Portuguese: An Essential Grammar (Essential Grammar)

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Summary: Concise and yet complete
Review: This book is an excellent tool for intermediate learners. It covers both European and Brazilian Portuguese. But there are two drawbacks: 1) The book should have listed the alphabets and their pronunciations (e.g. how to pronounce the foreign-borrowed letter 'k' in Portuguese.) 2) Chapter seven: 'verbs': this chapter should be the core of this book. The authors, however, do not give the English meanings of the irregular verbs they list in this chapter. They provide the English tranlations of everything but the irregular verbs presented in chapter seven. This is weird. Overall, this book is highly recommended for intermediate learners to review and grasp a solid understanding to the verbs and grammars of the language.