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Brazilian Portuguese (Lonely Planet Phrasebook) by: Marcia Monje de Castro List Price: £4.99 City Travel Guides Price: £4.49 You Save: £0.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 469 EAN: 9781740597319 ISBN: 1740597311 Label: Lonely Planet Publications Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 260 Publication Date: January 01, 2008 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Studio: Lonely Planet Publications Sales Rank: 6590 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Deeply flawedAt first sight, a useful book despite a dictionary at the back that contains some glaring omissions of basic words such as 'from' and 'please', as well as other useful words such as 'sting'. Its culinary reader is threadbare too, with plenty of omissions - annoying when tried to decipher a menu. But the real flaw is in the phonetic spellings of the Portuguese words. The author uses 'ng' to indicate the nasal vowels that characterise Brazilian Portuguese, but this only works about half the time. The rest of the time you're just mispronouncing the word. The biggest omission of all, though, is as follows. In Brazilian Portuguese, when a 't' is followed by an 'e' or an 'i', this means the 't' is pronounced like the 'j' ... Read More: Rating:  - Going to Brazil? Buy this and make it your companion!We were lucky enough to visit Brazil and found this book and absouloutley invaluable guide! The phrasebook was dead useful, and when we managed to lose it after a boozy night on the town it felt like our we'd lost our bestest companion. Good book, great country! Buy the book, visit the country! Rating: - Great This book is great ..it also tells you the history of brazil like the european settlers and Africans as well and also the Nigerian language that influenced it it's great stuff ... you won't be dissapointed ...i sure wasnt Rating: - Useful little number!Bought this book for my mother in law to take to Rio with her. She is studying portugease at present but it nervous to use it in sentences and out of the classroom, without her dictionery. Needless to say short conversations can take an age when you have to look up each word. I hope this book will give her the confidence she needs to communicate when travelling alone in Brazil - Very handy!! |
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