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| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5475 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 8 07 April 2012 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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Hi everyone, I'm looking for a good comprehensive grammar book for (Brazilian) Portuguese. Any suggestions? Obrigada!
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5073 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 8 08 April 2012 at 12:24am | IP Logged |
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I like Using Portuguese: A Guide to Contemporary Usage and A Grammar of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese - very helpful! Edited by iguanamon on 08 April 2012 at 12:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 8 08 April 2012 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
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Grammar is not copyrighted so you can find it online for free:)
What sort of grammar book do you mean? A reference book or exercises? I can't advice anything but for me the best thing has been to make my own little reference book for the irregular verbs, in my own order. But regardless of whether you want/need to make your own reference book, I really recommend reading through several. That's why I love the stuff online - no need to buy several books, not all of which will even turn out to be good. Another suggestion is to look for something aimed at Spanish speakers, seeing as you already know Latin and some Spanish. You don't need to be shown the differences between English and Portuguese, you mostly need those between Portuguese and Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4802 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 8 08 April 2012 at 2:10am | IP Logged |
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You also need to be shown the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese
spoken in Portugal. Just a few examples: Waiter/waitress: garcom/garconete (BR), empregado/a de mesa (PT) Parking lot: um estacionamento (BR), uma paragem de autocarros (PT) Desk: uma escrivaninha (BR), uma secretaria (PT) Breakfast: pequeno-almoco (BR), café da manha (PT) Toilet: o banheiro (BR), a casa de banho (PT) Very nice: muito legal (BR), muito giros (PT) (I wrote all without accents, cedillas, etc. because the code wouldn't be diplayed as it should.) I wanted to learn Brazilian Portuguese too. There is a book called "Oi, Brasil!" (German/Portuguese), but I couldn't buy it to learn, because my teacher didn't speak German. So I bought "Portugues XXI" by Ana Tavares (written in Portuguese from PT only, audio CD also with PT-accent). Luckily my teacher taught me the differences between vocabulary and pronunciation in PT/BR. The more you learn about the language, the better. Another interesting thing = pineapple: In Portugal they say "ananas", but in Brazil the say "abacaxi", a word taken from Guarani = "avakachi" (same pronunciation). Edited by Mae on 08 April 2012 at 3:04am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4479 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 5 of 8 08 April 2012 at 2:31am | IP Logged |
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Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide
by John Whitlam; Routledge http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415566445/ Modern Portuguese (A Reference grammar) by Mario Perini; Yale University Press http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=97803000915 57 Both of them are really good, the best (and the most up-to-date) grammars of Brazilian Portuguese. They cover both the formal/written and the spoken usage (in Brazil the differences between the two can be pretty significant). Edited by Medulin on 08 April 2012 at 2:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5475 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 6 of 8 08 April 2012 at 5:11am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for all the suggestions of books and different ideas for covering material. I'm hoping to check out all of the links and then I'll see what works out best for me. Thanks again!
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| ElenaPortuguese Diglot Newbie United States AtlanticoBooks.com Joined 4416 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese | Message 7 of 8 17 April 2012 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
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I have a couple more suggestions for Brazilian grammar books:
"Portugues Descomplicado" gives lots of straight-forward examples in a simple grammar hand-book. http://ow.ly/akToA Another very comprehensive grammar book for Brazilian Portuguese is: "Gramatica Ativa 1 Versão Brasileira" which offers exercises and answer keys too. http://ow.ly/akVpT Quick correction for "Mãe"--nice list of differences between PT and BR: [QUOTE=Mae] Breakfast: pequeno-almoco (PT), café da manha (BR) Very nice: muito legal (BR), muito giro (PT) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DonBerto Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4413 days ago 6 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Catalan*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 8 of 8 20 April 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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I think, if you want a thourough Portuguese grammar book to grasp grammar from the root, get "gramática activa". It's got two volumes and I personally think it is great, regardless of wether you are learning portu or brasi :)
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