Being my very first book in Portuguese, I found intimidating the first section: the portuguese alphabet. Seven pages of rules about different sounds for the same letter plus a collection of strange diphthongs. When I finally made it to the "general expressions", I had already forgot all the rules. Listening to native speakers is great. Each sentence is repeated twice with a pause between so you can say it loud. But the sentences are spoken too fast and the pause becomes too short for a first timer. Even though all sentences are accompained by an easy phonetic spelling, not always the native speakers pronounce them the way they were written. There also some brief… Read more
