Portuguese Language. Self-Study Guide

This self-study guide is designed for those who are learning Portuguese independently. It allows you to develop the speaking skills necessary for communication and reading simple literature, and to master the fundamentals of grammar: the lessons of the self-study guide... introduce both the grammatical features of the language and commonly used conversational vocabulary. Having mastered it, you can easily handle any situation when directly communicating with the residents of Portugal and Brazil. For quick memorization of common speech constructions, carefully read the collections of lexical material, which are accompanied by transliteration (the thematic list is provided in the table of contents). In each lesson of the self-study guide, you will find descriptions of lexical and grammatical categories of all parts of speech, exercises for memorizing the studied material, and texts using active speech structures. For checking completed exercises, lesson keys are provided at the end of the book. The self-study lessons are supplemented by a dictionary, which can be used to translate unfamiliar words encountered in the exercises. The book also contains country-specific information that will undoubtedly be useful when traveling in Portugal and Brazil.