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Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners: Learn Brazilian Portuguese and Build Your Vocabulary the Fun and Easy Way
Reading in Portuguese is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. With our book Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners , you can practice reading while working on your Portuguese vocabulary and grammar skills.
• Each chapter comes with a Portuguese glossary to help you learn new words and phrases more easily.
• Test your understanding of each Portuguese short story using the comprehension questions.
• Learn Portuguese grammar naturally from texts written by native speakers from Brazil.
• Each chapter comes with a Portuguese glossary to help you learn new words and phrases more easily.
• Test your understanding of each Portuguese short story using the comprehension questions.
• Learn Portuguese grammar naturally from texts written by native speakers from Brazil.
82 pages, Paperback
Published October 16, 2022
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February 17, 2020
Build Portuguese Vocabulary
Language Guru has amassed quite a few titles in its Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners series. Each of these books has similar short story themes, like food, work, or exercise. The details only change slightly. For instance, the food sections often reflect the culture of the language’s native speakers. These books are meant to be used in the extensive method of learning language as an adult. That means that you should try to pick up the meaning through context and not slavishly look up every word that you don't know. In a slight bow to intensive learning, the authors do give a vocabulary list in both languages for each story. They recommend, as do I, that you actually look at the vocabulary list first so you can at least grasp a few essential keywords and phrases to help your understanding of the text. Each story has a similar format: the short story in Portuguese, the Portuguese-English vocabulary list, a short quiz in Portuguese about the story, and finally the English translation of the story. I think these books can be helpful to a late beginning or intermediate foreign language learner, whether your course of study is intensive or extensive. The short stories are relatively short and use fairly simple vocabulary and structure. I wouldn't recommend this book for the rank beginner, as you would get lost very quickly with no basis in the language.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com
Language Guru has amassed quite a few titles in its Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners series. Each of these books has similar short story themes, like food, work, or exercise. The details only change slightly. For instance, the food sections often reflect the culture of the language’s native speakers. These books are meant to be used in the extensive method of learning language as an adult. That means that you should try to pick up the meaning through context and not slavishly look up every word that you don't know. In a slight bow to intensive learning, the authors do give a vocabulary list in both languages for each story. They recommend, as do I, that you actually look at the vocabulary list first so you can at least grasp a few essential keywords and phrases to help your understanding of the text. Each story has a similar format: the short story in Portuguese, the Portuguese-English vocabulary list, a short quiz in Portuguese about the story, and finally the English translation of the story. I think these books can be helpful to a late beginning or intermediate foreign language learner, whether your course of study is intensive or extensive. The short stories are relatively short and use fairly simple vocabulary and structure. I wouldn't recommend this book for the rank beginner, as you would get lost very quickly with no basis in the language.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com
May 20, 2022
I enjoyed it
It was another great read in Portuguese. The stories were fairly easy to understand. Even though I didn’t have to worry much about the quizzes at the end, I still tried my best. I even reread certain parts to make sure I was correct.
So yeah, I’d say check it out. It’s pretty good. 👍
It was another great read in Portuguese. The stories were fairly easy to understand. Even though I didn’t have to worry much about the quizzes at the end, I still tried my best. I even reread certain parts to make sure I was correct.
So yeah, I’d say check it out. It’s pretty good. 👍
March 15, 2023
Excellent way to learn
The chapters are filled with stories that are engaging but also ones that get progressively harder as you get further on. I feel like these short stories are the perfect way to refine my language skills. Hats off to the creators and I hope they do more advanced ones in Portuguese.
The chapters are filled with stories that are engaging but also ones that get progressively harder as you get further on. I feel like these short stories are the perfect way to refine my language skills. Hats off to the creators and I hope they do more advanced ones in Portuguese.
February 24, 2020
I love languages and learning languages through short stories is incredibly helpful. This book has helped me immensely.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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