Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazil) Online Subscription

Rosetta Stone is a top language learning provider which now additionally delivers its Portuguese (Brazil) course over the Web. The Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazil) online subscription teaches you as much language content as the CDs, and has a number of advantages over the boxed version such as instant availability, a smaller price tag, and the absence of lengthy installations. All you need to subscribe to the Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazil) online course is your computer’s Web browser, audio input and output devices, preferably a headset, and a small piece of speech recognition software which is downloaded from the vendor’s web site. The language learning solution teaches you Portuguese using immersion, which is Portuguese in Portuguese, without formal grammar. Three levels of Brazilian Portuguese take you from the basic level to intermediate skills by means of reading, speaking, listening and writing activities.

Each level of Portuguese (Brazil) contains four units which are divided into four lessons. A lesson starts with a core lesson, followed by a number of activities and exercises to help retain what you have learned and to introduce new words and phrases in every-day situations. A method called adaptive recall brings up repetition exercises depending on your performance, and you will conclude each Portuguese (Brazil) lesson by practicing your skills in a real life scenario. A lesson’s total duration is about the length of a book’s chapter, yet you can always sit and do an exercise when you have about fifteen minutes of spare time and access to a computer with an Internet connection, such as during a lunch break at work perhaps. Portuguese is likely to be difficult for English speakers without knowledge of a Latin language, yet the Rosetta Stone online learning solution makes it easy for everybody to start learning, and you will be rewarded with competency in one of the most beautiful languages on the world – Brazilian Portuguese.

Please find all details regarding the three levels of the Rosetta Stone online language learning solution on the next page; the rated sections Outcome, Tips & Tricks as well as Price to Value are located on page three of this review.

The first level of the Portuguese (Brazil) language learning solution features the topics: language basics, greetings and introductions, work and school as well as shopping. In a typical exercise of the first unit you are being taught A menina está comendo (The girl is eating), and to help you started with the Brazilian language you practice syllable pronunciation, e.g. me-ni-no, menino (boy). In the second unit’s activities you start asking basic questions like Qual e seu nome? (What is your name?).

A good example of the work and school topic of unit three is Onde você trabalha? (Where do you work?); be assured that Rosetta Stone activities are neither boring nor overly simple. If you don’t pay attention to the imagery which is giving you leads for answering an exercise correctly you may make a wrong association and see a red cross instead of a green tick. After the fourth unit of level one you will be able to make comparisons such as A bicicleta roxa custa menos que a bicicleta amarela (The purple bicycle is cheaper than the yellow bicycle).

In level 2 of the Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazil) online subscription you acquire new language skills in the topics: travel, past and future, friends and social life as well as dining and vacation. You will be taught to ask question like Aonde eles vão? (Where do they go?), or, in the second unit, O que vocês estudaram ontem? (What did you study yesterday?). The following sample taken from a dialog in the 3rd unit is very useful in Brazil: Os músicos estão tocando no restaurante (The musicians are playing in the restaurant), and the same is true for A mulher está comendo frango no almoço (The woman is eating chicken for lunch) found in unit four, because the Brazilians love music, and eating chicken in Brazil is as common as eating hamburgers in the United States.

However, please note that the Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazil) online subscription does not teach any cultural behavior or habits, or information on topics like Samba and Carnival. All depictions of places and faces are a mix from all over the world along with a universal set of phrases and neutral vocabulary in a conversational language style.

Level 3 of the language learning solution teaches you Portuguese (Brazil) in the four units home and health, life and world, everyday things as well as places and events. In activities including, but not limited to, multiple choice and drag and drop exercises you learn phrases like O gato está no sofá e a mulher esta ao lado do sofá (The cat is sitting on the sofa and the woman is beside the sofa), or, in unit two, Vai chover daqui a pouco? (Will it be raining soon?). Being able to ask about the weather can be important in Brazil, where, if the sun doesn’t shine, it may rain heavily and you may not be able to travel by coach – the number one means of transport.

Se eu tiver dinheiro suficiente, comprarei isto (If I had enough money I would buy it) has been taken from unit three to demonstrate that once you have reached that point in the Portuguese course you will be able to make such conditional clauses automatically without thinking. Last but not least you will learn about making arrangements for accommodation and travel, exemplified by Eu gostaria de fazer uma reserva (I would like to make a reservation) toward the end of the course in the unit places and events. The milestone number five in the fourth unit of level 3 concludes the Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazil) online course in a scenario featuring a couple going for a walk and talking to people.