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My name is Rodrigo and I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I can communicate in six languages and I have a degree in Social Communication. As a Portuguese teacher for foreigners, working with people from around the world, I have identified and made it easy to learn the most common Brazilian Portuguese expressions.

What is the hardest challenge you’ve faced as a student of the Portuguese language? You can work hard on your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, but being able to communicate naturally isn’t easy. In fact, the toughest part of learning Portuguese is knowing how to speak like a native.

Learn Conversational Brazilian Portuguese is an audio course for beginners or for anyone who struggles with becoming fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. The focus in this course is to practice speaking conversational Brazilian Portuguese from the very first lesson. The course is divided into 30 lessons, six review lessons, and three listening comprehension lessons. Each lesson contains useful everyday phrases related to a specific topic.

In this 25-lesson series, you'll learn vital European Portuguese phrases in each lesson that will help prepare you for an upcoming trip.

This 3-in-1 Audiobook bundle is a fast and easy introduction to Portuguese for Absolute Beginners. Instead of just reading about Portuguese, you learn through everyday conversations between native speakers. In each lesson, you hear a practical dialogue. Then, our teachers translate and explain every word—and you understand it all within minutes.

The year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates. The expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spain's Atlantic fleet, drive the Spanish out of Portugal, put the claimant Dom Antonio of Aviz on the throne, and seize the Azores. But from the time the English fleet, led by Drake and Norreys, reaches Plymouth, things start to go wrong. Christoval Alvarez, sent to carry out two missions by Walsingham, has a more important private plan in mind.

From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the listener to a world that is at once fanciful and real.

This book takes a different approach to learning. It deals with human motivation and creating the right mind-set that will drive you rapidly to your language learning goal. It is presented in simple language that most anyone can easily understand and apply. It was written for the first-time foreign language learner looking forward to a fulfilling experience and for those who have already engaged in learning but have lost their motivation and are ready to give up.

Anchored by the voice of its sweet and defiant narrator, Bad Habit casts a trans woman’s trying youth as a heartfelt odyssey. Raised in an animated yet impoverished blue-collar neighborhood, Alana S. Portero’s protagonist struggles to find her place. As the city around her changes–the heroin epidemic that ravages Madrid through the '80s and '90s, rallying calls of worker solidarity and the pulsing beat of the city's night scene– she becomes increasingly detached from the world and, most crucially, herself.

This dictionary is organized in sets of proverbs, where the English proverb is followed by one or more Portuguese equivalent proverbs. Proverbs included in this collection come from monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual collections, some as old as the 16th century, and it should be accepted that some of them are contradictory, discriminatory, blasphemous, or scurrilous, and as such, they reflect past attitudes and express the idiosyncrasies of a people and their culture through time and history.

My name is Rodrigo. I’m from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and I’m a Brazilian Portuguese teacher for foreigners. I like to offer various methods for people learning Portuguese, and I believe that through short stories learning is not only fun, but also effective.

By the mid-15th century, the Byzantine Empire had collapsed and the various Crusades that had taken place in the region had largely disrupted the overland routes of the Silk Road and trade. Compounding the difficulties of trade was the rise of the Ottoman Empire in place of the Byzantines and the outbreak of the Black Death in Europe. This audiobook chronicles the early efforts by the Portuguese that helped initiate the Age of Exploration, and the ramifications the colonization had across the world.

Learn the most important words and phrases for everyday situations and travelling with the audio-learning course "Portuguese for you". More than 1300 words and phrases are arranged by topic, summarised in chapters and is authentic in conveying the most important basics of the language. Thus you can concentrate on learning words and phrases from certain topics such as "basics", "travel", "bank" or "means of communication". With this vocabulary you will be able to place your order in Portuguese in a restaurant, ask directions in a foreign city or also ask for medical assistance.

My name is Rodrigo, and I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I can communicate in six languages, and I have a degree in Social Communication. As a Portuguese teacher for foreigners, working with people from around the world, I have identified and made it easy to learn the most common Brazilian Portuguese regular verbs. In this book, you will learn how to conjugate, use, and pronounce these verbs.

If you speak Portuguese, focus your English learning on the most frequently used English idioms. This book provides the 100 English idioms you need to get around when traveling or interacting with English speakers.

A woman's body is found in a river just outside of Lisbon. Inspectors Isabel Reis and Aleksandr Voronov identify the murder victim as Marta Nunes—a youth centre worker who, like Isabel, classifies as Gifted. Born with special abilities, the Gifted are often looked at with a certain level of suspicion. In the search for her killer, Reis digs into Marta's past. She soon discovers that she is connected to a number of missing women. All young, all telepathic Gifted, all vanished off the face of the earth.

Before you take that trip to Brazil, get a solid foundation of Portuguese first! Start speaking Portuguese in minutes and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Absolute Beginner Portuguese. Our native Portuguese hosts break down all the sentences, grammar, and more in a simple, easily understandable way!

This is Innovative Language Learning. Go to InnovativeLanguage.com/audiobooks to get the lesson notes for this course, and sign up for your FREE lifetime account. This Audiobook will take you through the basics of Portuguese with Basic Bootcamp, All About, and Pronunciation lessons. The five Basic Bootcamp lessons each center on a practical, real-life conversation. In the 15 All About lessons, you’ll learn all about Portuguese and Brazil.

Why do most beginners struggle to speak real authentic Portuguese? The answer is simple. While most language programs focus on reading or listening to the language, most of us learn best by doing. Consequently, when it comes time to speak, those who use those programs tend to struggle. Can Do Portuguese is different. You learn to speak Portuguese by doing With the Can Do Portuguese Audiobook, you'll be able to DO everyday tasks in Portuguese, such as introduce yourself, talk about the weather, shop for groceries, and much, much more.

This book is a new way to master the everyday vocabulary and verbs in context in the Portuguese language through short stories. If you have difficulties in expressing yourself in Portuguese for lack of vocabulary as well as with conjugating your verbs, this book is for you! It is an innovative method of learning and practicing vocabulary and verbs commonly used in Portuguese. It is a practical and effective way to learn Portuguese.