Oxford Picture Dictionary English-Brazilian Portuguese: Bilingual Dictionary for Brazilian Portuguese speaking teenage and adult students of English (Oxford Picture Dictionary 2E) 2nd Edition

Its so hard to find GOOD Brazilian Portuguese language resources... If you're struggling to find a definitive textbook/guide or if you simply want to take your vocabulary to the next level: THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!This book and "How to say anything in Portuguese" (which is out of print, I believe, making it VERY expensive on Amazon but totally worth paying $40-50 for a serious student of the language) are simply the two BEST vocabulary/expression resources for learning Portuguese at an intermediate/advanced level. I would say I am an intermediate level student. I know all the basics for food, household items, clothese, etc, but since I live part-time in Brazil, I need to take my vocabulary to the level of fluency.The book is clearly organized with sections on nearly every aspect of daily life from "travel" to "food/cooking" to "technology" to "mailing letters/packages" to "Family reunions" to "fixing/buying a car" this book has everything. The labeling and organizing of the book isn't even the best part-- its the great, highly detailed drawings to accompany and identify the great specific terms it offers. For someone who need to communicate in real life situations, you need to know how to go to a computer repair store and say specific terms like "usb port" or "external harddrive" OR go to a grocery store and decipher the labels in Portuguese that identify the different types of meats and cheeses (Halibut, swiss cheese, rainbow trout!) OR pick up a perscription medicine and read the directions, ie "take with a meal" OR say to a tailor that you need your pants hemmed or let out. For the serious student, you need this reference around just in case you need to say "Parking garage" "health insurance card" "Orthodontist" "Frying pan" or "Community college" or a host of other words a part of daily life you won't find in a translation dictionary.That being said, this book would be nice if youre a beginner to the language or aren't seeking fluency, but it could definitely be overwhelming and isn't necessary at that level of learning. But for someone seeking fluency, someone who travels to Brazil often, or someone who is going to live in Brazil, this book should be a required reading!*** UPDATE: This book works both ways for Brazilians learning English and for English-Speakers learning Brazilian Portuguese. However, you can tell the original intention of the book was for BRAZILIANS to learn ENGLISH. I realized that after studying the book a while because I noticed many words/concepts are American and don't have an equivalent in Brazil (ie: Donut shop, Diner) however, the book does not contain Brazilian items not found in the US (ie Acerola, Graviola, CPF). In addition, the book has a small section of discussion questions to converse about and these are all in English, covering basic English concepts, with no Portuguese translation.Also, I have found that the Portuguese words in the book always use the Sao Paulo preferred term rather than the term from other regions such as Rio (ie, in Sao Paulo bus stops are Parada de onibus, but in Rio they are Ponto de onibus.) But these are just occasional words.

Multilingual is multi-talented!!! We have a new English as a Second language program at the High school, so we wanted some books for our other students to use to learn how to communicate.

It is meant more for brazilian learners of English because the excericises are in English, but because it have the definite article of the Portuguese words, you are able to learn the gender of words and thus it works great for learners of Portuguese, too! Definitely the best one yet! I have found others but they are defulted to European Portuguese which can cause misunderstandings, so I love this one! Plus it gives senerios of everyday things that people in the US do, so you are easily able to find specific topics and be able to talk about your life in the US that you won't find in other teaching books like going to the DMV/Secretary of state, and things similar to that.

This dictionary kind of reminds me of a really good language book you would give students in about jr. High or high school to teach them a new language. The pictures are beautiful and the book is easy to navigate. I wish they had a second one after you learn what is in this one

It is a dictionary and it has topic related words in both english and portuguese. its a good buy if you want to learn more words. I would recommend to buy it to increase your vocabulary in a new language.

The best of the best book to help Brazilian people to learn vocabulary in English. Thank you, I loved it.

I think there's no better dictionary than this for people learning English. It's more than an average dictionary. It really shows you the meaning of the words with beautiful and clear graphics and much more. I purchased this for Portuguese speaking learners, but it's available in many others languages.

With this dictionary, we in our family now learn three languages! What? - you might ask - this is bilingual dictionary! Of course, but ...I mysef learn my portuguese, my wife english and my kids practice with it our native language by describing what he sees in pictures, that are so clear and nice coloured! Well made, I reccomend it.