Karen Keller

Portuguese Phrases For Dummies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Are you thinking about traveling, studying, or working in Portugal or Brazil, but you don t know any Portuguese? Want to improve your conversation skills with the Portuguese speaking people in your life? Portuguese Phrases for Dummies is the perfect diving board for anyone looking to communicate and even become fluent in the language.

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Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips

Speak Portuguese -- instantly!

Traveling to Brazil or Portugal but don't know Portuguese? Need to kick up your conversation skills? This handy phrasebook will jump-start your comprehension and have you speaking basic Brazilian Portuguese in no time.

Discover how to
Get directions, shop, and eat out
Talk numbers, dates, times, and money
Chat about family and work
Discuss sports and the weather
Deal with problems and emergencies

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 108mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 155g
• ISBN-13: 9780470037508
• ISBN-10: 0470037504
• Artikelnr.: 22337800

Autorenporträt

Karen Keller is a journalist who lived and worked in São Paulo, Brazil, for three years. Before moving to Brazil, the California native taught Spanish at a New York City-based foreign-language-education Web site. Keller is also a published travel-guide writer. She currently lives in New Jersey, where she is a local newspaper reporter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. About This Book. Conventions Used in This Book. Foolish
Assumptions. Icons Used in This Book. Where to Go from Here. Chapter 1: Say
It How? Speaking Portuguese. Chapter 2: Grammar on a Diet: Just the Basics.
Chapter 3: Numerical Gumbo: Counting of All Kinds. Chapter 4: Making New
Friends and Enjoying Small Talk. Chapter 5: Enjoying a Drink and a Snack
(or Meal!). Chapter 6: Shop 'Til You Drop. Chapter 7: Making Leisure a Top
Priority. Chapter 8: When You Gotta Work. Chapter 9: I Get Around:
Transportation. Chapter 10: Finding a Place to Lay Your Weary Head. Chapter
11: Dealing with Emergencies. Chapter 12: Ten Favorite Brazilian Portuguese
Expressions. Chapter 13: Ten Phrases That Make You Index.