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An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation.

Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an...

• Up-to-date coverage of today's language
• Offers over 40,000 entries and 70,000 translations
• Easy-to-use format
• Contains commonly used phrases and idioms
• Main irregular verb forms given
• Includes most common abbreviations, acronyms, and geographic names
• Pronunciations for English and Portuguese shown in the International Phonetic Alphabet

Diese Buch hat vier Schwerpunkte: 1. zeichnet es die historischen, sozialen und kulturellen Konfigurationen der Presse nach; 2. Begleitet es die kommunikativen Praktiken, Absichten und Strategien der Druckpresse; 3. rekonstruiert es die Situierung der Diskurstradition des Leitartikels im groeren Kontext der Zeitung; schlielich beschreibt es 4. Kontinuitat und Wandel der Komposition des Editorials in sprachlicher und auersprachlicher Hinsicht. Das Buch leistet innerhalb einer allgemeineren Theorie der Kommunikation einen Beitrag zum Forschungsgebiet der Diskurstraditionen, das in...

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Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Portuguese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

- Cool slang

- Funny insults

- Explicit sex terms

- Raw swear words

Dirty Portuguese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Brazil:

What's up? -- Tudo bem?

Are those fake boobs? -- Voce tem silicone no peito?

I need to take a piss. -- Preciso...

This book is the ideal workbook if you're looking to learn the basics of the language, whether you're a beginner or intermediate student. Featuring interactive exercises and lessons that help you:

• Study nouns, conjugate verbs, and perfect pronunciations
• Learn common words and...

Bom Dia, Brasil is a completely revised and updated edition of the popular beginning Portuguese text Portugues Basico para Estrangeiros. It aims to teach the Portuguese language in a fast, interesting, and efficient way. The method employed engages students' interest by exploring personal, social, professional, and cultural topics, while providing them with the basic concepts needed to communicate effectively in Portuguese.

Thirty-six thematic units in the book explore personal, social, professional, and cultural topics. Music, poetry, and other authentic materials...

An essential, comprehensive guide for all who are interested in learning the Portuguese language and mastering its complexities, Portuguese: A Reference Manual supplements the phonetic and grammatical explanations offered in basic textbooks. While the Manual focuses on Brazilian Portuguese, it incorporates European Portuguese variants and thus provides a more complete description of the language. Accessible to non-linguists and novice language learners, as well as informative for instructors of Portuguese and specialists in other languages, this guide incorporates...

This highly accessible book examines linguistic diversity in Galicia, one of the devolved regions of Spain. Its principal hypotheses are: that the Galician language is an intrinsic characteristic of Galician ethnic identity: that policy and planning impact on the behavioural practices of language users, reflected in loyalty and prestige factors: that whilst a reversal in traditional perceptions and attitudes is resulting in a reaffirmation of Galician as the autochthonous language, its sociolinguistic relationship with Castilian has not been resolved: that Galicians have to negotiate...