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“Portuguese lessons”

Aug
4
2009

Teach Yourself Portuguese Conversation (Paperback) by Sue Tyson-Ward

Score:
1 2 3 4 (5) 6 7 8 9 10
“Five outta ten!”
Pros:
price (relative to other CD/audio conversation courses); full dialogs; fairly realistic usage
Cons:
limited amount and scope of material; little to guide you along at your own pace; focus on larger chunks of language; no real exercise; little attention to grammar or structure

This audio CD-based program [...]

Aug
3
2009

Teach Yourself Portuguese Complete Course with Audio CDs, by Manuela Cook

Score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 (7) 8 9 10
“Seven outta ten!”
Pros:
price; exercises throughout; good coverage of grammar, pronunciation & conversation topics
Cons:
a bit formulaic; learning requires repeating along with dialogs and vocabulary; heavy reliance on English

This course contains ten units that teach both European and Brazilian Portuguese, with a bit of an emphasis on the [...]