The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Practice Book
The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Practice Book

Author: Fernanda Ferreira

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1440528764

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More than 200 million people worldwide speak the beautiful and alluring language of Brazilian Portuguese. Tapped as a language with the highest possibility for growth internationally, beginners everywhere have begun to study Portuguese, making it one of the most popular languages in the world! This book is the ideal workbook if you're looking to learn the basics of the language, whether you're a beginner or intermediate student. Featuring interactive exercises and lessons that help you: Study nouns, conjugate verbs, and perfect pronunciations Learn common words and phrases Have a conversation with a native speaker Read and write the language Master past, present, and imperfect tenses Complete with a Portuguese-English glossary and an arsenal of useful vocabulary, this book will have you speaking and writing Portuguese in no time!

Portuguese Dictionary
Portuguese Dictionary

Author: Jura D. Oliveira

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781400020256

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This dictionary includes more than 20,000 of the most frequently used Portuguese words. Readers will find more than simple definitions: Phrases, sentences and idiomatic expressions show how words are used in everyday Portuguese conversation. More than 1,000 of the most essential words are highlighted to make them easy to find. The Living Language(R) Portugese Dictionary has been revised and updated to reflect modern usage and features new entries related to business, technology, and the media. This dictionary is included along with a coursebook in the Complete Living Language(R) Portuguese course, available in cassette and compact disc editions

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1684480965

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Robinson Crusoe has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it.

A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso-Brazilian Empire
A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso-Brazilian Empire

Author: Luciane Scarato

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-21

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1000913546

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This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated before and after the arrival of the Europeans and the African diaspora. Challenging the assumption that the prevalence of Portuguese was a natural consequence and foregone conclusion of colonisation, the book argues that the language’s expansion was as much a result of state intervention as of individual agency. The growth of the Portuguese language was a tumultuous process that mirrored the power relations and conflicts between Amerindian, European, African, and mestizo actors who shaped, standardised, and promoted the language within and beyond state institutions. Knowing Portuguese became an identification sign of being Brazilian. However, a significant number of languages disappeared along the way, and the book highlights that virtual language homogeneity does not imply social equality. Portuguese’s variants place speakers on different social levels that justify domination and inequality. This research tells the history of a victorious language and other languages that left their mark on Brazilian Portuguese. A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso-Brazilian Empire is a useful resource for scholars interested in the history and standardisation of languages, Portuguese and Brazilian history, and the impacts of colonisation.

The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil
The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil

Author: Laura Álvarez López

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9027263183

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The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil is the first publication in English to offer studies on a whole set of varieties of Portuguese in Africa as well as Brazilian Portuguese. Authored by specialists on varieties of Portuguese in Africa and Brazil, the eleven chapters and the epilogue promote a dialogue between researchers interested in their genesis, sociohistories and linguistic properties. Most chapters directly address the idea of a continuum of Portuguese derived from parallel sociohistorical and linguistic factors in Africa and Brazil, due to the colonial expansion of the language to new multilingual settings. The volume contributes to the understanding of structural properties that are often shared by several varieties in this continuum, and describes the various situations and domains of language use as well as sociocultural contexts where they have emerged and where they are being used. As of 26 July 2021, the ebook edition is Open Access under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.