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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.

Learning Portuguese is a tough challenge, no doubt about it. The rich vocabulary and complex grammar can be discouraging when you are taking your first steps into the learning process. The goal of this book is to teach Portuguese in the most effective way possible. This audiobook adopts a semi-communicative method: the storytelling approach. Telling stories is an effective educational tool because learners become engaged with the narrative and, therefore, remember the story and vocabulary associated with it, effortlessly, as well as making it easier to recognize sentence patterns.

Newly promoted to captain, William Brewer is tasked to serve and defend British interests in the waters off Brazil. But who defines what constitutes Britain’s Interests? Portugal’s former colony is declaring independence, and an independent Brazil might better serve Britain’s economic development. King George, however, chooses to support Portugal’s monarch and his efforts to retain the colony. At the very least, Portugal’s king wants to retrieve the royal treasury that was sent to Brazil for safekeeping during the Napoleonic wars.

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.

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

Improve your Portuguese skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining Brazilian Portuguese short stories! The best part of learning a new language is experiencing the culture and diving into activities that will enrich your life and vocabulary. The best way to learn a new language is by reading, and in this Portuguese book, you will find yourself listening to each captivating story that will engage your mind and help you improve your Portuguese.

By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of Portuguese and English a few times, you will pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue but burned deeply into your long-term memory - in next to no time.

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.

Portuguese can be challenging for beginners, but not with this audiobook. All the Portuguese short stories in this audiobook are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, and new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so that you won't get overwhelmed. Toward the end of this book, you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for beginners.

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.

A duck arrived from Portugal. Some people said she came from Spain, but that doesn't really matter. She was called the Portuguese; she laid eggs, and was killed and dressed and cooked; that's the story of her life. But all the ducklings that were hatched from her eggs were also called Portuguese, and there's some distinction in that. At last there was only one left of her whole family in the duck yard - a yard to which the hens also had access, and where the cock strutted about with endless arrogance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Was Born in the Forest encapsulates the freedom struggle of Africans brought to the Americas in the bowels of slave ships from Congo, Angola, and other parts of Central Africa. In the seventeenth century, many defied the odds by escaping and establishing Afrocentric communities in the mountains in Brazil. Palmares, the most notable among them, existed from 1605 to 1694.

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.

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.

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 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.