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Published: 25/07/2008

Extent: 2 Hrs

 

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Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Portuguese in the same way.

You'll stick with it because you'll love it

Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Portuguese in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising.

You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

 

The NEW Portuguese Introductory Course

This is the first two hours of the eight-hour Portuguese Foundation Course. Join Michel

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own

• Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain

• Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio - the way you want to learn

• Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected

• Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Portuguese

• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced, and Vocabulary

• Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Portuguese

Table of Contents:
-ible / -able cognates
(não) é para mim / para o senhor/a senhora (‘it’s (not) for me / for you’ - negatives & prepositions)
lamento (‘I’m sorry’ - ‘I’ verb ending)
-ant / -ent cognates
porque é que…? (‘why is it that?’ - asking questions) / tenho( o), quero(-o) (‘I have it, I want it’)
não o tenho/quero (‘I don’t have/want it’ - reinforce ‘I’ verb ending & position of ‘it’)
o que…? (‘what…?’ - asking questions)
tem / quer /quere-o (‘you have/want it’ - ‘you’ [formal] verb ending) / posso (‘I can’) / pode (‘you can’)
fazer / comer / ver / saber (‘to do/eat/see/know’ - introduction to verb infinitive)
‘to be hungry’ idiom
ary cognates
position of ‘it’ etc. with verb infinitives
precisar de (‘to need OF’ - verb + ‘of’ & contraction of ‘of’ and ‘it’)
não o quero ver/quero vê-lo (‘I don’t want to see it/I want to see it’ - position of ‘it’ & infinitive
-ence / -ance cognates
a / uma (‘the/a’)
esta (‘this’)
jantar ‘to dine’)
-tion cognates
onde? (‘where’)
pode (‘will you/can you?’ + dar (‘to give’)
converting ‘-tion’ nouns into verbs
introduction to the 3 types of verb infinitive (-AR / -ER / -IR)
sair (‘to go out’)/ vir (‘to come’) / compreender (‘to understand’) / dizer (‘to say’) / comprar (‘to buy’) / ver (‘to see’) / ter (‘to have’) with o, a, os, as, me (‘it, them, me’)
tenho & tenho de (‘I have’ & ‘I have to’)
quando? (‘when’) / -ic cognates
the position and agreement of adjectives
em Portugal / no Brasil (‘in Portugal/in [the] Brazil’)
como? / quanto? (‘how’ / ‘how much’)
estar (estou & está) vs. ser (sou & é) (‘to be/I am/you are/she/he/is’ - two verbs for ‘to be’)
ir + infinitive (‘to be going to’ - introduction to immediate future)
mais (‘more’)
how to ask ‘at what time?’
use of ele / ela / o senhor /a senhora (‘he/she/you’) to clarify or emphasise
adjective agreement and use of two forms of ‘to be’
tudo & nada (‘everything/nothing’)
muito (‘much/very’)

About the Author(s):

Virginia Catmur studied Portuguese at the universities of Oxford and Lisbon. As Languages Editor at Hodder, she worked in the studio with Michel Thomas during the recording of his Advanced courses in 2004 and was responsible for their audio editing. She has since developed courses in new languages using the Michel Thomas Method.

Readership:
Self-access course for adult beginners

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