Portugal Speaks

Portugal Speaks is a complete beginner-to-intermediate course for European Portuguese, designed for English speakers, built for expats who need the language to actually live in Portugal. 16 structured lessons take you from your first greeting to traveling and living confidently, with vocabulary flashcards, audio pronunciation, quizzes, and cultural notes along the way. A short placement quiz can drop returning learners straight into the right CEFR level. THREE TIERS. ONE-TIME PAYMENTS. NO SUBSCRIPTION, EVER. No account required, and everything works fully offline after first launch.* FREE - $0 A generous sample that's yours to keep: Lesson 1 in full (with video); Lessons 2–3 in full (audio); all 12 Culture topics; a taste of Phrasebook, Dialogues, Pronunciation, Grammar, and Stories; the Essential verb tier (14 of 50 verbs). ESSENTIAL COURSE - $9.99 one-time The complete course, full audio throughout: all 16 lessons, all 50 verb conjugations across 4 tiers, all 17 dialogues, all 14 stories, the full Phrasebook, Grammar, and Pronunciation guides, the full spaced-repetition review deck, and a personalized certificate of completion. Lessons, Phrasebook, and Pronunciation are recorded on video. Essential plays the native speaker's voice from that same recording, without the video. IMMERSIVE EDITION - $39.99 one-time (or $29.99 to upgrade from Essential) Everything in Essential, plus native-speaker on-camera video for every lesson, the full Phrasebook, and the Pronunciation guide, with video for the sounds that need it. Also unlocks two things found nowhere else: the Listening Hub (five audio-only practice modes) and Conversations (nine guided scenarios, plus optional AI Conversation Practice, powered by generative AI through your own API key). Every recording, every lesson, verb, phrase, and story, is voiced by a real native speaker from Lisbon, not a synthetic or text-to-speech voice. What you practice is what you'll actually hear on the street. WHY EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE? European Portuguese is not the same as Brazilian Portuguese. The sounds, vocabulary and rhythm differ significantly. Every word in Portugal Speaks is taught in the European accent used in Lisbon, Porto, the Algarve and the Silver Coast. WHAT'S INSIDE • 2,500+ native-speaker recordings, every lesson, verb, dialogue, story, and phrase • 483 vocabulary words across 16 lessons, with plain-English phonetic respellings, never IPA • 50 verbs across 4 tiers, every tense and person, all recorded • 17 interactive dialogues (A1-B1): café, hotel, transport, pharmacy, bank, bureaucracy • 14 mini-stories (A1-B2): a classic fable plus original expat-life stories • Pronunciation guide: 8 topics, 70+ sounds with audio examples • Grammar guide: 8 sections, 31 rules • Phrasebook: 84 phrases across 12 categories • 12 Culture topics: fado, saudade, food, café culture, tiles, history, regional accents • Spaced repetition review (SM-2), so vocabulary resurfaces right before you forget it • Speech recognition pronunciation practice - record yourself and get scored (your own API key) • Achievements, streaks, daily XP goals, adjustable text size, and a personalized certificate • Speech Recognition pronunciation practice and AI Conversation Practice are optional features that require your own API key (OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Azure) and an internet connection. AI Conversation Practice uses generative AI to produce replies to what you type, generated by the provider whose key you supply. Course content is written and recorded by people; no lesson, phrase, story or recording is AI-generated. All other course content works fully offline.