Brazilian Portuguese For Dummies 3^rd Edition will take readers through the basics of Brazilian Portuguese. Topics covered will include: greetings, travel phrases, business phrases, numbers and measurements, and updated phrases for communicating in the digital age. Whether language learners are studying Portuguese for a class or for pleasure, Dummies is the best guide for getting started with Portuguese.

UPDATES:

Revise all prices in reais (Brazil's currency)
Revise mentions of Brazil's booming economy
Update sports references (World Cup and Summer Olympics are now in the past)
Omit short Olympics chapter (I doubt Brazil will be hosting the Olympics again anytime soon)
Update political and public figures (add former president, for example)
Create new content around Covid-19 (vocab such as mask, sanitizer, vaccine)
Add brief section to teach social media words/phrases
Add brief section to teach texting vocab (current edition only discusses email as mode of communication)
Add new terminology to cover electric/hybrid cars in car rental section
Update travel requirements such as fingerprinting upon landing in Brazil
Modern cultural sensitivity revisions: in few instances change wording for gender / sexual / racial sensitivity / class references
Update website URLs, phone numbers, popular musicians, recommended movies, current major airline companies in Brazil, which international bank cards are easiest to use in Brazil nowadays
Correct a few basic typos/stylistic edits

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Jacobson-Sive, Karen
ISBN: 9781119894650
Condition: New
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Year: 2022

Language: English

Brazilian Portuguese for Dummies

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