Colloquial Portuguese
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Colloquial Portuguese

The Complete Course for Beginners

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Colloquial Portuguese

The Complete Course for Beginners

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Colloquial Portuguese: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Portuguese as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Portuguese in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Portuguese is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout.

Key features include:



  • A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills



  • Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar



  • An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises



  • Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations



  • Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Portugal



  • An overview of the sounds of Portuguese

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Portuguese is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Portuguese.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
9781317305071
Edition
2
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

1 Olá, tudo bem?

Hello, how are you?
In this lesson you will learn about:
• greetings, introductions, farewells
• ordering something to eat and drink
• using the present indicative tense of ser (to be)
• nationalities
• subject pronouns
• the definite and indefinite articles
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Dialogue 1 (Audio 1: 1)
Boa noite, como está?

A crowd has gathered in the foyer of the Cinema Tropical in Lisbon to see the film Os Três Mosqueteiros (The Three Musketeers). Some of the crowd greet each other
ALICE: Boa noite, como está?
ANTÓNIO: Boa noite, estou bem obrigado, e você?
ALICE: Estou bem, obrigada1
LUISA: Faz favor, como se chama?
ISABEL: Chamo-me Isabel, e você?
LUISA: Chamo-me Luisa, muito prazer.
JORGE: Olá pá!
JOSÉ: Olá, estás bom?
JORGE: Óptimo!2
CARLOS: (from Brazil) Oi3, Alice, tudo bem?
ALICE: Ora viva Carlos, como vai?
CARLOS: Muito bem, obrigado.
ALICE: Good evening, how are you?
ANTÓNIO: Good evening, I’m fine thanks, and you?
ALICE: I’m well, thank you.
LUISA: Excuse me, what’s your name?
ISABEL: My name is Isabel, what’s yours?
LUISA: My name is Luisa, pleased to meet you.
JORGE: Hi there, mate!
JOSÉ: Hi, how’s things?
JORGE: Great!
CARLOS: (from Brazil) Hi, Alice, everything OK?
ALICE: Hi there Carlos, how’s it going?
CARLOS: Very well, thanks.
Exercise 1
If you have the recordings, listen again to the dialogues. Each time you hear the words or phrases listed in the chart below, tick them off. (If you don’t have the recordings, re-read the dialogues, then cover the English and try writing the English translations, and vice versa.)
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Exercise 2
Translate the following into English then back into Portuguese. (Use the dialogues on pages 7–8 as a guide.)
A: Faz favor, como se chama?
B: Chamo-me Jorge, e você, como se chama?
A: Chamo-me Luisa. Muito prazer.
A: Boa noite, como está?
B: Estou muito bem obrig...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. A guide to pronunciation
  8. 1 Olá, tudo bem?
  9. 2 Gosto de viajar
  10. 3Parabéns!
  11. 4 Desculpe!
  12. 5Posso ver …?
  13. 6Uma ida para Lisboa
  14. 7Não me sinto bem
  15. 8Não desligue …
  16. 9O fim de semana
  17. 10 Moro num apartamento
  18. 11 Encontramo-nos mais tarde?
  19. 12 Exmo. Senhor …
  20. 13 A Internet
  21. Reference grammar
  22. Key to exercises
  23. Portuguese–English glossary
  24. English–Portuguese glossary
  25. Topic index
  26. Grammatical index