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Summary: Portuguese Now
Review: Do yourself a favor and save your money. I found this to be the worst learning tool I have ever seen. The CD basically comes with 2 or 3 stories that you can listen to and practice repeating. The only thing I found useful was going through the correct pronunciation of the alphabet. All the important items in learning a language are in text only format, so you'd be better off buying a book
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Summary: Portuguese Now
Review: Do yourself a favor and save your money. I found this to be the worst learning tool I have ever seen. The CD basically comes with 2 or 3 stories that you can listen to and practice repeating. The only thing I found useful was going through the correct pronunciation of the alphabet. All the important items in learning a language are in text only format, so you'd be better off buying a book
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Summary: This is more oriented to Brazilean Portugeuse
Review: For anyone planning a trip to Brazil, this is a good program to get. However, for anyone interested in learning continental Portugeuse (i.e. European dialect) this module is not as useful. For a non-native speaker, the Brazilean dialect often seems faster and more melodic than the language spoken in Portugal. The continental language is often slower and more pronounced, or annunciated. Overall, the package is good with useful interactive activities. However, the package should be labelled "Brazilean Portuguese".
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Summary: This is more oriented to Brazilean Portugeuse
Review: For anyone planning a trip to Brazil, this is a good program to get. However, for anyone interested in learning continental Portugeuse (i.e. European dialect) this module is not as useful. For a non-native speaker, the Brazilean dialect often seems faster and more melodic than the language spoken in Portugal. The continental language is often slower and more pronounced, or annunciated. Overall, the package is good with useful interactive activities. However, the package should be labelled "Brazilean Portuguese".
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Summary: It was scary.
Review: I got this CD before I had learned anything in Portugese, not even hello. It was scary. Total immersion was just not going to cut it for the complete novice. I got the Living Language book/cassette combo, went through that, THEN this CD became useful. The CD is overall a pretty nice set-up. It has video, pictures, read along, and you can even record your own voice (which just confirmed how much practice I need). There are a few long passages you can listen to while watching the pictures roll by and/or while reading the words. The passages are interesting to, about The samba, and Rio de Janiero. Not your typical "Oi, tudo bem? This is still a beginners CD, but once you have finished a beginners book/cassette, it will make a world of difference, and the immersion won't be quite as scary.
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Summary: It was scary.
Review: I got this CD before I had learned anything in Portugese, not even hello. It was scary. Total immersion was just not going to cut it for the complete novice. I got the Living Language book/cassette combo, went through that, THEN this CD became useful. The CD is overall a pretty nice set-up. It has video, pictures, read along, and you can even record your own voice (which just confirmed how much practice I need). There are a few long passages you can listen to while watching the pictures roll by and/or while reading the words. The passages are interesting to, about The samba, and Rio de Janiero. Not your typical "Oi, tudo bem? This is still a beginners CD, but once you have finished a beginners book/cassette, it will make a world of difference, and the immersion won't be quite as scary.
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Summary: good product, still waiting for a good grammar
Review: I was utterly impressed with this product. What I like the most is the easy-to-read pronounciation meter with friendly indications like "Keep trying". Just imagine: you listen, you repeat, you compare, you learn. Excellent video, excelent history about the samba. Beautiful talking alphabet. Caveats: Grammar doesn't include pronounciation rules. Even though the talking alphabet shows you the different sounds for a given letter, nowhere are explained the rules behind it. Grammar doesn't include full verb conjugations !
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Summary: good product, still waiting for a good grammar
Review: I was utterly impressed with this product. What I like the most is the easy-to-read pronounciation meter with friendly indications like "Keep trying". Just imagine: you listen, you repeat, you compare, you learn. Excellent video, excelent history about the samba. Beautiful talking alphabet. Caveats: Grammar doesn't include pronounciation rules. Even though the talking alphabet shows you the different sounds for a given letter, nowhere are explained the rules behind it. Grammar doesn't include full verb conjugations !
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Summary: Challenging for Beginers
Review: I'm a beginer. I was overwhelmed by the vast amount of sentences in Portuguese. It was hard to get in the program. I could not have fun. I was frustrated. But as I progress in grammar and vocabulary using other book, everything began to make sense.
This is a good program because you'll know right pronounciation from every sentenses in this program. The only problem is you can't learn grammer effectively because it provides little information on grammer.
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Summary: Challenging for Beginers
Review: I'm a beginer. I was overwhelmed by the vast amount of sentences in Portuguese. It was hard to get in the program. I could not have fun. I was frustrated. But as I progress in grammar and vocabulary using other book, everything began to make sense.
This is a good program because you'll know right pronounciation from every sentenses in this program. The only problem is you can't learn grammer effectively because it provides little information on grammer.
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