than would be without any obstacle. In theory this book is very realistic, As far as grammar it is the closest to the real thing I have ever seen in any other book, keeping in mind that the author will not deviate from the correct grammar to give you a first hand experience of the reality you will face asking for directions. Anyone trying to communicate in Portuguese with Brazilians will notice that the author does not include a bad habit developed by Brazialians which is to minimize their words ex: esta approximadamente perto da banca de revista, when talking to an average person, it would be said: esta bem "pertinho" da baca de revista. pertinho = perto. Any word carrying "inho" "inha" just replace "inho" for "o" or 'A" and you find it in the dictionary...did not see this explanation in this book, but I was not too thorough, who said that learning another language would be easy?
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Title: Say It in Portuguese (Brazilian) by Dover ISBN: 0486208095 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1955 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Portuguese Brazilian by Pimsleur ISBN: 0743517695 Publisher: Pimsleur Intl Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Collins Gem Portuguese Dictionary English-Portuguese, Portuguese-English by HarperCollins ISBN: 0004724097 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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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: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Essential Portuguese Grammar by Alexander da R. Prista ISBN: 0486216500 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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