By the end
What you'll build
- Handle arrival end to end — immigration, taxi or app, hotel check-in, directions, public transport
- Order confidently in a café, a padaria and a restaurant, and handle the service charge correctly
- Shop, ask for quantities, handle reais and understand a price said at speed
- Describe a symptom at a farmácia or a doctor, and report something lost or stolen
- Understand the replies you get, not just the questions you asked
- Know what a CPF is, why you need one, and which emergency number to call
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 40 lessons
- 01
Arriving (Situations 1–5)
7 lessons- How Survival Portuguese Works
- Word Power: The Arrival Kitword power
- Situations 1–2: Immigration and the Taxilistening lab
- Situation 3: Hotel Check-infill blank
- Situation 4: Directions — and the Answerlistening lab
- + 2 more lessons
- 02
Eating and Drinking (Situations 6–10)
7 lessons- Situation 6: The Café and the Cafezinholistening lab
- Situation 7: The Padariaspeaking lab
- Situation 8: Getting a Tablelistening lab
- Situation 9: The Bill and the 10%fill blank
- Word Power: Reading a Brazilian Menuword power
- + 2 more lessons
- 03
Shopping and Money (Situations 11–15)
6 lessons- Situation 11: The Supermarket Checkoutlistening lab
- Situation 12: The Feira — Buying by Weightfill blank
- Situation 13: The Farmácialistening lab
- Situation 14: Clothes and Sizesspeaking lab
- Situation 15: The Caixa Eletrônicolistening lab
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Living There (Situations 16–20)
6 lessons- Situation 16: The Landlordlistening lab
- Situation 17: Internet, Phone and Appointmentsfill blank
- Situation 18: The Lavanderiaspeaking lab
- Situation 19: The Correioslistening lab
- Situation 20: Talking to a Neighboursentence builder
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
When Things Go Wrong (Situations 21–25)
6 lessons- Situation 21: At the Doctorlistening lab
- Situation 22: Reporting a Lost Bagspeaking lab
- Situation 23: A Complaint That Worksfill blank
- Situation 24: Emergencieslistening lab
- Situation 25: Explaining What Happenedsentence builder
- + 1 more lesson
- 06
People (Situations 26–30)
8 lessons- Situation 26: Small Talklistening lab
- Situation 27: Introducing Yourselfspeaking lab
- Situation 28: você, o senhor, and a gentefill blank
- Situation 29: On the Phonelistening lab
- Capstone: A Day in Portuguesespeaking lab
- + 3 more lessons
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
40 lessons across 6 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.
