While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Brazilian books.
1. The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Phrase Book: Learn Basic Brazilian Portuguese Phrases – For Any Situation! (2013)
The ultimate phrase guide for travel, business, and more! “I’ll have the chicken dish, please.” “How do you get to the theater?” “Let’s set up a meeting.” Packed with everything you’ll need to understand–and be understood b…
2. Living Language Brazilian Portuguese, Complete Edition: Beginner through advanced course, including 3 coursebooks, 9 audio CDs, and free online learning (2013)
Brazilian Portuguese, Complete Edition is a unique multimedia course that takes you from a beginner to an advanced level in one convenient package. At the core of Brazilian Portuguese, Complete Edition is the Living Language Method™, based on linguistic science, proven techniques, and over 65 years of experience. Our method teaches you the whole language, so you can express yourself, not just recite memorized words or scripts. Millions have learned with Living Language®. Now it’s your turn. • 46 lessons, additional review exercises, culture notes, and a…
3. Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Brazilian Portuguese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Portuguese Stories) (2019)
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes — it’s not entertaining, useful or motivating for the student at all, and many soon give up on learning at all!In this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-read, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the…
4. Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar (Modern Grammars) (2017)
Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Brazilian Portuguese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B is carefully organized around language functions covering all major communication situations such as establishing identity, making contact and expressing likes, dislikes and preferences. With a strong emphasis on contemporary usage, all grammar points and functions are richly illustrated with examples. Building on the…
5. Brazilian Rhythms for Drumset: Book & CD (Manhattan Music Publications – Drummers Collective Series) (1993)
A solid and extremely valuable guide to applying traditional Brazilian rhythms to drumset. It delves into the complexities of Brazilian rhythms and also helps explain the background and influences of the rich musical history of Brazil. Includes samba, partito alto, bossa nova, baiao, caterete, maracatu, marcha, and frevo….
6. The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, Write, and Understand Basic Portuguese in No Time (2007)
The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD makes Brazilian Portuguese a breeze to learn! Author , provides you with step-by-step instruction in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Learn how to: This helpful guide includes an audio CD with pronunciation guides, extensive vocabulary lists, and interactive exercises. Packed with dialogue examples, self-tests, and English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English dictionaries, The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD will have you speaking–and understanding–Portuguese in no time….
7. The Brazilians (1996)
A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor—these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians, a monumental book on one of the most colorful and paradoxical places on earth.Once one of the strongest market economies in the world, Brazil now struggles to emerge from a deep economic and social crisis, the latest and deepest nose-dive in a giddy roller-coaster ride that Brazilians have experienced over the past three decades. Page examines Brazil in the context of this current crisis and the events…
8. The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil (2008)
This title includes discussions of developments in samba and other key genres, the rise of female singer-songwriters, works by established artists like Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil and the mixing of bossa with electronica….
9. Brazilian Student Activities Manual for Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language (2012)
There is a version and Portuguese version of the . The organization of the follows that of the main text, providing further practice of each chapter’s vocabulary and grammatical structures through sentence-building and completion exercises, fill-ins, and art- and realia-cued activities. Reading and writing activities include strategies for improving reading and writing skills. The audio recorded passages are followed by comprehension-check activities. The video based activities test students’ comprehension of the video and invite…
10. Mastering The 21 Immutable Principles Of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Ultimate Handbook for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Students (2015)
“On ‘Mastering The 21 Immutable Principles Of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu’, Paulo Guillobel wears a hat of a scholar and proves that, in more than 26 years of practicing, he has not only trained, taught and competed at high level, but most important of all, has studied the art thoroughly. Every student, teacher and master will surely take advantage of the knowledge carefully organized in this book. This is by far the best Jiu-Jitsu book I ever read.” -Luca Atalla, Vice President and Chief Editor of Gracie Magazine Until this book, there has never been a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu book that has comprehensively explained the most fundamental and…
11. Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer (2015)
In the 1980s a poor farmer's son from Recife, Brazil, joined the Brazilian navy and began selling cocaine. After his arrest in Rio de Janeiro he spent the next eight years in prison, where he joined the Comando Vermelho criminal faction and eventually became one of its leaders. Robert Gay tells this young man's dramatic and captivating story in Bruno. In his shockingly candid interviews with Gay, Bruno provides many insights into the criminal world in which he lived: details of day-to-day prison life; the inner workings of the Brazilian drug trade; the structure…
Best Brazilian Books That Will Hook You
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Genesis and download some brazilian books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Brazilian Medicinal Plants By: Luzia Valentina Modolo
Author(s): Luzia Valentina Modolo, Mary Ann Foglio
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Year: 2020, Size: 50 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2439835
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics
Author(s): Barry Ames
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2019, Size: 10 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2288636
Queerly Cosmopolitan: Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City
Author(s): Timothy Eugene Murphy
Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2019, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2309470
Money, Autonomy and Citizenship: The Experience of the Brazilian Bolsa Família
Author(s): Alessandro Pinzani, Walquiria Leão Rego
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 1 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2309732
Proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian Technology Symposium: Emerging Trends and Challenges in Technology
Author(s): Yuzo Iano, Rangel Arthur, Osamu Saotome, Vania Vieira Estrela, Hermes José Loschi
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 15 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2310981
The Brazilian Left in the 21st Century: Conflict and Conciliation in Peripheral Capitalism
Author(s): Vladimir Puzone, Luis Felipe Miguel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2019, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2354255
Coastal and Marine Environmental Education
Author(s): Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes, Flavio Augusto de Souza Berchez
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2354526
Agile Methods: 9th Brazilian Workshop, WBMA 2018, Campinas, Brazil, October 4, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Author(s): Graziela Simone Tonin, Bernardo Estácio, Alfredo Goldman, Eduardo Guerra
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 6 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2355066
International Integration of the Brazilian Economy
Author(s): Elias C. Grivoyannis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2355795
Startups and Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Markets: A Brazilian Perspective
Author(s): Moacir de Miranda Oliveira, Jr., Fernanda Ribeiro Cahen, Felipe Mendes Borini
Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2019, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2406990
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really chart-busters according to USA Today, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.