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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby AtilioA » Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:05 pm

I'd stay away from literature's classics, they're somewhat hard even for us native speakers :P
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby Peluche » Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:37 pm

AtilioA wrote:I'd stay away from literature's classics, they're somewhat hard even for us native speakers :P


Which books are you referring to?
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby Peluche » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:20 pm

Another book (sort of):
https://www.wook.pt/livro/aprenda-ingle ... o/22874672

It's an old style book, with only text. It's for learning english, but the book provides PT translations for the EN exercises/sentences/texts which can be used for practice for learning PT.
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby lingua » Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:51 am

Does anyone know if there is a Portuguese publisher of educational language books similar Alma Edizioni in Italy? I've tried searching but am not sure that I'm using the right terms. While I prefer something from Portugual I will consider Brazil.
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby Peluche » Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:49 am

lingua wrote:Does anyone know if there is a Portuguese publisher of educational language books similar Alma Edizioni in Italy? I've tried searching but am not sure that I'm using the right terms. While I prefer something from Portugual I will consider Brazil.

https://www.lidel.pt/en/
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby lingua » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:42 pm

This site has a list of 20+ TV programs many of which may have subtitles though there doesn't appear to be a way to turn them on. Most of the links are for European Portuguese but it also has a few links to Brazilian sources. Instructions are provided on how to get a transcript of the subtitles. I easily downloaded the transcript for an episode of Casa de Chef. The second link is for videos.

https://www.portugalist.com/portuguese-tv-subtitles/
https://www.portugalist.com/portuguese-videos-with-subtitles/
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PT: Read 100 books: 28 / 100

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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby IntrepidLearner » Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:10 pm

A few courses, grammars, and readers can be found in the following post.
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby Fortheo » Thu Feb 03, 2022 3:12 am

The university of Wisconsin has their text book

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Available for free online. It's a complete course with thorough grammar notes, lots of exercises, and dialogue with acompanying audio. It's definitely a great course, especially considering it's free.

Here's the link:

https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/portuguese/
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby Diomedes » Tue Nov 01, 2022 2:31 am

Fortheo wrote:The university of Wisconsin has their text book

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Available for free online. It's a complete course with thorough grammar notes, lots of exercises, and dialogue with acompanying audio. It's definitely a great course, especially considering it's free.

Here's the link:

https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/portuguese/


As a native brazilian portuguese speaker (and the preface says the emphasis is on brazilian portuguese), I just checked this free course. I'm a bit perplexed.

Based on those fragments I read, It seems to be grammatically correct. But the lessons seem to be quite steep. It's also very funny to notice so many complex and/or useless words in the introdutory pronunciation session. Perhaps this is some kind of teaching strategy, but I personally tend to be curious about the new words I'm learning to say, and I DEFINITELY see no purpose on presenting obscure words like "armezim", "aranchar", "barururu", "nabal", "pândega", "nácar", and others (and these words are all in the page xiii, second preliminary lesson...). I wonder why to expose a total beginner to so many words that are totally alien to most brazilians... I can guarantee that you will never hear these words in a brazilian conversation, or even read them in current newspapers! Perhaps they are common in continental portuguese? I don't know. I suspect they are not. But if they are, this vocabulary is quite a mixed bag.

I did noticed a few other things, but I did not intend to be too harsh before reading it properly... It surely has a lot of great information too!
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Re: Portuguese resources

Postby Fortheo » Tue Nov 01, 2022 5:10 am

Diomedes wrote:
Fortheo wrote:The university of Wisconsin has their text book

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Available for free online. It's a complete course with thorough grammar notes, lots of exercises, and dialogue with acompanying audio. It's definitely a great course, especially considering it's free.

Here's the link:

https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/portuguese/


As a native brazilian portuguese speaker (and the preface says the emphasis is on brazilian portuguese), I just checked this free course. I'm a bit perplexed.

Based on those fragments I read, It seems to be grammatically correct. But the lessons seem to be quite steep. It's also very funny to notice so many complex and/or useless words in the introdutory pronunciation session. Perhaps this is some kind of teaching strategy, but I personally tend to be curious about the new words I'm learning to say, and I DEFINITELY see no purpose on presenting obscure words like "armezim", "aranchar", "barururu", "nabal", "pândega", "nácar", and others (and these words are all in the page xiii, second preliminary lesson...). I wonder why to expose a total beginner to so many words that are totally alien to most brazilians... I can guarantee that you will never hear these words in a brazilian conversation, or even read them in current newspapers! Perhaps they are common in continental portuguese? I don't know. I suspect they are not. But if they are, this vocabulary is quite a mixed bag.

I did noticed a few other things, but I did not intend to be too harsh before reading it properly... It surely has a lot of great information too!


I'm not surprised to hear that at all :D . My Brazilian friend had problems with just about every single language learning resources I could find for Brazilian Portuguese. I ended up just settling with what I could find. As for that particular resource, I didnt use all of it, but I remember the grammar instruction being useful.
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