Description

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The ultimate phrase guide for travel, business, and more!

"I'll have the chicken dish, please." "How do you get to the theater?"
"Let's set up a meeting."

Packed with everything you'll need to understand--and be understood by--Brazilian-Portuguese speakers, this pocket guide is the ultimate translator to have on an airplane, in a boardroom, at a restaurant, and anywhere else this beautiful language is spoken. Conveniently organized by subject and situation, this handy guide includes information on:

• How to make introductions, professionally and casually
• Ordering food in restaurants (with phrases for special diets and allergies)
• Asking for and giving directions
• Explaining medical emergencies to doctors
• Crafting status updates and tweets online
• Slang phrases for casual chatting

Complete with Brazilian Portuguese-English and English-Brazilian Portuguese dictionaries for quick reference, The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Phrase Book gives you the right words and phrases--whatever the situation!

About the Author

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Fernanda Ferreira, PhD, is a native speaker of Portuguese and has been teaching the language at the college level since 1993. She has completed a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ferreira has been teaching at Bridgewater State University since 2001, where she is a tenured professor and former chair of the foreign languages department. Dr. Ferreira lives in Brockton, Massachusetts.