Book description
The ultimate phrase guide for travel, business, and more!
"I'll have the chicken dish, please."
"How do
you get to the theater?"
"Let's set up a meeting."
Packed with everything you'll need to understand--and be understood
by--Brazilian-Portuguese speakers, this pocket guide is the ultimate
translator to have on an airplane, in a boardroom, at a restaurant,
and anywhere else this beautiful language is spoken. Conveniently
organized by subject and situation, this handy guide includes
information on:
- How to make introductions, professionally and
casually
- Ordering food in restaurants (with phrases for
special diets and allergies)
- Asking for and giving
directions
- Explaining medical emergencies to doctors
- Crafting status updates and tweets online
- Slang
phrases for casual chatting
Complete with Brazilian
Portuguese-English and English-Brazilian Portuguese dictionaries for
quick reference,
The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Phrase
Book gives you the right words and phrases--whatever the situation!
Fernanda Ferreira, PhD, is a native of Brazil. She has taught
Portuguese at the college level for more than ten years and is a
tenured professor and Acting Chair of the Foreign Languages Department
at Bridgewater State University. Ferreira is also the author of The
Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book and The
Everything Brazilian Portuguese Practice Book.
