Brazilian Portuguese for Dummies

SAY, 'OLA' TO YOUR NEW FAVORITE LANGUAGE

Brazilian Portuguese For Dummies 3^rd 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

Karen Jacobson-Sive is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. She worked as a journalist in Brazil for many years before re-locating to New York where she taught language classes. She is the author of the previous editions of Portuguese For Dummies.