Collins English<->Portuguese Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio app review: make your trips more comfortable and fun by learning basic Portuguese

Introduction

If you’re thinking of traveling to Portugal or any Portuguese-speaking country this year then this is one iPhone and iPad app that will provide to be an absolute must-have, providing hundreds of phrases that you’re likely to encounter on a daily basis while on your travels.

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I know a small amount of Spanish but Portuguese is one language that has never quite caught my interest for one reason or another. Either way, I can definitely see how the application of this resource will come in very handy for many travelers.

The interface is rather generic and unimaginative, but this app definitely does its job very well as a one-stop resource for all the “survival” words and phrases that you’ll need to get by while in a foreign country, so I would definitely recommend checking it out.

Learn More Than 2,000 Portuguese Words and Phrases

The Phrasebook portion of Collins English<->Portuguese Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio contains more than 2,000 words and phrases to cover different situations that you’re likely to find yourself in while traveling.

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Among these are many different topics, including accommodation, shopping, practicalities, health and beauty, eating and drinking, time, and lots more. The Phrasebook also includes masculine and feminine forms where appropriate, as does the Mini Dictionary.

 

Includes Useful Audio Pronunciations

Speaking of the Mini Dictionary, this is where you’ll find a whopping 10,000 entries covering loads of different subjects in irregular forms where necessary. Another useful aspect of this is that the Mini Dictionary also helps to clear things up with words that are written the same but pronounced differently, known as homographs.

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What’s more, there is a very handy set of audio pronunciations for every word and phrase in the Phrasebook. These are all recorded by native speakers of Portuguese so you can rest assured you’re not making a fool of yourself by mispronouncing something obvious!

 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Phrasebook contains more than 2,000 phrases covering common travel situations 
• Phrases are neatly organized into 12 main topics and into 67 subtopics
• Mini Dictionary includes 10,000 entries
• Topics covered include talking to people, getting around, accommodation, shopping, leisure, communications, and many more
• Disambiguation is provided for homographs (words that are written the same but pronounced differently)
• Listen to audio translations for each word and phrase in the Phrase Translator
• Audio translations are recorded by native Portuguese speakers
• Feminine and irregular forms where appropriate

 

Cons                                                           

• There is nothing negative to say about this app

 

Final Words

Collins English<->Portuguese Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio should be more than enough to get you by when it comes to common everyday occurrences in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking places.

The information is presented in a very clean and concise way, and there is a lot of it to boot, so this iPhone and iPad app definitely gets my recommendation.