Excerpt from Portuguese Self-Taught (Thimm's System) With Phonetic Pronunciation: Containing Vocabularies Idiomatic Phrases and Sentences, Elementary Grammar, Commercial, Trading, Legal and Religious Terms, Travel Talk Photography Cycling, Motoring Amusements, &C., &C To anyone with a knowledge of Spanish. Particularly if that knowledge has been obtained through the medium of Marlborough's system of Phonetic Pronunciation, the acquirement of the sister tongue by the aid of portuguese sele-taught will present no difiiculty. The most noticeable differences, perhaps, are the absence of the Spanish gutturals, and the unexpected presence of the nasal sound, resembling the French nasal, which is a feature of the Portuguese language though not found in Spanish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.