Learn Brazilian Portuguese online, explained in English

Brazilian Portuguese from zero to B1, explained in English: nasal vowels, the «r», ser × estar, the way people really speak and life in Brazil. 62 lessons.

All 62 lessons in the course

  1. Sounds, alphabet and greetings
  2. Ser, pronouns and adjectives
  3. Introductions, countries, numbers 0-20 and age
  4. Present of -ar verbs, negation and questions
  5. Articles, gender, plural and «tem»
  6. Present of -er and -ir verbs
  7. Family and possessives
  8. Café and food: «queria», numbers to 100, prices in reais
  9. Time, days, months and dates
  10. Estar, location and contractions (no, na)
  11. City and directions
  12. Essential irregular verbs
  13. Wanting, being able to, needing and having to
  14. Daily routine and reflexive verbs
  15. Shopping, clothes, colors and demonstratives
  16. Likes and preferences: gostar and preferir
  17. Plans and actions in progress: ir + infinitive and estar + gerund
  18. A1 review and mock test
  19. Simple past: regular verbs
  20. Simple past: irregular verbs
  21. The imperfect: how things used to be
  22. Simple past or imperfect: telling a story
  23. Direct object pronouns
  24. Indirect object pronouns
  25. Pronoun placement and the spoken norm
  26. Comparatives and superlatives
  27. The future: ir + infinitive and the simple future
  28. The imperative
  29. Polite requests and the conditional
  30. Estar + gerund, acabar de, continuar, ficar
  31. Por and para
  32. Relatives: que, onde, quem
  33. Health: the doctor and the pharmacy
  34. Travel: airport, bus station and hotel
  35. Work and talking about your job
  36. Phone, WhatsApp, invitations and appointments
  37. Home, renting and neighbors
  38. A2 review and simulado
  39. Mais-que-perfeito: the past before the past
  40. Pretérito perfeito composto and the Brazilian use
  41. The conditional: futuro do pretérito
  42. The present subjunctive: forms
  43. The subjunctive: wish, doubt and emotion
  44. The subjunctive: purpose, time limits and conditions
  45. The imperfect subjunctive
  46. The future subjunctive
  47. Hypotheses with «se»
  48. Indirect speech
  49. Passive voice and the «se» constructions
  50. Personal infinitive, gerund and participle
  51. Relatives (2): cujo, o qual, quanto, onde
  52. Connectors
  53. Opinion and debate
  54. Formal style and e-mail
  55. Work and the job interview
  56. News and media
  57. Culture, festivals and regions
  58. Living in Brazil: bank, CPF, SUS, Pix and documents
  59. Strategies: paraphrasing, asking for help, registers and slang
  60. Prepositions and crase: the grave accent «à»
  61. Review of all tenses
  62. B1 simulado: listening, reading, grammar, speaking and writing

Brazilian Portuguese grammar for English speakers