Say It in Portuguese (Brazilian) | 
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Pages: 203
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Dimensions (in): 5 x 3.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0486208095
Dewey Decimal Number: 469.83421
EAN: 9780486208091
ASIN: 0486208095
Publication Date: June 1, 1955
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Product Description
Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the foreign equivalent, and a transliteration that can be read right off. Also includes many supplementary lists, signs, and aids. All words are indexed.
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 Won't have you sounding like a native, but a great phrase book February 10, 2008
I found this book incredibly useful on my recent vacation in Brazil. Most important, the book is small. It's tiny enough that you can fit it into any pocket easily. Secondly, it is extremely well organized. It is divided into sections on topics like "Taxi", "Restaurant", "Bank", each containing phrases that are usually extremely useful, and is also cross-referenced by a comprehensive index. A telling detail: the items of food you might see on a menu in Brazil are in Portuguese alphabetical order, making it very easy to translate whatever food item you are considering.
There are a couple of drawbacks: some of the vocabulary in this book is quaintly out-of-date (for example, there in an entry for "mercurochrome" in the drugstore section, and the automobile section tells you the Portuguese for "Please add water to my battery"), and the pronunciation may be how they read the Brazilian TV news in the 1950s, but is nothing like what people sound like in Rio today. I have a feeling that if you used the pronunciation the book recommends you would generally be understood, but people would think you very funny! However, if you become familiar with contemporary Brazilian pronunciation, it is easy to "translate" the book's suggestions into the way people actually speak. First you would need to find out how Brazilians actually speak, and for this purpose (and generally for anyone with the time to learn a bit more than quick phrases) I would strongly recommend Thomas's "A Grammar of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese".
A great phrase book March 13, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As the title says, it's not a dictionary, just a phrase book. However, the index at the back helps you find the words you need, so it can, in a pinch, serve as a basic dictionary. It's nice and small and easily fits in a pocket. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to friends.
 worthless February 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
this book is about the size of a deck of cards but not as thick. I looked at it for about 2 seconds and have not used it since.
not as bad as they make it sound October 25, 2005
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
One thing you must be aware of before purchasing this is that it is a CONTINENTAL PORTUGUESE book. Hence, the pronunciation is completely different than that of Brasil. I speak both accents and it's basically like a completely different language. You'd be surprised, if you are not already familiar with the differences. Like, "e" is not pronunced at the ends of words, the "r"'s in the beginning of words are not pronounced as "h"'s but more like a throaty trill (not like spanish, a bit raspier). The vowels are pronounced more closed. Also, continental portuguese's grammar can be quite a bit trickier.
So, ignore all those comments about the pronunciation being incorrect. It's just simply different.
If you are looking for Brazilian pronunciations, don't look here.
Short & Sweet September 26, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is great for the phonetics of the language.
It is about the size of a packet of cigarettes.
If you want a book for you pocket with phontics its for you..if you want details and grammar....its not !
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