50 Brazilian Idioms: A "Speak Like a Local" Language Guide

Want to enhance your Portuguese and start sounding like a native Brazilian? For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Portuguese saying, only to have the whole add up to nonsense, this book provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents. With 50 Portuguese expressions that real Brazilians use every day, you can quickly find some unique phrases to add to your conversations and get you sounding like a native in no time. Compact and comprehensive, this tool is perfect for a student's backpack or a translator's briefcase. Also includes a very detailed history of Brazilian Portuguese, to help you understand why these idioms make sense, and how they all came to be! Although Portuguese looks very intimidating and difficult to learn, with similarities to Spanish, but a distinct pronunciation pattern of nasal sounds and dipthongs, once the basic rules have been learned, pronunciation is fairly straightforward. This guide will give you the basics you need to start your studies, take a vacation, and open up some new horizons in your life!