English As She Is Spoke The Guide Of The Conversation In Portuguese And English

Author : Pedro Carolino
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486835006
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as She Is Spoke written by Pedro Carolino and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally conceived as a Portuguese-English phrase book, this literary curiosity was written by an author who, remarkably, spoke no English. With the help of a pair of dictionaries, Pedro Carolino translated a series of expressions from his native Portuguese into French and from French into English. The result is a volume of unintentional hilarity, praised by Mark Twain in his appreciative Introduction for its "miraculous stupidities." Imagine the Portuguese traveler, with this book in hand, offering grooming tips, "Dress your hairs," making polite dinner conversation, "Like you the soup?" and inviting an acquaintance to take a walk, "Let us go to respire the air." The collection is organized into sections of familiar phrases, familiar dialogues, and familiar letters — which might not strike the native English speaker as particularly familiar, concluding with a selection of humorous anecdotes. As Twain observed, "In this world of uncertainties, there is, at any rate, one thing which may be pretty confidently set down as a certainty: and that is, that this celebrated little phrase-book will never die while the English language lasts. Its delicious unconscious ridiculousness, and its enchanting naïvete are as supreme and unapproachable, in their way, as are Shakespeare's sublimities."

Author : José da Fonseca
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest written by José da Fonseca and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English as she is spoke by Jose de Fonseca is a befuddled Portuguese-to-English dictionary which was intentionally published as a humorous guide. Excerpt: "A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious Portuguese and Brazilian Youth; and also to persons of others nations, that wish to know the Portuguese language. We sought all we may do, to correct that want, composing and devising the present little work in two parts."

Author : Pedro Carolino
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486829324
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as She Is Spoke written by Pedro Carolino and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unintentionally hilarious Portuguese-English phrase book written by an author who spoke no English. In his Introduction to this literary curiosity, Mark Twain warmly praised it for its "miraculous stupidities."

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Publisher : Zebra Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844060832
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Author : Jose de Fonseca
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625580312
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English As She Is Spoke written by Jose de Fonseca and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: they didn't know any English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train wreck that ensued is a classic of unintentional humor, now revived in the first newly selected edition in a century. Armed with Fonseca and Carolino's guide, a Portuguese traveler can insult a barber ("What news tell me? All hairs dresser are newsmonger"), complain about the orchestra ("It is a noise which to cleve the head"), go hunting ("let aim it! let make fire him"), and consult a handy selection of truly mystifying "Idiotisms and Proverbs."

Author : Pedro|Fonseca Carolino (Jose da)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781370015412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as She is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English written by Pedro|Fonseca Carolino (Jose da) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107611806
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as a Global Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

Author : Patton O. Tabors
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Child, Two Languages written by Patton O. Tabors and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical, engaging guide to helping early childhood educators understand and address the needs of English language learners.

Author : Jose da Fonseca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English As She Is Spoke written by Jose da Fonseca and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-13 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when someone who doesn't speak English attempts to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook? THIS is what happens. .......... "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect." - Mark Twain .......... "[T]he second chapter is titled 'Familiar Phrases,' and features sentences intended to help the weary Portuguese traveler in everyday conversation. These phrases include classics like 'He has spit in my coat'; 'take that boy and whip him to much'; and the oft-used 'these apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in mouth.' - Tucker Leighty-Phillips, Atlas Obscura .......... "[T]he book migrated to literary circles in London, where it became the Victorian equivalent of a viral video. Friends passed it to friends who giggled over -- even then -- unintentionally sexual phrases such as, 'He do the devil at four.' - Mike Drucker, Splitsider .........."Is there anything in conventional English which could equal the vividness of 'to craunch a marmoset'?" - Stephen Pile..........Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse

Author : Pedro Carolino
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English As She Is Spoke written by Pedro Carolino and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1960 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: