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Title: Not better than a course in person
Review: This series is okay. However, if your local college offers Brazilian portuguese (and you have the time), I think it would serve you better and may also be less expensive. When I was an undergrad, I took several courses in portuguese. It has been 7 years since I spoke the language (and even then I was not extremely fluent tho' could hold a conversation, understand, and picked up the accent). I have started to begin learning it again. But, the tapes don't give you the immersion that you can get from a classroom setting where, if you advance enough, you are forced to think in the language...not just repeat memorized phrases...and you usually have a lot of classmates who grew up using the language. The tapes don't teach you (nor do they profess to, I believe) how to say a completely new phrase using the words you've learned....that is, how to translate what you want to say in english to what you want to say in portugues.I don't think this series is worth [very much].
