Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil

Do you know Brazilian Portuguese already and want to go a stage further? If you’re planning a visit to Brazil, need to brush up your Brazilian Portuguese for work, or are simply doing a course, Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills.

Key features of Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2 include:

●revision material to help consolidate and build up your basics
●a wide range of contemporary authentic documents
●lots of spoken and written exercises in each unit
●highlighted key structures and phrases, a grammar reference and detailed answer keys
●a broad range of everyday situations, focusing on Brazil
●supplementary exercises and Brazilian Portuguese language web-links at www.routledge.com/languages.

Audio material is available to purchase on CD or in MP3 format to accompany Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil 2. Recorded by native speakers, this material includes scripted dialogues, texts and extracts from authentic interviews as well as interactive exercises, and will help you perfect your pronunciation and listening skills.

Barbara McIntyre has variously been a librarian, tutor in Portuguese, Spanish, and French at St. Andrews and author. Esmenia Osborne is Brazilian. She has taught Portuguese for over 30 years and is currently working as a free-lance interpreter and translator.