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PROPER PORTUGUESE PRONUNCIATION: Antonio Simões, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has co-authored “Pronouncing Brazilian Portuguese,” a textbook to help students learn to properly speak the language as it is spoken in Brazil. As many students of Brazilian Portuguese speak Spanish and/or French as well as English, the book relates Portuguese sounds to their English, Spanish and/or French equivalents in order to make learning the Portuguese sounds easier.

The book also includes an appendix with nearly 7,000 words. The list is in an eight-column format, and each column shows the appropriate pronunciation, relating spellings to sounds. The book also contains a CD-ROM with 200 exercises read by native Brazilian speakers. Simões authored the book with Richard V. Teschner of the University of Texas-El Paso.