The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Phrase Book: Learn Basic Brazilian Portuguese Phrases - For Any Situation!

by Fernanda Ferreira

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440555282
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	12/18/2012
Series:	Everything® Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.
Fernanda Ferreira, PhD, is a native speaker of Portuguese and has been teaching the language at the college level since 1993. She has completed a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ferreira has been teaching at Bridgewater State University since 2001, where she is a tenured professor and former chair of the foreign languages department. Dr. Ferreira lives in Brockton, Massachusetts.