Portuguese English

From New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the phenomenally popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and winner of the inaugural Saga Award for Wit, comes the first wonderfully entertaining novel starring Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, distinguished philologist, and frequently inept human.

Walking the lesser traveled Portuguese Camino route, author Terence Callery makes the arduous 400-mile sacred pilgrimage from Lisbon to the tomb of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. At a crossroads in his life, the former Maine aquaculture executive and alpaca farmer describes the personal quest as “the most intensely spiritual seven weeks of my life.” Portuguese Camino-In Search of the Infinite Moment is the adroitly told story of two journeys taken in tandem. The first story focuses on how his walking meditation brings him into the “infinite moment” where he finds his ...

Earworms mbt(c) is a revolutionary accelerated technique that takes the hard work out of learning. By listening a few times to these specially composed melodies, with their rhythmic repetitions of Portuguese (European) and English, you will pick up essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue but burnt deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time. If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, Earworms mbt(c) Rapid Portuguese (European) is the course for you.

UPDATED MAY 2023 WITH VISA CHANGES In response to our readers' feedback, both public and private, we decided it is time to refresh our guide to reflect the new reality of moving to Portugal in 2023. We hope you enjoy it and we will continue to update this version from time-to-time at no cost to our readers. The big change this time is the termination of the Golden Visa program, and the new visa program that has been created. It is difficult to find anyone who dislikes Portugal after visiting. What’s not to like? Portugal is home to top-notch hiking, surfing, sailing, golf, food, weather...

⚜️ The next pilgrim could be YOU! Join 499,239 pilgrims who reached Santiago in 2024 with the updated 2025 Camino de Santiago Travel Guide: 1 BOOK, 9 ROUTES, EVERY ACCOMMODATION – with this pocket companion, SANTIAGO IS IN YOUR HANDS! ⚜️ Dear Future Pilgrim, ✅ Would you like to plan your Camino without relying on expensive travel agencies — but wouldn’t it be better to feel confident and well-informed about where to go, where to sleep, and how to avoid costly mistakes? ✅ Do you want to avoid physical strain by knowing exactly what to pack (and what to leave behind), how to...

Perhaps, you've already purchased other Portuguese-learning program or two. Or, maybe, you've purchased several and still feel you’re unable to speak Brazilian Portuguese with complete confidence or as if you’re an absolute beginner. In any case, you may be thinking that you’ll have to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on learning Portuguese programs and/or private Portuguese classes in order to take your Portuguese-speaking skills to the next level.

If you want to learn the Portuguese language without any previous knowledge, then pay attention...Are you: Quite busy and in need of a precise, but thorough, resource to learn Portuguese? Traveling to or working in a Portuguese-speaking country? This audiobook is divided into three parts: The very basics, grammar, and conversation. You’ll also find many fun quizzes throughout the audiobook that will allow you to practice your skills.

Slangs are part of a language, you'll never be a fluent speaker until you dominate a good part of them. This is a complete guide for the Portuguese slangs used in Brazil, with a lot of entries and examples. You'll find some tips of use and a classification method (how and when using each one of the entries).

Learning a new language is such an amazing tool that allows people from different parts of the world to connect more easily. In the case of the Portuguese language, several countries have it as the official language, making it the sixth most spoken language on Earth, with 170 million speakers worldwide. This means that learning it grants you the possibility of making friends or finding job opportunities in the most obscure places you can imagine.

Do You Want To Learn How To Speak Conversational Brazilian Portuguese Like a MF? Of course, no one really wants to learn how to speak Portuguese like a MF. What you really want is the ability to speak and understand Portuguese like a native speaker. If you're truly serious about speaking and comprehending Brazilian Portuguese like a native, then get this audiobook.

Have you ever wondered what country had the first truly global empire? Then pay attention... Folks used to say that the “Sun never sets on the British Empire” as a means of declaring Britain’s greatness. But it was the Portuguese who forged the first truly global empire. The major dominions of the Portuguese wrapped around the globe in a straight line, from Brazil to Angola, from Mozambique to India, and all the way to Macau. With its dominion under multiple time zones, the Sun, in fact, never did set on the Portuguese Empire.

Learning Portuguese is a tough challenge, no doubt about it. The rich vocabulary and complex grammar can be discouraging when you are taking your first steps into the learning process. The goal of this book is to teach Portuguese in the most effective way possible. This audiobook adopts a semi-communicative method: the storytelling approach. Telling stories is an effective educational tool because learners become engaged with the narrative and, therefore, remember the story and vocabulary associated with it, effortlessly, as well as making it easier to recognize sentence patterns.

Have you ever envisioned yourself engaging in fluent Portuguese conversations while traveling across Portugal or Brazil? Looking to master Portuguese quickly and easily? Embark on a transformative linguistic journey with this all-encompassing 4-in-1 bundle. Crafted meticulously for beginners, this guide bridges the gap between basic phrases and eloquent conversations, allowing learners to immerse fully in the nuances of Portuguese.

University of Porto English lecturer Isadora Lee is not excited about Christmas this year. She's tired and broke -- and doesn't have enough money to travel home to the United States for the holidays. She can barely stand to face her wealthy colleagues from the English department, especially not Ben Rhetters-Lyndons, an upper-class Brit who seems eager to prove that he can one-up her at everything. But, when Isadora and Ben stumble upon a secret 19th-century manuscript, they find themselves tangled in a 150 year-old mystery to find a missing artefact. As they peruse library documents, break-...

Easy Learning Portuguese teaches you key words for the most important situations and lets you expand your language through a variety of activities. You choose whether to focus on learning the essentials or to progress to some more challenging activities – so whether you’re a beginner, or you want to refresh and build upon your existing knowledge, you can become confident in Portuguese without even having to pick up a pen.

This audiobook includes three comprehensive Portuguese manuscripts in one audiobook. Not only will you learn grammar, but you'll also increase comprehension and grow your Portuguese vocabulary while enjoying yourself.

Amid Winter illnesses, a Camino veteran recalls the sights and sounds of the Caminho da Costa, North of Porto: boardwalks, endless sand and sea, wild gulls cry, and swallows scything an expanse of blue. He dreams of returning and books a flight, hoping that sea air and coastal walking might coax him back to health. This personal story, told midst magical settings, then merges with an Atlantic one, weaving together snapshots of Portugal's past and present. Telling the tale of a coastal people's courage and resilience, their embrace of James, the fisherman disciple, and the Legend of his ...

Do you know what the hardest thing for a Portuguese learner is? Finding proper reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book! Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes - it’s not entertaining, useful or motivating for the student at all, and many soon give up on learning at all!

Have you been trying to learn Portuguese and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered “Yes!” to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We’ve compiled the 2000 Most Common Portuguese Words in Context, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen.

In this 25-lesson series, you'll learn vital European Portuguese phrases in each lesson that will help prepare you for an upcoming trip.