Daily Conversation Portuguese (L3)

By the end

What you'll build

• Conjugate and use the present tense of the verbs that carry everyday conversation
• Choose between ser and estar correctly, including the Brazilian 'estar com' patterns
• Talk about the past with both the pretérito perfeito and the imperfeito
• Talk about the future with 'ir + infinitive', the form Brazilians actually use
• Use 'gostar de' correctly — and know why it is NOT built like Spanish 'gustar'
• Hold a five-minute unscripted conversation about your life, work and plans

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 36 lessons

1. 01

   The Verb Engine — Present Tense

   6 lessons
   • Three Endings and the Verbs That Carry Everything
   • Build It: Present-Tense Sentencessentence builder
   • Which Verb Form?fill blank
   • Listening: Catching the Endinglistening lab
   • Build It: Describing Your Lifesentence builder
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Ser versus Estar

   6 lessons
   • The Same Split as Spanish, With Brazilian Twists
   • Build It: Ser or Estarsentence builder
   • Ser, Estar or Estar Com?fill blank
   • Listening: The Pairs in Contextlistening lab
   • Build It: The estar com Familysentence builder
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Talking About Time

   6 lessons
   • Two Pasts and an Easy Future
   • Build It: The Pretéritosentence builder
   • Pretérito or Imperfeito?fill blank
   • The Future and the Gerund
   • Build It: Plans and Progresssentence builder
   • + 1 more lesson
4. 04

   Questions, Negation and Gostar

   6 lessons
   • Asking, Denying, and the Verb Spanish Gets Backwards
   • Build It: Questions, Negatives and Gostarsentence builder
   • Gostar, Negatives and Question Wordsfill blank
   • Word Power: Opinions and Fillersword power
   • Speaking Lab: Agree, Disagree, Hedgespeaking lab
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Small Talk, Plans and the Telephone

   6 lessons
   • The Shape of a Brazilian Conversation
   • Build It: Small Talksentence builder
   • Listening: A Real Conversationlistening lab
   • Word Power: Conversation Glueword power
   • Flashcards: The Conversation Kitflashcard sr
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   Conversation Capstones

   6 lessons
   • Listening: When It Goes Off-Scriptlistening lab
   • Build It: The Full Toolkitsentence builder
   • Capstone: Five Minutes About Your Lifespeaking lab
   • Final Checkpoint: Daily Conversationquiz
   • Picture It & Speak — AI Image Studioimage lab
   • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works