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Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone. The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life. Learn Naturally Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and understand without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability. Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it. Engage Interactively Get feedback to move forward. You learn ideal by doing, and you’ll apply what you have learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your (more…)

Enjoy learning the Portuguese you need! Finally an entertaining, non-intimidating way for you to build talking proficiency! This Portuguese course covers 10 key situations–from greetings and buying food and drink to shopping, asking for directions, and visiting locals–and includes two dialogues per topic. The explanations and instructions are easy and bite-size, making this a very accessible program for your on-the-go lifestyle. You can also visit teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don’t have much time, do not worry–this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

About the Author

Sue Tyson-Ward has written a number of books on Portuguese language and culture and has acted as a consultant to BBC TV.

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The Superior Portuguese subliminal CD is designed to super charge your brain to learn Portuguese faster and easier than ever imagined. Most people struggle when they try to learn Portuguese, but now you dont have to because subliminal programming can prime your brain to acquire the language rapidly.
All you’ve to do is continue the same Portuguese classes or reading material that youre studying now and listen to this CD to accelerate your learning ability. It wont teach, but it will turn you into an Portuguese learning machine.
This CD contains 6 ten minute subliminal sessions toselect from. Each session contains the same subliminal suggestionscarefully crafted by hypnotist Alex Armani, CHT. You get toselect which track(s) to listen to!
Successful people across the world are using subliminal programming to help them correct bad habits, improve their health, and acquire new languages faster than ever possible before. Subliminal programming means you will hear NO AU (more…)

Large 3.5 color LCD screen. 70,000 English explanations with the WordNet Princeton English Dictionary. Unique Users Dictionary lets you create personalized word lists. Advanced Speech Recognition. True Voice human pronunciation for words and phrases. Pre-recorded words list provides access to spoken dictionary entries. Talking Picture Dictionary with pronunciation for all words. 56,000 entry Audio PhraseBook for commonlycame across situations. Patented Language Teacher system with hands-free, eyes-free U-LearnTM Car Tutor. Unbeatable Word-of-the-day vocabulary builder. Full Text Translation functionality. Spell-Check, History and Slang Lock options. Smart Virtual Keyboard with Audio interface. Vector UltimaTM Spell-checker and MorphofinderTM to help find the words you need. Customizable English interface with support for the C-Pen OCR Handheld Scanner. English Grammar, Irregular Verbs, Idioms, and SAT 200/5000 vocabulary builders. Linguistic Crossword, Pockets, Spell (more…)

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“Learn basic conversation fast with . . . the all-audio Pimsleur Method series.”– Business 2.0 Magazine”Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in talking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed.”– Audiofile Magazine”Extremely accessible . . . each section within the lessons is short enough to hold our attention, and there’s enough repetition to teach even those whoThink about themselves slow learners . . . Pimsleur programs are extremely thorough and simple to use — quite lively!”– Boston Herald”I tried other language programs withTiny success . . . This is the best by far!”– Pamela A. Mitchell, Pilot International Society of Women Airline Pilots

The 10-lesson (5-CD) Compact course introduces the customer to the language and culture of Portugual. Customers will love the experience of acquiring the essential grammar and vocabulary of European Portuguese during the spoken practice sessions. It i (more…)

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“This trenchant second volume sets a new standard for reflecting on the Portuguese world empire during the early modern period. Covering the Lusitanian presence on five continents, it pays attention simultaneously to political decisions of opposing court factions in Portugal, to the leading role of noble captains and agents working inside and outside formal colonial institutions, and to their involvement in a variety of local cultures. As a result, Anthony Disney is able toaccentuate the centrality of Portuguese colonial situations as cultural hybrids.” -Diogo Ramada Curto, European University Institute, Florence and Universidade Nova de Lisboa”Anthony Disney has provided in this impressive two-volume survey of the history of Portugal and its overseas empire to the beginning of the nineteenth century a work of synthesis that has long been needed. Up-to-date in its scholarship, lucid and coherent in its exposition, his account, skillfully blending narrative and a (more…)

The most eagerly awaited event in the editorial cycle at TIME Magazine is always the selection of the cover. The ideal covers capture the zeitgeist of the week while surviving the judgment of history. As browsing this collection of TIME cover art prints shows, TIME is as good a record as any of who and what mattered over the past 80-plus years. And so when TIME captures a person, an event or a trend within its iconic red borders, the magazine is adding that extra dose of significance that no other publication can quite match. That is one reason why the original artwork for more than 800 TIME covers now resides in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Thanks to an breathtaking roster of artists, photographers and graphic designers, from TIME’s earliest charcoal drawings of cover subjects to its later black-and-white photography to the more recent paintings and stunning color photography, TIME covers have always been, sometimes quite literally, works of great art. And, (more…)

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“In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, this book provides a fresh and much-needed perspective integrating metropolitan and colonial Portuguese histories. In fact, this analytical combination of national and imperial dimensions iscompletelyoriginal in the panorama of Portuguese histories where nearly all the works available in English tend to concentrate exclusively on overseas expansion.” -Diogo Ramada Curto, European University Institute, Florence and Universidade Nova de Lisboa”Anthony Disney has provided in this impressive two-volume survey of the history of Portugal and its overseas empire to the beginning of the nineteenth century a work of synthesis that has long been needed. Up-to-date in its scholarship, lucid and coherent in its exposition, his account, skillfully blending narrative and analysis, will immediately take its place as the essential starting-point for all those interested in the origins and chara (more…)

This informative, concise, and engagingly written work provides the most up-to-date history of Portugal, current through 1999, and gives a full picture of the political, social, cultural, and economic influences that shaped the history of Portugal. Covering the period from Portugal’s early conception as a nation through its long history, with emphasis on the dramatic period of the last several decades, this volume culminates with the demise of the Salazar dictatorship and the independence of its colonies. Complete with a timeline for simple reference to events, brief biographies of important people, lists of monarchs and heads of state, and a bibliographic essay, it is the best companion for the student or interested reader.

About the Author

JAMES M. ANDERSON is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. He has spent many years in Portugal and Spain both as a Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of Canada Council and other grant (more…)

Professor Saraiva’s multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebratedscholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume HistoriaConcisa, it proved a run-away ideal seller in Portugal, and the televisionseries that went with it became a chart-topper. His latest book, producedespecially for Carcanet’s Aspects of Portugal series, is a history of hiscountry, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight andwith non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind.    To this main text Ian Robertson, author of the well-known BlueGuide to Portugal, has added a historical gazeteer, brief biographies,chronological tables, maps and other elements which make this an essentialCompanion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief andlucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will findrewarding.The book is generously illustrated.

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