Teach Yourself Portuguese: A Complete Course for Beginners

✍ Scribed by Manuel Cook

• Publisher: Teach Yourself
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a complete course in understanding, speaking and writing Portuguese. It is aimed at both beginners, and those who would like to brush up on the language. The text is structured into a practical course that aims to be both fun and easy to work through. Each point is explained clearly, and the reader is provided with plenty of opportunities to practice what they have learnt. The course can be worked through at any pace, and readers can arrange learning to suit their needs. Based on the Council of Europe's Threshold guidelines on language learning, the course contains: graded units of dialogue, culture notes, grammar and exercises; a pronunciation guide; the 1500 words most frequently used in Portuguese; a Portuguese-English vocabulary; tables of regular and irregular verbs; indexes to the grammar, problem words and themes; and special reference is given to Brazilian Portuguese forms.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 7
Introduction
......Page 9
Pronunciation
......Page 12
Vowel Sounds
......Page 13
Nasal Vowel Sounds
......Page 16
Unit 01: Where is the Exit?
......Page 24
Unit 02: Have you got a vacant Room?
......Page 40
Unit 03: Pleased to meet you!
......Page 60
Unit 04: How much is a kilo of cheese?......Page 80
Unit 05: I arrived last Wednesday......Page 98
Unit 06: I shall come tomorrow
......Page 116
Unit 07: I hope that you may be able to book me in for today......Page 136
Unit 08: I should like to try this dish
......Page 152
Unit 09: I wish you were here!
......Page 168
Unit 10: On our return, I shall open a bank account
......Page 184
Key to the Exercises......Page 197
Appendix A: Regular Verbs
......Page 203
Appendix B: Special Verbs
......Page 205
Portuguese-English Vocabulary
......Page 215
Index to Grammar and Problem Words
......Page 231
List of Topics
......Page 233

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Португальский язык;