US $74.95

In a moment when the Brazilian economy is booming and the demand for learning the Portuguese language is at its peak, especially for professional adults, Working Portuguese for Beginners is a welcome addition to the editorial market, filling a lacuna for business Portuguese as spoken in Brazil. This book with CD-ROM is part of the Working Language series, designed for English-speaker business professionals interested in acquiring the basic communication skills of a foreign language in order to function in a business or professional setting. The materials for Working Portuguese were initially developed for the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, for students in a course that combined classroom time with remote learning methods, culminating in a two-week trip to Brazil. According to the authors, Working Portuguese can be used as materials for a regular university course, in which the materials can be divided into two or three academic semesters; as a combination of face-to-face instruction and remote learning, in the case of busy professionals; or as self-pacing materials for self-taught students. In any of these cases, it is expected that students do much of the learning outside of the classroom (estimated to take two or three hours per week) by studying each lesson’s dialogues, new vocabulary, grammar, and cultural sections. To this end, Working Portuguese includes a CD with audio for the vocabulary, the dialogues, and the exercises for each lesson. The audi