PO eoeuess OF BRAZIL The Complete Course for BeginnersThe Colloquial Series Series adviser: Gary King ‘The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: Afrikaans Korean Albanian Latvian Amharic Lithuanian Arabic (Levantine) Malay Arabic of Egypt Mongolian Arabic of the Gulf and Saudi Norwegian Arabia Panjabi Basque Persian Bulgarian Polish * Cambodian © Cantonese Portuguese Portuguese of Brazil * Chinese Romanian Croatian and Serbian * Russian Czech Scottish Gaelic Danish Slovak Dutch Slovene Estonian Somali Finnish * Spanish French Spanish of Latin America German Swedish Gujarati Tamil Greek * Thai Hindi ‘Turkish Hungarian Urdu Icelandic Ukrainian Indonesian Vietnamese Italian Welsh i ‘i Accompanying cassette(s) (* and CDs) are available forall the above titles. They can be ordered through your bookseller or send Payment with order to Taylor & Francis/Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants SP10 SBE, UK, or to Routledge Inc., 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001, USA, COLLOQUIAL CD-ROMs Multimedia Language Courses Available in: Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish Colloquial Portuguese of Brazil The Complete Course for Beginners Esmenia Simées Osborne, Joao Sampaio and Barbara McIntyre London and New YorkFirst published 1997 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London ECAP 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Reprinted with corrections 1999 Reprinted 2000, 2002 Second edition first published 2002 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group (© 1997, 2002 Esmenia Simoes Osborne, Joao Sampaio, Barbara McIntyre ‘The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would be glad to hear from any who have not been traced. wdleigh, Devon ‘Typeset in Times by Florence Production Ltd, Illustrations by Matthew Crabbe Printed and bound in England by Biddles Limited, Guildford and King’s Lyan All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reprinted or reproduced ‘or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, 6 in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-415-27679-9 (book) ISBN 0-415-27680-2 (cassettes) ISBN 0-415-28090-7 (CD) ISBN 0-415-27681-0 (pack) Contents Introduction A guide to pronunciation 1 Oi, tudo bem? Hi. is everything OK? 2 Gosto de viajar J like to travel 3 Parabéns! Congratulations! 4 Desculpe! Excuse me! 5 Posso ver . Can I see. 6 Uma passagem de ida para Ouro Préto A single to Ouro Préto 7 Nao me sinto bem I don’t feel well 8 Nao desligue . . . Hold on 9 O fim de semana ‘The weekend 10 Moro num apartamento live in a flat 11 Encontramo-nos mais tarde? Shall we meet later? 12 Exmo. Senhor ... Dear Sir 27 & 81 15 134 150 170 186 202