The Everything Essential Brazilian Portuguese Book: All You Need to Learn Brazilian Portuguese in No Time!

1. Introducing the Portuguese Language --
Why Learn Portuguese? --
Portuguese: A Romance Language --
Similarities to Spanish --
European Portuguese Versus Brazilian Portuguese --
Tips on Learning Portuguese --
Recognizing What You Already Know --
2. Sounds of Portuguese --
Portuguese Alphabet --
Accent Marks --
Closer Look at the Portuguese Consonants --
Stress Pattern in Portuguese --
Oral and Nasal Vowels --
Typing in Portuguese --
3. Beginning Conversation --
Greetings --
Talking on the Phone --
Quick Introductions --
Exercise: What to Say? --
Saying Goodbye --
Other Vocabulary You May Need --
3. Nouns, Articles, and Contractions --
Nouns: Persons, Places, and Things --
Practicing with Gender --
From Nouns to Pronouns --
Definite and Indefinite Articles --
Demonstratives --
Common Contractions --
5. Who Are You? Introducing Ser --
Expressing Identity: Ser --
Place of Origin --
Characteristics --
Occupations --
Personal Relationships --
Numbers and Ser --
6. How Are You? Introducing Estar --
States of Being: Estar --
Physical States --
Mental States --
Location --
Estar in the Present Progressive Tense --
Ser or Estar? --
Agreement Rules --
Plurals in Nouns and Adjectives --
7. Describing People and Things in Portuguese --
From Nouns to Adjectives --
Order of Modifiers --
Making Comparisons --
Superlatives: The Best of the Best --
Ownership and Possession --
8. Vocabulary of Numbers --
Cardinal Numbers --
Ordinal Numbers --
Days of the Week --
Talking about Time --
Months and Seasons --
Practice with Numbers --
9. First Conjugation Verbs --
Regular -AR Verbs --
Verbs with Prepositions --
Vocabulary: Going Places --
Vocabulary: Routine Activities --
10. Second Conjugation and Beyond --
Regular -ER and -IR Verbs --
Special -IR Verbs --
Exercise: Regular and Special Verbs --
To Go and To Come: Ir and Vir --
To Have: Ter --
Vocabulary: Family Relations --
11. Important Verbs to Know --
To Be or To Exist: Haver --
To Make or To Do: Fazer --
Expressions with Fazer --
To Know: Saber and Conhecer --
More Special Verbs --
12. Verb Tenses: an Overview --
Present Tense --
Preterite Tense --
Imperfect Tense --
Preterite Versus the Imperfect --
Future Tenses --
Conditional Tense --
Practice with the Future and Conditional Tenses --
13. More Verbs --
Using Two Verbs Together --
Past Participles --
Passive Voice --
Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs --
Reflexive Verbs with Prepositions --
Practice with Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs --
14. Negative Words and Constructions --
How to Say No --
Two Negatives Make a Negative --
Common Negative Expressions --
Practice with Negatives --
Positive Versus Negative --
15. Questions and Exclamations --
How to Ask Questions --
Interrogative Words --
Question Tags --
Exclamations --
16. Future and Other Tenses --
Present Versus the Future or the Preterite --
Personal Infinitive --
Impersonal Assertions --
Discussing the Weather --
Vocabulary of Clothes --
17. Imperative and Subjunctive Constructions --
Imperative Constructions --
Introducing the Subjunctive --
Past Subjunctive --
Future Subjunctive --
Indicative or Subjunctive? --
Practice with the Subjunctive Forms --
Expression with the Verb Dar --
18. Carnaval, Samba, Feijoada, and Futebol --
Brazilian Carnaval --
Music of Brazil --
Futebol (Soccer) in Brazil: Five-Time World Champions --
Culinary Expressions --
What\'s on Brazilian TV? --
Brazilian Cinema --
Cultural Review: What\'s the Word? --
19. Means of Communication --
In Person --
Communication by Mail --
Making Phone Calls --
Vocabulary: Ficar, Tornar-se, Fazer-se (to Become) --
More Vocabulary: Expressions with Estar com and Ter --
Communication Practice --
20. Travelling to Samba-Land --
Getting Your Papers in Order --
Hotel Reservations --
Getting Real --
Where to Go? --
Brasilia: The Modern Capital City --
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo: Big Metropoles --
Northeast of Brazil: Culture and Tradition --
Florianopolis and Other Southern Belles --
Survival Phrases: Don\'t Leave Home Without Them --
\"Travel to Brazil\" Quiz --
Appendix A. English-to-Portuguese Glossary --
Appendix B. Portuguese-to-English Glossary --
Appendix C. Answer Key.