Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Brazilian Portuguese the fun way!
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- Create Date：2021-08-14 06:54:03
- Update Date：2025-09-06
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- Author：Olly Richards
- ISBN：1529302803
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Summary
"Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively。 I love his work - and you will too！" - Barbara Oakley， PhD， Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult learners of Brazilian Portuguese。Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate level， designed to give a sense of achievement， a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment！ Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference （CEFR） for languages， these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading。
What does this book give you？ - Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres， from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun， while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary
- Controlled language at your level to help you progress confidently
- Realistic spoken dialogues， to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
- Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally， in a stress-free way - Beautiful illustrations accompanying each story， to set the scene and support your understanding
- Pleasure！ Research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language， you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard！' 'I don't understand！' Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy， these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress， including: - A glossary for bolded words in each chapter
- Full plot summary
- A bilingual word list
- Comprehension questions after each chapter。 As a result， you will be able to focus on enjoying reading， delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language， without ever feeling overwhelmed。 From science fiction to fantasy， to crime and thrillers， Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners will make learning Brazilian Portuguese easy and enjoyable。
Reviews
Linda
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I've been a fan of graded readers for decades， even when they'd fallen out of fashion in language learning materials， so I was excited to find an easy reader for Portuguese at my local library。 This is a decent graded reader - or maybe just an easy reader， not really graded - but not stellar。 It has some issues。 Some are problems that it shares with most other books of its type: the stories are mostly inane and uninteresting。 I can grin and bear it for the language practice， though。My biggest is I've been a fan of graded readers for decades， even when they'd fallen out of fashion in language learning materials， so I was excited to find an easy reader for Portuguese at my local library。 This is a decent graded reader - or maybe just an easy reader， not really graded - but not stellar。 It has some issues。 Some are problems that it shares with most other books of its type: the stories are mostly inane and uninteresting。 I can grin and bear it for the language practice， though。My biggest issues are:* No native speakers seem to have been involved in this book in any meaningful way。 I have to wonder whether I'm learning authentic Portuguese here or if this book suffers from translation-ese。* This is a series in which every book is just a translation。 If you want to read Richards' Russian reader， for example， it's the exact same stories。 Aside from the recycled content bothering me， because he did it this way， it's super obvious that this is just fill-in-the-blank content。 It's not authentic， culturally appropriate material for each language， it's just churned out and smoothed over to fit the language on the cover。* Olly Richards is one of the current "cool kids" in the online polyglot community， so publishers who sell language materials are banking on him to make money。 I can't blame them for wanting to make money， but before you buy his products， think carefully whether he's really the best person to create language learning materials。 Wouldn't you be better off with a Portuguese book written by Portuguese native speakers or people who live in Lusophone countries？* So many pedagogical issues I can't even list them all here， including no apparent concern for word frequency。 Graded readers and easy readers are typically built around difficulty levels， which are generally determined for any given language by word frequency and grammatical features。 Among other things， he can't possibly have considered word frequency when creating these books because they wouldn't be the same for every language。Overall， it's better than nothing， and it has the benefit of being easily available in the US。 I think I'd be better off ordering more authentic materials from Brazil or Portugal， however。 。。。more
Tnb
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The stories are weird。 There are simple books that area available and translated that would do a better job。
Julian
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