Fernanda Ferreira
Autor(a) de The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time
About the Author
Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D., has been teaching at Bridgewater State College
Obras de Fernanda Ferreira
The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time (2007) 38 cópias
The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Practice Book with CD: Improve your language skills with inteactive lessons and… (2012) 14 cópias
The Everything Essential Brazilian Portuguese Book: All You Need to Learn Brazilian Portuguese in No Time. (2013) 7 cópias
The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Phrase Book: Learn Basic Brazilian Portuguese Phrases - For Any Situation!… (2012) 2 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Membros
- 63
- Popularidade
- #268,028
- Avaliação
- 5.0
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
- Idiomas
- 1
1)Introducing the Portuguese Language (Why learn it, similarities to Spanish, European Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese, tips on learning Portuguese, recognizing what you already know)
2)The Sounds of Portuguese (Portuguese alphabet, accent marks, listening practice, consonants, stress pattern in Portuguese, oral and nasal vowels, typing in Portuguese)
3)Beginning Conversation (Greetings, talking on the phone, saying goodbye, etc)
4)Nouns, Articles, and Contractions
5)Introducing "ser" (the verb "to be")
6)Introducing "estar" (the other verb meaning "to be")
7)Describing People and Things in Portuguese
8)The Vocabulary of Numbers
9)First Conjugation Verbs
10)Second Conjugation Verbs
11)Important Verbs to Know
12)Verb Tenses: an Overview
13)More Verbs
14)Negative Words and Constructions
15)Questions and Exclamations
16)The Future and Other Tenses
17)Imperative and Subjunctive Constructions
18)Carnaval, Samba, Feijoada, and Futebol (Brazilian culture!)
19)Means of Communication (In person, by mail, making phone calls)
20)Traveling to Samba-Land (getting papers in order, hotel reservations, currency, a bit of information about the most popular cities...)
I was mostly looking to learn the language, not the culture, and this book is indeed mostly teaching the language. I liked the bits of information about the culture though in this book and found it interesting.
I definitely recommend this as a book to start off with to anyone serious about learning the language. I went through this while going through Pimsleur lessons for Portuguese and found it to be a great supplement to my learning (In my opinion, Pimsleur goes at quite a slow pace and this book helped me learn more about grammar in a shorter amount of time, as well as expressions, etc, without going at too fast a pace). I recommend it to travelers only if they want to spend some extra time learning a bit more than they absolutely "need".… (mais)