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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5586 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 1 of 11 25 December 2009 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello everyone!
For those of you studying brazilian portuguese, which materials are most effective and worth purchasing? I am currently using FSI Portuguese Level One I have a "Brazilian Portuguese Phrases for Dummies" book have a pretty in depth phrase book also by lonely planet. Is there anything else I should get? I'm kind of stumped on this because I honestly do not have a clue to any other materials. Help! Jordan 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ford Prefect Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5451 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 11 26 December 2009 at 1:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello there,
As a brazilian I don´t know much about Portuguese learning materials, but I know about sites and other stuff in portuguese, specially brazilian portuguese ;D I think you should try these two sites: www.lingq.com - this one have some learning materials in many languages http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/PesquisaObraForm.j sp this one have lots of stuff(texts/video/audio) in brazilian portuguese you can even find some children´s books in: http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/ResultadoPesquisaO braForm.do? first=50&skip=0&ds_titulo=&co_autor=&no_autor=&co_categoria= 33&pagina=1&select_action=S ubmit&co_midia=2&co_obra=&co_idioma=1&colunaOrdenar=null&ord em=null Hope you find these useful ;D 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hobbema Senior Member United States Joined 5742 days ago 541 posts - 575 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, French, Dutch | Message 3 of 11 26 December 2009 at 3:43am | IP Logged | |||||
I recommend "Portugues Basico para Estrangeiros", by Rejane de Oliveira Slade. I used this with a tutor, it was really good. Self study might be difficult, for checking your answers. But I'm doing the second half alone and (I think) it's working out okay. In any case it mixes a good combination of grammar and culture and stays pretty interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5809 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 4 of 11 26 December 2009 at 4:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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If your native language is English and you already speak Spanish, "Ta Falado" is great.
The lessons specifically contrast the differences between Spanish and Portuguese. Each lesson features a dialog in Portuguese that is translated into both English and Spanish. They can be listened to on the website or downloaded as an mp3. There are also transcripts with the translations available as PDFs. The audio is done in a relaxed enjoyable style. The icing on the cake: its completely free! Its produced by the University of Texas at Austin and is available here: http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/brazilpod/tafalado/ They also have more stuff here: http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/brazilpod FSI has a "From Spanish to Portuguese" course that is really good. Its much drier but has a lot of great information and is also free: http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Portuguese I've also heard that FSI's Portuguese Programmatic Course is great but I haven't used it yet myself. It is also available at the above link. Hope that helps! Edited by ChiaBrain on 26 December 2009 at 4:34am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emiliana Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5115 days ago 81 posts - 98 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 5 of 11 04 December 2010 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Are there any more recommendations about this topic? For example, anyone who can comment about "living language Portuguese" (which is in fact Brazilian Portuguese I think) or "everthing learning Brazilian Portuguese" or anything else?
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 6 of 11 04 December 2010 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I wrote this review of the "Ultimate Portuguese Beginner-Intermediate" book (from Living Language) a bit over a year ago. Hopefully it helps! I think it's an okay book if you're already familiar with Portuguese grammar or that of another closely-related Romance language (Spanish, Italian, possibly French), but its disorganization was quite annoying for me as I worked through the book.
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| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5299 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes | Message 7 of 11 04 December 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Have a look at BrazilianPodClass. The "teacher" is competent, the audio material free (as in "free beer") and paying for the learning guides may well be worth the price. (I have recommended this podcast several times, it is a shame I don't get paid for it ...) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 8 of 11 05 December 2010 at 6:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Off topic, but can someone give me a time estimate to go from basic fluency in Brasil to Portugal?
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