Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook

by Robert Landon and Lonely Planet Phrasebooks

Book Overview

There's more to Portugal than bacalhau and porto , but how to get in deeper? Despite crazy rumors, you can't get drunk, speak French and expect to be understood in Portugal. Open this book and take... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1740592131
• ISBN13: 9781740592130
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 3.8" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Great travel book

If you really study the pronumciation examples and then use the phrases you'll go far!

Excellent reference that fits in your pocket

This is a wonderful little phrase book, which is handy, yet expansive (stretching beyond the simple "transport", "food" and "necessities", to go into suggested phrases for more esoteric areas including romantic encounters). The book also includes a short (but useful) dictionary at the end. Beware, though, that the iPhone app by the same name(also by Lonely Planet), while more expensive, is far, far inferior, both in terms of usefulness and depth. If you are travelling to Portugal (or Brazil, or any other Portugese-speaking country) grab the printed version (a week in advance, so you can read through it) and off you go.

good buy

good book, does just what it says it does. Not to learn the language, but great for traveling and quick reference.

If you're going to Portugal, this is the only book you'll need.

Lonely planet never fails to provide the best travel books. This tiny book provides a wealth of useful information. What I like about this book is that it focuses specifically on communicating in Portugal, rather than Brazil. It is well organized into several handy cagetories such as directions, shopping, lodging, etc. The front contains standard info such as numbers, days of the week, and survival phrases, while the back contains a mini-dictionary. The best part about this book is the fact that it not only gives the Portuguese phrase with its English equivalent, it also provides a spelled-out phonetic pronunciation. Out of all the study material I have, these simple phonetic spell-outs have been the greatest help in my pronunciation, and I now have nearly perfected my portuguese accent. I've seen similar Portuguese pocket books, and they just don't compare to this one.