How To Learn PortugueseStudents often ask 'How To Learn Portuguese?' - what they mean is how to best learn Protuguese so that the effort that is put inot learning Portuguese pays out maximum benefits. There are a few questions you should answer for yourself before you decide on the best way to learn Portuguese:
Depending on your answer, you will want to learn the variation of Portuguese that fits the geographicla area. Also, if you need to be able to negociate contracts in Portuguese and use the language predominantly for business pupses, you will need to learn a more formal Portuguese than if you want to use your Portnuguese skills mostly for social encounters and whilst travelling. Independently of the answers above, one important aspect of speaking and learning Protuguese is the pronunciation. To learn how to pronounce Portuguese correctly, it's vital to have native Portuguese speakers teach you from start. This avoids you picking up bad habits and learning wrong pronunciations. The Pimsleur Protuguese audio course on this site is a great starting point and will guide you into the language. From the basis you will learn from this Protuguese classes you can then continue in any of the above directions.
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What customers say about the Pimsleur PORTUGUESE audios:
Great beginning
language course for those long commutes
The
Pimsleur series is very different from the other language CDs I
have tried. It uses repetitive short conversations and
sentences to intuitively learn grammar and structure without
formally "thinking" about the grammar and structure. This
approach is slow, but very effective. Each lesson is 30 minutes
in length and gradually adds to the previous lesson. Other
language CDs often just have you mimic and repeat different
words or sentences over and over, which gets old fast. Pimsleur
has you repeat the words a few times, but then asks you to
recall them on your own, and puts them in context using short
conversations where you ask and answer questions with an
imaginary Brazilian woman sitting next to you (presumably at a
bar). The Conversational series are just an introduction to
PImsleur Level I courses, so you won't know much by the end of
them, and will need to buy the full set. --
M. White, Silver Spring, MD, USA
I love the method that Pimsleur employs to make a new language stick to the grey matter between my ears. The CD says the words in English and then in Portuguese, with careful pronounciation. There are nice, long pauses to repeat the words aloud. As the lessons progress, the prompts vary from just a translation to things like "Say 'good morning, miss'". It teaches a few phrases, then adds a few more, then goes back to prompt you to recall what you learned a lesson ago and combines it with the new phrases. I hope to visit Portugal someday, and Pimsleur will help me function as a tourist! -- Wendy Black,Santa Rosa, CA, USA
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