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Portuguese: Language Resources

Your guide to quality information resources for your research about Portuguese topics.

Writing in Portuguese

portuguese.typeit.org/ allows you to type Portuguese accents and characters without a Portuguese keyboard. You can edit your text in the box and then copy it to your document, email, etc.

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Dicionário ilustrado da língua portuguesa - Central Books PQ 5327 DH82, 2 vols

First Readers

Short stories are at PC 5071 ... e.g.

Contos universais - Central Books PC 5071 .P632 v.11 - by Tchekhov, Poe, Kafka, Maupassant, London, de Cervantes, & Voltaire

Contos brasileiros 3 - Central Books PC 5071 .P632 v.10 - by Azevedo, Pelligrini, Machado, Verissimo ...

Contos - Central Books PC 5071 .P632 v.09 - by Lispector, Antonio, Telles, de Assis ...

Some novels are at PQ 9697... e.g.

Dom Casmurro - Machado de Assis - Central Books PQ 9697 .M18 D6 2002

 Inocência - Viscount de Taunay - Central Books PQ 9697 .E7 I59 2002

Triste Fim do Policarpo Quaresma - Lima Barreto - Central Books PQ 9697 .L544 T7 2002

For more titles do a Subject search for Portuguese language readers.

Vocabulary and Grammar

Language Perfect: practise your vocabulary skills; get your login from your lecturer

- Learn the Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation with 100 Sounds. You Will Sound Like a Native!

Portuguese pronunciation guide - Forvo - Learn how to pronounce Portuguese words from native speakers.

Portuguese grammar - easy
 

iLoveLanguages has a comprehensive catalogue of language-related Internet resources for Portuguese.

Other helpful grammar and language resource books:

  • Bem-vindo! : a língua Portuguesa no mundo da comunicaçáo : Português para estrangeiros - Central Books PC 5067.3 .PS66 2000 +CDs
  • Ponto de encontro : Portuguese as a world language - textbook and CDs at Central Reserve PC 5075 .E5 PT35
  • Dicionário universal verbos mais gramática : língua Portuguesa - Central Books PC 5145 .DH86 2001
  • Falar-- ler-- escrever-- Portugues : um curso para estrangeiros - Central Books PC 5067.3 .LQ35 + 4 CDs
  • Brazilian Portugues
  • Portuguese grammar
  • Portuguese : An essential grammar - Central Books PC 5067.3 .HZ12 2003
  • The phonology of Portuguese - Central Books PC 5076 .MD52
  • The pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese - Central Books PC 5444 .GD78
  • Portuguese syntax :new comparative studies - Central Books PC 5201 .PU66
  • A frequency dictionary of Portuguese - Central Books PC 5348 .D767