Karen Jacobson-Sive

Brazilian Portuguese For Dummies Karen Jacobson-Sive 3rd edition

SAY, 'OLA' TO YOUR NEW FAVORITE LANGUAGE

Brazilian Portuguese For Dummies 3rd Edition will take readers through the basics of Brazilian Portuguese. Topics covered will include: greetings, travel phrases, business phrases, numbers and measurements, and updated phrases for communicating in the digital age. Whether language learners are studying Portuguese for a class or for pleasure, Dummies is the best guide for getting started with Portuguese.

UPDATES: Revise all prices in reais (Brazil's currency) Revise mentions of Brazil's booming economy Update sports references (World Cup and Summer Olympics are now in the past) Omit short Olympics chapter (I doubt Brazil will be hosting the Olympics again anytime soon) Update political and public figures (add former president, for example) Create new content around Covid-19 (vocab such as mask, sanitizer, vaccine) Add brief section to teach social media words/phrases Add brief section to teach texting vocab (current edition only discusses email as mode of communication) Add new terminology to cover electric/hybrid cars in car rental section Update travel requirements such as fingerprinting upon landing in Brazil Modern cultural sensitivity revisions: in few instances change wording for gender / sexual / racial sensitivity / class references Update website URLs, phone numbers, popular musicians, recommended movies, current major airline companies in Brazil, which international bank cards are easiest to use in Brazil nowadays Correct a few basic typos/stylistic edits