Portuguese Language. Self-Study Guide

This self-study guide is intended for those who learn Portuguese independently. It allows you to develop speaking skills necessary for communication and reading simple literature, and to master the basics of grammar: the lessons of the self-study guide familiarize you... with both the grammatical features of the language and common everyday vocabulary. Having mastered it, you can easily navigate any situation when directly interacting with residents of Portugal and Brazil. For quick memorization of common speech constructions, carefully read the selections with lexical material, which is accompanied by transliteration (the thematic list is provided in the contents). In each lesson of the self-study guide, you will find descriptions of lexical-grammatical categories of all parts of speech, exercises for memorizing the studied material, and texts using active speech structures. At the end of the book, lesson keys are provided to check the completed exercises. The lessons of the self-study guide are supplemented with a dictionary that you can use to translate unfamiliar words encountered in the exercises. The book also contains country-specific information that will undoubtedly be useful during your travels in Portugal and Brazil.