Master essential language skills to build your confidence in basic Portuguese

Whether you are learning on your own with a textbook or taking a beginning class, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will support your study and build your confidence in your new language. Each bite-sized lesson of this proven guide focuses on essential vocabulary and key grammar concepts, illustrated with clear examples. You will then learn to communicate in authentic Portuguese: how to meet new people, engage in small talk, express ideas, and more.

More than 180 entertaining exercises will help you practice your new skills. And this second edition is also accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study.

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will help you master:

• High-frequency vocabulary
• Ser vs. estar, saber vs. conhecer, ter and its uses
• Sets of flashcards for all the vocabulary lists
• Superlatives and comparisons: tão and tanto
• Continental Portuguese and Brazilian variants
• Verb tenses, sentence structure, and more