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Are you looking for a complete course in Brazilian Portuguese which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Brazilian Portuguese will guarantee success!
Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.
The course is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work.
By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:
NOT GOT MUCH TIME?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
AUTHOR INSIGHTS
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.
GRAMMAR TIPS
Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.
USEFUL VOCABULARY
Easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking.
DIALOGUES
Read and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast.
PRONUNCIATION
Don't sound like a tourist! Perfect your pronunciation before you go.
TEST YOURSELF
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Extra online articles at: www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of Brazil.
TRY THIS
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
The course is available as a book (9781444104158), as a pack comprising the book and double CD (9781444104165) and as a double CD (9781444104172).
About the Author
Sue Tyson-Ward is currently a part-time lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at Lancaster Adult College and Chair of ALL Spanish and Portuguese Committee. She has extensive experience of teaching, examining and writing.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Despite the claims made on the cover - Your complete speaking, listening, reading and writing package - and further claims in the introduction, this is no more than a course for beginners that won't take you far. The approach is also very school like, it follows the journey of Sylvia Peters who visits a Brazilian family. If you really want a course that will equip you to interact in the country, you may find out this won't be it, too superficial. My copy has been returned to where it came from!
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This book, along with the accompanying CDs, is excellent. It doesn't talk down to the learner but gives 'the real thing'. By that I mean that the language is spoken at normal speed by both natives and an English person. The book is set out so that between the conversations, relevant things like grammar, vocabulary and spelling, are there to be worked on and memorised. The topics are the very ones that the traveller in Brazil will definitely need - at the airport; meeting people; in the cafe etc.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
3 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The most handiccaping feature of this course is the web of flawed notions behind the teaching, even in the preface. For instance, you come across statements like 'Portuguese has its roots predominantely in Latin...', 'It is basically a Romance (Latin-based) language...', 'Portuguese... based on Latin', 'Portuguese is mainly a Latin language'. None of this is quite right. What needs to be said is that Portuguese derives / evolved / developed from Latin. Local native languages where now Portugal is were defeated by the Latin-speaking Romans together with their speakers. Significant external influences came later, when the spoken Latin that became Portuguese was already established. In Brazil, influence from indigenous speakers and immigrants (Japanese, Italian, German, etc) only later impacted on Portuguese, by then a language with hundred of years of existence.
You also read 'Due to its (Portuguese) Latin roots, which are shared by many English roots...'. This is highly misleading. In their structure, Portuguese and English do not share roots, they are of different origins, Portuguese derives from Latin but English does not. What this book probably means is that some vocabulary is 'shared'. This is in general French words imported into English which have a parallel in Portuguese due to the fact that both French and Portuguese are Romance languages.
Topsy-turviness is everywhere. The English word 'marmalade' (from Portuguese 'marmelo', quince) is said to be associated with 'the far-flung edges reached by Portuguese navigators in the 15th and 16th centuries'. I'm afraid it didn't have to travel that far, it is a simple import into English, through French!
You also read 'Due to its (Portuguese) Latin roots, which are shared by many English roots...'. This is highly misleading. In their structure, Portuguese and English do not share roots, they are of different origins, Portuguese derives from Latin but English does not. What this book probably means is that some vocabulary is 'shared'. This is in general French words imported into English which have a parallel in Portuguese due to the fact that both French and Portuguese are Romance languages.
Topsy-turviness is everywhere. The English word 'marmalade' (from Portuguese 'marmelo', quince) is said to be associated with 'the far-flung edges reached by Portuguese navigators in the 15th and 16th centuries'. I'm afraid it didn't have to travel that far, it is a simple import into English, through French!
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