Dimensions
130 x 199 x 16mm
A Complete Course For Beginners
This is a complete course in understanding, speaking and writing Portuguese. If you have never learnt Portuguese before, or if your Portuguese needs brushing up, 'Teach Yourself Portuguese' is for you. It is a practical course that is both fun and easy to work through. It explains everything clearly along the way and gives you plenty of opportunities to practise what you have learnt. The course structure means that you can work at your own pace, arranging your learning to suit your needs.
Based on the Council of Europe's Threshold guidelines on language learning, the course contains:
- a range of graded units of dialogues, culture notes, grammar and exercises
- a step-by-step guide to pronouncing Portuguese
- the 1500 words most frequently used in Portuguese
- a Portuguese-English vocabulary
- tables of regular and irregular verbs
- indices to the grammar, problem words, and themes
- special reference to Brazilian Portuguese forms.
By the end of the course you'll be able to take a fully active part in the everyday life and culture of modern Portugal and Brazil. Have fun!
Also available in a book/cassette pack.