Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Ferreira, Fernanda L.

Title The everything learning Brazilian Portuguese book : speak, write and understand Portuguese in no time / Fernanda L. Ferreira.

Imprint Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, ©2007.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  469.83 BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE    Check Shelf
Description x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio CD (4 3/4 in.).
Series Everything series
Everything series.
Note Includes index.
Summary An introduction to Brazilian Portugese covers the history of the language, pronuniciation, grammar, vocabulary, Brazilian culture, and traveling in Brazil.
Contents 1. Introducing the Portuguese Language -- Why Learn Portuguese? -- Portuguese: A Romance Language -- Similarities to Spanish -- European Portuguese Versus Brazilian Portuguese -- Tips on Learning Portuguese -- Recognizing What You Already Know -- 2. Sounds of Portuguese -- Portuguese Alphabet -- Accent Marks -- Closer Look at the Portuguese Consonants -- Stress Pattern in Portuguese -- Oral and Nasal Vowels -- Typing in Portuguese -- 3. Beginning Conversation -- Greetings -- Talking on the Phone -- Quick Introductions -- Exercise: What to Say? -- Saying Goodbye -- Other Vocabulary You May Need -- 3. Nouns, Articles, and Contractions -- Nouns: Persons, Places, and Things -- Practicing with Gender -- From Nouns to Pronouns -- Definite and Indefinite Articles -- Demonstratives -- Common Contractions -- 5. Who Are You? Introducing Ser -- Expressing Identity: Ser -- Place of Origin -- Characteristics -- Occupations -- Personal Relationships -- Numbers and Ser -- 6. How Are You? Introducing Estar -- States of Being: Estar -- Physical States -- Mental States -- Location -- Estar in the Present Progressive Tense -- Ser or Estar? -- Agreement Rules -- Plurals in Nouns and Adjectives -- 7. Describing People and Things in Portuguese -- From Nouns to Adjectives -- Order of Modifiers -- Making Comparisons -- Superlatives: The Best of the Best -- Ownership and Possession -- 8. Vocabulary of Numbers -- Cardinal Numbers -- Ordinal Numbers -- Days of the Week -- Talking about Time -- Months and Seasons -- Practice with Numbers -- 9. First Conjugation Verbs -- Regular -AR Verbs -- Verbs with Prepositions -- Vocabulary: Going Places -- Vocabulary: Routine Activities -- 10. Second Conjugation and Beyond -- Regular -ER and -IR Verbs -- Special -IR Verbs -- Exercise: Regular and Special Verbs -- To Go and To Come: Ir and Vir -- To Have: Ter -- Vocabulary: Family Relations -- 11. Important Verbs to Know -- To Be or To Exist: Haver -- To Make or To Do: Fazer -- Expressions with Fazer -- To Know: Saber and Conhecer -- More Special Verbs -- 12. Verb Tenses: an Overview -- Present Tense -- Preterite Tense -- Imperfect Tense -- Preterite Versus the Imperfect -- Future Tenses -- Conditional Tense -- Practice with the Future and Conditional Tenses -- 13. More Verbs -- Using Two Verbs Together -- Past Participles -- Passive Voice -- Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs -- Reflexive Verbs with Prepositions -- Practice with Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs -- 14. Negative Words and Constructions -- How to Say No -- Two Negatives Make a Negative -- Common Negative Expressions -- Practice with Negatives -- Positive Versus Negative -- 15. Questions and Exclamations -- How to Ask Questions -- Interrogative Words -- Question Tags -- Exclamations -- 16. Future and Other Tenses -- Present Versus the Future or the Preterite -- Personal Infinitive -- Impersonal Assertions -- Discussing the Weather -- Vocabulary of Clothes -- 17. Imperative and Subjunctive Constructions -- Imperative Constructions -- Introducing the Subjunctive -- Past Subjunctive -- Future Subjunctive -- Indicative or Subjunctive? -- Practice with the Subjunctive Forms -- Expression with the Verb Dar -- 18. Carnaval, Samba, Feijoada, and Futebol -- Brazilian Carnaval -- Music of Brazil -- Futebol (Soccer) in Brazil: Five-Time World Champions -- Culinary Expressions -- What's on Brazilian TV? -- Brazilian Cinema -- Cultural Review: What's the Word? -- 19. Means of Communication -- In Person -- Communication by Mail -- Making Phone Calls -- Vocabulary: Ficar, Tornar-se, Fazer-se (to Become) -- More Vocabulary: Expressions with Estar com and Ter -- Communication Practice -- 20. Travelling to Samba-Land -- Getting Your Papers in Order -- Hotel Reservations -- Getting Real -- Where to Go? -- Brasilia: The Modern Capital City -- Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo: Big Metropoles -- Northeast of Brazil: Culture and Tradition -- Florianopolis and Other Southern Belles -- Survival Phrases: Don't Leave Home Without Them -- "Travel to Brazil" Quiz -- Appendix A. English-to-Portuguese Glossary -- Appendix B. Portuguese-to-English Glossary -- Appendix C. Answer Key.
Subject Portuguese language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
Portuguese language -- Brazil -- Spoken Portuguese.
Portuguese language. (OCoLC)fst01072441
Portuguese language -- Spoken Portuguese. (OCoLC)fst01072541
Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
Genre/Form Textbooks. (OCoLC)fst01423863
Textbooks -- for English speakers. (OCoLC)fst01423865
Textbooks.
ISBN 9781598692778 (pbk.)
1598692771 (pbk.)
Standard No. 045079902770
-->
Add a Review