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Title: Modern Portuguese: A Reference Grammar by Mario A. Perini ISBN: 0-300-09155-9 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: For Brazil but not only
Comment: Usually there appears to be great confusion about what is Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese. When asking native speakers, I have on occasions been given contradictory information. This new book is very helpful for people like me who have to be able to distinguish between the two standards, because professional commitments take me to both South America and Europe. This book signposts what is better left for colloquial usage only, in Brazil, and what is better left for written or formal usage in Brazil and Portugal. Everything else looks like safe ground. I may speak a bit Brazilian in Portugal but I am pretty sure that my Portuguese will be accepted. In approach and wide application, this reference grammar will find a good 'Partner' in Manuela Cook's recent Teach Yourself Portuguese a complete course in understanding speaking and writing (with audio), 2002, which has also served me well for both sides of the Atlantic.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not the best reference grammar for learners of Portuguese as L2
Comment: Mario Perini's reference grammar of modern Portuguese is probably fine as a work of descriptive linguistics that covers different varieties of contemporary Brazilian Portuguese ranging from the formal written standard to the educated familiar language and the substandard popular (uneducated) speech. However, I would not recommend this grammar as a textbook for students learning Portuguese as a second language. Although it is certainly useful for an advanced learner to be familiar with language variation within Brazil, it is probably safer for a student to stick with the standard language as found in the national newspapers or heard in the national TV newscasts. In fact, a student who masters the standard will have no problem understanding either the usual (urban) colloquial language or substandard (low-prestige) popular speech.
Rating: 2
Summary: Sub-standard vesus standard
Comment: This book tries to convince the reader that some sub-standard practices in spoken portuguese are after all standard. It goes to the extreme of distorting grammatical categories to make the argument look right. The sections on imperative and the pronouns are rather mixed up.
The author should stick to the portuguese spoken on good brazilian TV programmes and that you read in interviews etc in reputable brazilian magazines. The worst is that this book is presented as suitable for foreigners. You want to learn standard, not sub-standard language!
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Title: Talking Brazilian: A Brazilian Portugese Pronunciation Workbook by Mario A. Perini ISBN: 0300100213 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 501 Portuguese Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by John J. Nitti, Michael J. Ferreira ISBN: 0812090349 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Essential Portuguese Grammar (Dover Books on Language) by Alexander Da R. Prista ISBN: 0486216500 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Grammar of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese by Earl W. Thomas ISBN: 082651197X Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1975 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Larousse Concise Dictionary: Portuguese-English/English-Portuguese by Editors of Larousse ISBN: 2035420016 Publisher: Larousse Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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