What are some good resources for someone looking to learn Brazilian Portuguese?

With any luck, I will be visiting Brazil within the next year to see a good friend of mine. However, I don’t speak any Portuguese. She speaks fluent English and almost all of her friends do as well she’s majoring in International Relations, as are most of her friends but I would still like to learn some Portuguese.

I know that Portugal Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are the same language, but I also know that there are a fair number of colloquial differences and as I speak neither, I would prefer to stick with Brazilian Portuguese but if you know of a resource that is fabulous with Portugal Portuguese, I would love to hear about it.