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Master essential language skills to build your confidence in basic Portuguese
Whether you are learning on your own with a textbook or taking a beginning class, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will support your study and build your confidence in your new language. Each bite-sized lesson of this proven guide focuses on essential vocabulary and key grammar concepts, illustrated with clear examples. You will then learn to communicate in authentic Portuguese: how to meet new people,engage in small talk, express ideas, and more.
More than 180 entertaining exercises will help you practice your new skills. And this second edition is also accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study.
Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will help you master:
.High-frequency vocabulary
.Ser vs. estar, saber vs. conhecer, ter and its uses
.Sets of flashcards for all the vocabulary lists
.Superlatives and comparisons: tão and tanto
.Continental Portuguese and Brazilian variants
.Verb tenses, sentence structure, and more
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Subject pronouns . Family
2
Ser (to be) . Professions
3
Estar (to be) . Moods / emotions
4 Regular
-ar verbs: present tense . Hobbies and leisure
5 Regular
-er verbs: present tense . Meals and menus
6 Irregular verbs, part 1: present tense . The weather
7 Irregular verbs, part 2: present tense . Politics
8 Regular
-ir verbs: present tense . Personality
9 Irregular
-ir verbs: present tense . Accidents / incidents
10
-ir verbs with spelling changes . Transport
11
Ter (to have) and its uses . Animals
12
Haver (to have, to be) and its uses . The classroom
13 Reflexive verbs . Daily routine
14
Ir (to go) + infinitive to express the future . Days and months
15
Saber vs.
conhecer . The city center
16 Definite article: the . The restaurant
17 Indefinite articles: a / an / some . The hotel
18 Nouns . Around the house
19 Describing things . Common adjectives
20 Colors . Clothing
21 Demonstratives: this and that . Literature and cinema
22 Nonchanging demonstratives . Materials
23 Possessives, part 1: my / your / our . Technology
24 Possessives, part 2: his / her / their . Education
25 Relative pronouns: that / which / who / whom / where . At the beach
26 Making comparisons: more (than) / less (than) . Describing people
27 Superlatives . Sports
28 Comparisons:
tão and
tanto . The countryside
29 Numbers . Measurements
30 Telling the time
31 Prepositions, part 1: movement . Shops
32 Prepositions, part 2: place . Furniture
33 Prepositions, part 3: time . Expressions of time
34 Prepositions + verbs / verbs + prepositions . Eating and drinking
35 Com + pronouns . Current events
36 Prepositions + pronouns . The airport
37
Por . Idioms with
por 38
Para . Idioms with
para 39 Adverbs . Geography and the world
40 Negatives . School subjects
41 Interrogatives, part 1: how / who / when / where / what . Vacations
42 Interrogatives, part 2: how much / how many / which (what) . Crime
43 Direct-object pronouns . Polite expressions
44 Indirect-object pronouns . The body
45 Position of pronouns: When do they move? . Illness
46 Algum and nenhum . The media
47 Todo and outro . The kitchen
48 Muito, pouco, and tanto . Entertainment
49
Alguém, ninguém, tudo, and
nada . Languages and nationalities
50 Quantities and packages . The supermarket
English-Portuguese glossary
Answer key
About the author
Sue Tyson - Wardis a language consultant and teacher and writer.
