Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 (Colloquial Series) - Softcover

Simoes Osborne, Esmenia; McIntyre, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415430976 ISBN 13: 9780415430975

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Do you know Brazilian Portuguese already and want to go a stage further? If you’re planning a visit to Brazil, need to brush up your Brazilian Portuguese for work, or are simply doing a course, Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills.

Key features of Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 include:

• revision material to help consolidate and build up your basics
• a wide range of contemporary authentic documents
• lots of spoken and written exercises in each unit
• highlighted key structures and phrases, a grammar reference and detailed answer keys
• a broad range of everyday situations, focusing on Brazil
• supplementary exercises and Brazilian Portuguese language web-links at www.routledge.com/languages.

Audio material is available to purchase on CD or in MP3 format to accompany Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2. Recorded by native speakers, this material includes scripted dialogues, texts and extracts from authentic interviews as well as interactive exercises, and will help you perfect your pronunciation and listening skills.

About this title

Synopsis:

Do you know Brazilian Portuguese already and want to go a stage further? If you're planning a visit to Brazil, need to brush up your Brazilian Portuguese for work, or are simply doing a course, "Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2" is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills. "Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2" is designed to help those involved in self-study; structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Brazilian Portuguese, it has also been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your grasp of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and vocabulary.Key features of "Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2" include: revision; material to help consolidate and build up your basics; a wide range of contemporary authentic documents; lots of spoken and written exercises in each unit; highlighted key structures and phrases, a Grammar reference and detailed answer keys; and, a broad range of everyday situations, focusing on Brazil. Audio material is available on two 60-minutes CDs to accompany "Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2".

Recorded by native speakers, this material includes scripted dialogues, texts and extracts from authentic interviews as well as interactive exercises, and will help you perfect your pronunciation and listening skills.

About the Author:

Barbara McIntyre has variously been a librarian, tutor in Portuguese, Spanish, and French at St. Andrews and author. Esmenia Osborne is Brazilian. She has taught Portuguese for over 30 years and is currently working as a free-lance interpreter and translator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0415430976
• ISBN 13: 9780415430975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248