E-book – Aquarela Portuguese for Foreigners – 4th Edition: E-book

This comprehensive book (complete with 8 hours of high-quality audio instruction) will reflect concepts in Brazilian Portuguese language instruction that the author have developed over the last 14 years while teaching Portuguese to hundreds of students of US Federal Government, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and private sector. Although this book is primarily intended for beginning to intermediate level students, given the book’s comprehensive nature, it will prove useful to anyone in need of a thorough and well-organized textbook and a review of Portuguese.

Aquarela Portuguese for Foreigners is designed to teach Portuguese as a second language to people who are interested in learning the language and culture of Brazil. Whether you are interested in business, pleasure or both, Aquarela will expose you all aspects of Brazilian Portuguese and culture. This book aims to be a practical approach to language training, focusing on everyday language use as well as work-related situations. The method provides students of Brazilian Portuguese with an in-depth, structured approach to learning vocabulary, and helps them develop oral communication and comprehension skills. Grammar is explained for practical use, keeping linguistic terminology to a minimum. This book is an excellent source of wide-ranging, up-to date vocabulary and useful phrases, and is suitable for adult students. Aquarela was created to be practical and user-friendly. It contains original artwork and photos which help the user better visualize the beauty of Brazil’s landmarks, architecture, landscape, folklore and culture. Lessons are easy to access thanks to a straightforward structure. Grammar is explained in English, presented schematically with graphics and tables, and in context, emphasizing particular grammatical concepts introduced in logical order. The book uses a highly effective method with audio lessons aimed to develop listening comprehension and pronunciation skills. The audios enables you to hear Portuguese as it is really spoken by presenting dialogues between native Brazilian speakers. The audios includes recordings of all 10 lesson dialogues and texts, some grammar, vocabulary and oral exercises. They are available for free download on the author’s website https://www.aquarelabooks.com/.