Portuguese Memory Book

<p>Mnemonics is an age-old device for remembering names numbers and many other things. <i>The Portuguese Memory Book</i> by William F. Harrison and Dorothy Welker makes use of this reliable memory help in a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful sardonic touching and heroic to help both students and independent learners acquire and remember Portuguese vocabulary.</p> <p>The mnemonic jingles present both the sound of the  Portuguese word (indicated by syllables in underlined boldface type) and its English meaning (given by a word or phrase in boldface type):</p> <p>noite (f.) night</p> <p>Don't an<b>noy Chi</b>huahuas in the <b>night</b>.<br> If you ignore their bark you'll feel their bite.</p> <p>This innovative approach to vocabulary building is simple effective and entertaining. The authors also include a general pronunciation guide to Brazilian Portuguese particularly to the Carioca dialect of Rio de Janeiro.</p>