Welcome to the forum, Nacho1996! With a view to limiting the number of discussion threads labelled “Portuguese Resources”, I have copied/pasted your question into the existing thread. By doing so, (a) you will have an opportunity to “delete” your new discussion thread, (b) other members will be less tempted to respond to your question by adding resources to your thread, and (c) anyone wishing to update the current list will have opportunity to do so.Nacho1996 wrote:Hey everybody! I am new here and I was wondering if somebody here has online resources to study portuguese
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Nacho1996 wrote:Hey everybody! I am new here and I was wondering if somebody here has online resources to study portuguese
If you want a free online resource for Portuguese, look no further than the Cortina Portuguese, hosted by agreement with the publisher here:
https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/cortina.html
It is a series of short "dialogues" followed by pattern drills in each chapter. They are probably pretty transparent to a native Spanish speaker, and through pattern practice you could learn to associate the differences between the two languages. The biggest issue I see is that it is geared towards English speakers, so some considerations might be left out while others might be mundane. Nonetheless, this is a free way to start and to get a feel for Portuguese.
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'Muito Prazer' proved the course most helpful to me when I started learning Portuguese. The book includes dialouges from a crew of very talented voice actors, and interesting content from day-to-day life in São Paulo, ranging from renting an apartment, to dealing with traffic jams, planning a trip to a club, making excuses for being late to work, and asking an acquaintance on a date.
The content is 100% in Portuguese, supplemented with pictures to describe certain words. I would recommend you have some background in Portuguese before starting, I personally started once I reached the active wave of Assimil. As in terms of the language, it is that of an upper-middle class Paulista, but it is the spoken colloquial form, using tá, tão, tô, instead of está, estão, and estou, and with various slang words and constructs (Tá osso manô!)
The course creators were insightful enough to include worksheets for every lesson, which are freely available at: http://www.muitoprazerlivro.com.br/mate ... ad/alunos/. There are both worksheets for the lesson as well as grammatical exercises for all of the 20 lessons, so even if you don't purchase the book, you can still use these to brush up on your Brazilian Portuguese.
In terms of dictionaries, you can't go wrong with "A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese" by Mark Davis and Ana-Maria Raposo Preto-Bay. The authors analyzed a corpus of thousands of books and newspapers from both Portugal and Brazil, and published the top 5000 words. Various semantic catagories of words are charted and interspersed throughout, such as body parts, animals, emotions, and verbs of movement, along with their lexcial ranking. This book has really helped me close the gaps in my vocabulary.
The content is 100% in Portuguese, supplemented with pictures to describe certain words. I would recommend you have some background in Portuguese before starting, I personally started once I reached the active wave of Assimil. As in terms of the language, it is that of an upper-middle class Paulista, but it is the spoken colloquial form, using tá, tão, tô, instead of está, estão, and estou, and with various slang words and constructs (Tá osso manô!)
The course creators were insightful enough to include worksheets for every lesson, which are freely available at: http://www.muitoprazerlivro.com.br/mate ... ad/alunos/. There are both worksheets for the lesson as well as grammatical exercises for all of the 20 lessons, so even if you don't purchase the book, you can still use these to brush up on your Brazilian Portuguese.
In terms of dictionaries, you can't go wrong with "A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese" by Mark Davis and Ana-Maria Raposo Preto-Bay. The authors analyzed a corpus of thousands of books and newspapers from both Portugal and Brazil, and published the top 5000 words. Various semantic catagories of words are charted and interspersed throughout, such as body parts, animals, emotions, and verbs of movement, along with their lexcial ranking. This book has really helped me close the gaps in my vocabulary.
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Re: Portuguese resources
Lidel now has graded readers for (European) Portuguese
https://www.lidel.pt/en/catalogue/europ ... ng/page-1/
https://www.lidel.pt/en/catalogue/europ ... ng/page-1/
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I misread that as Lidl and thought I was going to pick up a language-learning bargain on my next supermarket trip.
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1076763685/
Anyone know if its European or Brazilean Portuguese?
There are some review pages available via preview.
Anyone know if its European or Brazilean Portuguese?
There are some review pages available via preview.
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Hello, Gemuse, the blurb on the back cover says: “Please note that this book has been written with a Brazilian Portuguese touch”.Gemuse wrote:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1076763685/
Anyone know if its European or Brazilean Portuguese?
There are some review pages available via preview.
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aravinda wrote:Hello, Gemuse, the blurb on the back cover says: “Please note that this book has been written with a Brazilian Portuguese touch”.Gemuse wrote:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1076763685/
Anyone know if its European or Brazilean Portuguese?
There are some review pages available via preview.
Doh!
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1717170501/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1950924351/
I hope they are European PT (anyone know?)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1950924351/
I hope they are European PT (anyone know?)
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Gemuse wrote:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1717170501/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1950924351/
I hope they are European PT (anyone know?)
They are.
However, I read the preview of the first one and I spotted a mistake. In the sentence "O pouco que estudava chegava era suficiente para passar nos testes", the underlined part is incorrect. A better way would be:
- "O pouco que estudava era o suficiente para passar nos testes" or "O pouco que estudava chegava para passar nos testes"
Didn't spot any mistakes on the second link. The preview seems to show less content compared to the first link. But taking into account that the resource is for beginners, there was one sentence there that seemed kind of complex (and long).
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