- Introduction
- Absolute Beginner
- Beginner
- Intermediate to advanced
- Additional helpers
- Anki
- Native Material
Bem-vindo ao /r/portuguese,
Make sure to also head over to the /r/languagelearning wiki for more general information on language learning
You are an absolute beginner and want to start right away? Pick one of these:
-
Semantica-Portuguese Series1 Video lessons (fee based) (example)
-
PortuguesePod101 Audio lessons (hint: you can download all lessons for free, if you create multiple accounts)
and all of those:
- begin the Duolingo portuguese course (free)
- Tá Falado Podcast for pronunciation (free)
- additional little helpers as needed, see below
This should bring you to an A2-B1 level. Don't use too many of these tools simultaneously, 3-5 is a good amount. Below in the native material section you can also find easy material for beginners
- PortuguesePod101 Audio lessons (hint: you can download of all lessons for free, if you create multiple accounts)
- Lingua da gente
- FSI course
- Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar by John Whitlam
- Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Workbook
- Portuguese - An essential grammar by Amélia P. Hutchinson and Janet Lloyd
- A frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- alternative in pt?
- good text book? ler-falar-escrever? muito prazer?
- finish Duolingo
- build vocabulary with Memrise, Anki (a little bit of info about how to use Anki) or Clozemaster
- lyricstraining (better in intermediate section?)
- conjugemos
- Semantica-Portuguese
- Streetsmartbrazil
- iTalki articles
- Transparent Language Blog
- sonia-portuguese.com
- learn with rafa
- practice speaking with our Discord channel or find a tutor on iTalki
- you can add some native material as well, easy youtube videos like peppa pig for example, see below for more native resources
Although there are quite some resources for intermediate lerners available, of which some are listed below, we advice you to dig into native material as soon as possible. See below for native material.
- Semantica-portuguese advanced dialoges (paid)
- Individual video lessons with iTalki or streetsmartbrazil (paid)
- Português para estrangeiros com Marcia Macedo
- PortuguesePod101 podcast
- Really learn portuguese podcast
- Brazilian Portuguese Pod (old podcast with Andre Barbosa of reallylearnportuguese.com, website doesn't exist anymore)
- Brazilian PodClass - better in beginner section?
- Todo mundo Pod - better in beginner section?
- Muito Prazer (flash-warning)
- Português via Brasil
- exercise sheets from the book Muito Prazer - book is not needed for most exercises
- Duolingo articles index
- Great article about the subjuntivo
- Article about tenses
- Words of connection (list of useful vocabulary for intermediate learners)
- switch the language of your OS, Phone, Facebook, Twitter etc.
- create a pt-only list for twitter and add it to your tweetdeck to get bite-sized portuguese every day
- create Anki decks from movies/series with subs2anki(Windows) or SubtitleMemorize + MorphMan(Linux)
- Linguee (vocabulary in context, bilingual)
- Tatoeba (vocabulary in context, bilingual)
- Priberam (monolingual dictionary)
- Dicio.com.br (monolingual dictionary)
- Aurélio (monolingual dictionary)
- Aulete (monolingual dictionary)
- Forvo (pronunciation)
- Speak like a brazilian (slang/idioms)
- Dicionário informal (slang/idioms)
- subs2srs / subtitleMemorize
- Memrise to Anki
- image resizer
- Duolingo to Anki
We highly encourage you to use native material as soon as possible, the more the better. The idea is to get a genaral grasp of the content and to train you ear, rather than understanding everything in full detail. Even as a beginner you can watch children shows like peppa pig or .... As soon as you have learned some basic vocabular ... Here are some ideas
- Escriba Café
- Portal café brasil
- more to come
- globoplay.com - Brasilian national TV station with online streaming service, lots of novelas
- 3% (Netflix Series) - science-fiction, reminds me a little of hunger games
- cidades e soluções
Of course this list wouldn't be of any use if I didn't add any novelas, since they play a huge part in Brazilian TV and Pop culture, so I headed over to /r/brasil and asked the people which novelas they like. Here is what they came up with:
- A indomada
- A próxima vítima
- A regra do jogo
- Avenida Brasil
- Cordel Encantado
- Beijo do vampiro
- Chocolate com pimenta
- Coração de estudante
- Lado a Lado
- Malhação
- O Clone
- O Cravo e a Rosa
- O Rebu
- Pedra sobre Pedra
- Recascer
- Rei do gado
- Roque Santeiro
- Saramandaia
- Senhora do Destino
- Ti ti ti
A top100 list can be found here
- Turma da Mônica - easy
- Galinha Pintadinha - easy
- Peppa Pig - easy
- Bob Zoom - easy
- O pequeno reino de Ben e Holly - easy
- Nerdologia - Nerd facts
- o mundo segundo os brasileiros - travel video blog, intermediate
- novo telecurso - short educational videos, intermediate
- porta dos fundos - humour, advanced
- Canal nostalgia
- fatos desconhecidos
- Maual do Mundo - Life hacks
- Minutos Psíquicos
- The Noite - Late night show
- G1 Notícias
- Cidade de Deus
- Cidade dos homens
- Tropa de Elite 1+2
- Que horas ela volta
- Central do Brasil
- O homem que copiava
- Se eu fosse você
- Carandiru
- Meu nome não é Johnny
- Lisbela e o prisioneiro
- Malu de bicicleta
- Novíssima Gramática Cegalla
- Moderna Gramática Portuguesa - link's missing
- Cunha - Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo
- Folha de São Paulo (daily newspaper)
- Estado de São Paulo (daily newspaper)
- OGlobo
- BBC Brasil
- El País Brasil
- The intercept brasil
- Piauí
- Superinteressante
- História do Brasil
- Ciência hoje das crianças - sience magizin for children
- não salvo(humor, buzz-feed like)
- Buzzfeed
- Sensacionalista
- Piauí Herald
- porta dos fundos - humour, advanced
- guia de media - collection