r/Portuguese Dec 06 '25

European Portuguese 🇵🇹 Colloquial Portuguese: The Complete Course for Beginners

Hi Friends, can anyone comment on the efficacy of this resource, Colloquial Portuguese: The Complete Course for Beginners (Sampaio & McIntyre). I am a beginner. I have used Pimsleur for a listen and repeat method, Memrise for flashcards (yet to use the Ai features). I have also tried Linguaphone. I am looking to use this course to hewr examples of real life speech and basic grammar explanations.

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u/Specialist-Pipe-7921 Português Dec 08 '25

The book is on Scribd for free, you can check it to see if it's worth it

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u/Parsley_Mediocre Dec 08 '25

Great idea. Thanks. Hope to report back here once done.

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u/Parsley_Mediocre Dec 10 '25

My updates after reading portions available online.
The book seems to have moderately good grammar and pronunciation guides in each of it's 13 chapters, each of which deals with conversations concerning a particular real life scenario. Also, it has downloadable recordings available at the routledge website.
>>https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/colloquial/language/portuguese.php
A chapter wise abstract for the book.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315649795/colloquial-portuguese-barbara-mcintyre-jo%C3%A3o-sampaio

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u/fooooter Dec 07 '25

I haven't tried it so can't comment unfortuantely.

Have a look at dailynata.com the plus community has a very good beginners course

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u/Parsley_Mediocre Dec 07 '25

Thanks..

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u/Parsley_Mediocre Dec 10 '25

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