Learn Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese, and we say so.
A 100-word frequency starter in Brazilian Portuguese. The European and Brazilian varieties differ enough that teaching one without naming it is a disservice, so this course names it.
Designed by linguists and built with data.
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Quick taster
3-word session
A quick mix of exercises - recognise, recall, type and build each word. Miss one and it comes back round until it sticks.
Graded reader
O pai em casa
Only words the course has taught
. : . .
Dad is at home. He says: everything is fine. But I have no time.
Tap any word for its word page
Read Portuguese from the first week.
One graded reader written entirely inside the first 100 words, in Brazilian Portuguese throughout rather than a neutral written standard nobody speaks.
Browse Portuguese storiesGrammar that treats you like an adult.
Ele e doente and ele esta doente are both correct and mean different things. Ser is what something is; estar is the condition it is in.
Explore Portuguese grammarPresent tense
falar
to speak - Regular -ar verb
- eu
- falo
- voce
- fala
- ele / ela
- fala
- nos
- falamos
- voces
- falam
- eles / elas
- falam
Brazilian Portuguese has largely standardised on voce, so the paradigm a learner actually needs is shorter than the one in most textbooks.
Built for Portuguese, specifically
Not one course photocopied six times. Each language gets the tools its own difficulties actually call for.
Portuguese by the numbers
Counted from the course, not rounded up for the brochure.
- words in the course
- 100
- grammar guides
- 3
- graded reader
- 1
words in the course
grammar guides
graded reader
Or wander in sideways
The course is the spine, but every part of it stands on its own.
Start Portuguese at word one.
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