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What our customer's say!

"Helpful grammar review", This book is a very fast read and is a quick way to gain insight into the grammar of the Portuguese language.

"Especially good for spanish speakers", Detailed and especially good for spanish speakers who start with a huge vocab advantage but who fall into the trap of "pidgin" portuguese (or portugnol) and want to snap OUT!!

"Portuguese language", Portuguese grammar is terribly difficult. Though I am a native speaker, and have studied in Brazil, I was never really able to master the grammar rules. This book came handy to me.

"The Best Portuguese Grammar I've Seen", "Essential Portuguese Grammar" is the best book about Portuguese grammar I've seen. I studied Spanish before I decided to study Portuguese, so it was a lot easier to absorb the information in this book. If you've never studied a foreign language before, you may want to brush on your English grammar first.

Here is a list of the items in this book:

Introduction
Word Order
How to Form Questions
Nouns and Articles
Adjectives
Adverbs
Comparisons of Adjectives and Adverbs
Expressing Posession
Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Negatives
"Que"
Prepositions (para and por)
Verbs and Verbs Tenses

There are more sub-sections in the book, but there are too many to list here. Portuguese and Spanish grammar have something in common. Students of both languages have trouble understanding certain grammatical concepts: the written accents, ser/estar, para/por, imperfect/preterit, and the subjunctive. However, Portuguese still uses the future subjunctive, which is hardly ever used in modern Spanish.

Brandon Simpson

"great (short!) grammar book", It's a great little grammar book that gives you all the essentials. It's especially helpful if you already know Spanish. It focuses on Brazilian Portuguese, but it clearly makes note of significant differences between Continental and Brazilian Portuguese.

The way that the book is organized was really easy to follow. Although, to really learn the rules, the same page must be reviewed or studied several times. I wish they made a workbook to go with it. Anyway, it's a great learner's tool and quick grammar reference.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Perfect Fit", My son, who is living in Portugal, requested a small, lightweight, grammar book that focused on European Portugese. He wrote to say that this one fits the bill perfectly.

"Excellent Reference. Even Better With Behind the Wheel Portuguese", I followed Amazon's recommendatiion and purchased Behind the Wheel Portuguese to accompany my Essential Portuguese Grammar (Dover Books on Language) by Alexander Da R. Prista and I'm happy I did.
Great and well written manual on the essential elements of Portuguese grammar.
Behind the Wheel Portuguese provides a magnificent and unequaled easy and fast way to speak the language quickly and to put into practice the grammar learned in Essential Portuguese Grammar.
Congratulations to both Dover books and to the author Alexander Da R. Prista for putting together such a brilliant and compact reference for such a reasonable price.






"Great for essentials of grammar", I quite like this grammar. It is very clear on the basics of Portuguese grammar. You get the feeling that it was written by someone who knows the language in depth and can extract what is essential but still give full information. The reference system makes different points easy to get to, when you use the book as a reference tool. You can also use it as a course book, though there are no exercises for practice. Perhaps it would be asking for too much in a book of this size. The information on verbs is also clear and fine but in my case I needed more. I have found a superb book on Portuguese verbs, another five star book. It is called 'Portuguese Verbs Explained An Essential Guide' and the author is Manuela Cook. If you want more than the Prista book has to say on verbs, I strongly recommend this one. Like Prista, this is an author who knows her Portuguese (and her English too)!

"Great for essentials of grammar", I quite like this grammar. It is very clear on the basics of Portuguese grammar. You get the feeling that it was written by someone who knows the language in depth and can extract what is essential but still give full information. The reference system makes different points easy to get to, when you use the book as a reference tool. You can also use it as a course book, though there are no exercises for practice. Perhaps it would be asking for too much in a book of this size. The information on verbs is also clear and fine but in my case I needed more. I have found a superb book on Portuguese verbs, another five star book. It is called 'Portuguese Verbs Explained An Essential Guide' and the author is Manuela Cook. If you want more than the Prista book has to say on verbs, I strongly recommend this one. Like Prista, this is an author who knows her Portuguese (and her English too)!

"Gives you a solid foundation but not an easy read", While "Essential Portuguese Grammar" gives learners of the language a solid review of grammar and serves as a handy "reference guide," for self-learners who are trying to grasp the language on their own, it is not well suited to beginners and is not meant to be an all-encompassing way to learn the language.

It's a great book for highly motivated self-learners or as a supplement to more substantive texts/audio books.