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Pimsleur Portuguese (Brazilian) Level 1: Learn to Speak and Understand Brazilian Portuguese with Pimsleur Language Programs
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Brazilian Portuguese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Brazilian Portuguese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.
Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.
• Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.
• Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.
What’s Included?
• 30, 30-minute audio lessons
• 60 minutes of reading instruction to provide you with an introduction to reading Portuguese and designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent
• in total, 16 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers
• A digital Reading Booklet
What You’ll Learn
In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more. You’ll be able to handle minimum courtesy requirements, understand much of what you hear, and be understood at a beginning level, but with near-native pronunciation skills.
In the next 10 lessons, you’ll build on what you’ve learned. Expand your menu, increase your scheduling abilities from general to specific, start to deal with currency and exchanging money, refine your conversations and add over a hundred new vocabulary items. You’ll understand more of what you hear, and be able to participate with speech that is smoother and more confident.
In the final 10 lessons, you’ll be speaking and understanding at an intermediate level. More directions are given in Brazilian Portuguese, which moves your learning to a whole new plane. Lessons include shopping, visiting friends, going to a restaurant, plans for the evening, car trips, and talking about family. You’ll be able to speak comfortably about things that happened in the past and make plans for the future.
Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Brazilian Portuguese and expand your horizons and enrich your life.
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Brazilian Portuguese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.
Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.
• Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.
• Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.
What’s Included?
• 30, 30-minute audio lessons
• 60 minutes of reading instruction to provide you with an introduction to reading Portuguese and designed to teach you to sound out words with correct pronunciation and accent
• in total, 16 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers
• A digital Reading Booklet
What You’ll Learn
In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more. You’ll be able to handle minimum courtesy requirements, understand much of what you hear, and be understood at a beginning level, but with near-native pronunciation skills.
In the next 10 lessons, you’ll build on what you’ve learned. Expand your menu, increase your scheduling abilities from general to specific, start to deal with currency and exchanging money, refine your conversations and add over a hundred new vocabulary items. You’ll understand more of what you hear, and be able to participate with speech that is smoother and more confident.
In the final 10 lessons, you’ll be speaking and understanding at an intermediate level. More directions are given in Brazilian Portuguese, which moves your learning to a whole new plane. Lessons include shopping, visiting friends, going to a restaurant, plans for the evening, car trips, and talking about family. You’ll be able to speak comfortably about things that happened in the past and make plans for the future.
Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Brazilian Portuguese and expand your horizons and enrich your life.
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June 10, 2024
I'm on a manic mission to learn Brazilian Portuguese in order to visit my long lost Brazilian family next year, inshallah. Trying to do a Pimsleur level a week (only doable as I have a strong grounding in romance languages already).
This was my first time trying the Pimsleur method. I was drawn to it as I really (really) love the languagetransfer audio couraes for language learning, and this was the closest I could find in terms of being auditory learning that forces you to actively think and create sentences. The method is not as good as languagetransfer. It's much slower, doesn't really get you to think about the structure of a language actively, uses no vocab transfer from English, tries to imply grammar which it could easily force you to figure out and apply widely instead. I still found it pretty good compared to other resources out there for Brazilian.
It is a good grounding to get pronounciation and basic sentence structure down, very active learning so you end up pretty confident with what you know compared to going through textbooks and apps. It moves VERY slowly but if you find Portuguese pronounciation challenging - which I do - it's good to keep repeating things. It doesn't actively teach grammar but if you're familiar with romance languages (or just really good at pattern recognition) it's very easy to extrapolate it.
For grammar people who like to know what they're getting (which I couldn't find summariaed anywhere), this covers:
- Word order
- Subject pronouns, possessive pronouns, some relative pronouns
- Gender of words and adjectives
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Simple present tense
- The vou+infinitive form of the future tense (going to do)
- Basic verbs constructions like I want (to do) x, I need (to do) x
- Questions
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Prepositions and contractions
- Introduces the past
- Ser vs estar vs ficar
- Formal and informal constructions
- Comparative
This was my first time trying the Pimsleur method. I was drawn to it as I really (really) love the languagetransfer audio couraes for language learning, and this was the closest I could find in terms of being auditory learning that forces you to actively think and create sentences. The method is not as good as languagetransfer. It's much slower, doesn't really get you to think about the structure of a language actively, uses no vocab transfer from English, tries to imply grammar which it could easily force you to figure out and apply widely instead. I still found it pretty good compared to other resources out there for Brazilian.
It is a good grounding to get pronounciation and basic sentence structure down, very active learning so you end up pretty confident with what you know compared to going through textbooks and apps. It moves VERY slowly but if you find Portuguese pronounciation challenging - which I do - it's good to keep repeating things. It doesn't actively teach grammar but if you're familiar with romance languages (or just really good at pattern recognition) it's very easy to extrapolate it.
For grammar people who like to know what they're getting (which I couldn't find summariaed anywhere), this covers:
- Word order
- Subject pronouns, possessive pronouns, some relative pronouns
- Gender of words and adjectives
- Definite and indefinite articles
- Simple present tense
- The vou+infinitive form of the future tense (going to do)
- Basic verbs constructions like I want (to do) x, I need (to do) x
- Questions
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- Prepositions and contractions
- Introduces the past
- Ser vs estar vs ficar
- Formal and informal constructions
- Comparative
August 2, 2022
You can't beat Pimsleur for rapidly gaining conversational ability. It's not the only thing you'll need in your language learning toolbox, but it's an essential component, especially if you don't have regular access to native speakers.
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