Portuguese in 10 Minutes a Day

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Summary: A GREAT AND FUN SUPPLEMENT
Review: Buy this to supplement the cds or tapes you buy. It's engaging,visual, helpful, fun, and your Portugese friends can benefit as well, by flipping over to the English side of the included cut-out vocabulary cards. Essential educational tool, great price.

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Summary: Fun and Easy
Review: I bought this book because I wanted a good Native Portuguese Language Guide. However once I began using it, I discovered through a native speaker friend of mine that this book was in fact a Brazilian-Portuguese publication. And no where in the book does it state this most important fact. I called the publisher only to be told that there where aware of this fact.

I give this book high marks for organization and content presentation. As a Native Portuguese Language Guide it is a real disappointment.

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Summary: Review of Portuguese in 10 Minutes a Day
Review: I bought this book because I wanted a good Native Portuguese Language Guide. However once I began using it, I discovered through a native speaker friend of mine that this book was in fact a Brazilian-Portuguese publication. And no where in the book does it state this most important fact. I called the publisher only to be told that there where aware of this fact.

I give this book high marks for organization and content presentation. As a Native Portuguese Language Guide it is a real disappointment.

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Summary: A must get for the first time travelor to Brazil
Review: I found the teaching techniques used in is this book very practical. Simple phrases how to order food and ask for directions were helpful for my trip to Rio de Janeiro. The flash cards for verbs, and visual aid stickers for objects made it easy to remember the words. If you are looking for a beginners book or a book for travel I highly recommend this.

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Summary: Fun
Review: It's a good workbook for travelling purposes. It was quite helpful wih pronunciation.

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Summary: Fun and Easy
Review: This book is exellent for the absolute beginner. It is well organized, and gives the learner just the right information to get by in Portuguese. The vocabulary stickers make learning new words a snap, as you are constantly reminded of them as you go about your day. This book also includes very helpful pronounciation reminders above all the words, which speeds the process as well. Finally, the cut-out dining guides, flash cards, and important phrases are the ultimate companions to the traveler. A must have for those with little time to spare.

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Summary: Very enjoyable, simple, and effective!!
Review: This book is great for learning basic phrases and building vocabulary. Especially nice are the following points 1) the already made flash cards and stickers were a big help...I laminated the flash cards and me and my wife quized each other all the time. They were convenient, I carried them everywhere. 2) I did carry the cut out language map doohickey it provides and used it upon first arriving in Brazil 3)the phonectic pronunciation typed above or below the words was a great help not found in most other publications. I highley recommend!

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Summary: Great, Helpful good for beginning learners
Review: This was a great book for Brazilian Portuguese. Very well organized with some lessons, stickers to stick to stuff(removable of course) to learn vocab. I've already studied Spanish for 5 years, and knowing what it's like to learn another Romance language, I have found this format quite easy and simple to use, especially for basic conversation or supplementary use. I would recommend this book and format to others, even the other languages offered. Pictures were very helpful, as well as a good layout.

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Summary: Some disappointment
Review: While this is a useful, fun book to get a basic handle on Brazilian Portuguese, it does have a major failing in its guide to pronunciation of the language. The book while good at phonetically spelling out the words fails to indicate on what syllable the stress should be placed. It does indicate that accent marks indicate stress placement, but if the word lacks them, just where should the stress (what syallable) be when saying the word? For example, the word "onde" (where). It does not tell you if its OHN-jee or ohn-JEE. You really need to use a Portuguese grammar manual or audio tapes/CDs to tell you how to correctly pronounce the words. For the record, the stress in this case is on the OHN. The text just has "ohn-jee."
This should be corrected in the next edition to better teach the Brazilian variation of Portuguese.

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Summary: Some disappointment
Review: While this is a useful, fun book to get a basic handle on Brazilian Portuguese, it does have a major failing in its guide to pronunciation of the language. The book while good at phonetically spelling out the words fails to indicate on what syllable the stress should be placed. It does indicate that accent marks indicate stress placement, but if the word lacks them, just where should the stress (what syallable) be when saying the word? For example, the word "onde" (where). It does not tell you if its OHN-jee or ohn-JEE. You really need to use a Portuguese grammar manual or audio tapes/CDs to tell you how to correctly pronounce the words. For the record, the stress in this case is on the OHN. The text just has "ohn-jee."
This should be corrected in the next edition to better teach the Brazilian variation of Portuguese.