By the end
What you'll build
- Predict noun gender and handle Portuguese's unusually heavy contraction system
- Make adjectives agree correctly and place them on the right side of the noun
- Use the personal infinitive — the feature no other Romance language has
- Recognise and use the future subjunctive, which appears in everyday Portuguese sentences
- Place object pronouns the way Brazilians actually do, not the way textbooks teach
- Read a Portuguese form, contract, label and news headline without a dictionary
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 29 lessons
- 01
Gender, Articles and the Contraction Machine
5 lessons- Gender Is Predictable — and Everything Contracts
- The Contractionsfill blank
- Checkpoint: Gender and Contractionsquiz
- Adjectives, Agreement and Comparison
- Build It: Agreement and Comparisonsentence builder
- 02
The Personal Infinitive
5 lessons- The Feature No Other Romance Language Has
- Using the Personal Infinitivefill blank
- Build It: The Personal Infinitivesentence builder
- Listening: The Personal Infinitive in Speechlistening lab
- Checkpoint: The Personal Infinitivequiz
- 03
Pronouns — What Brazilians Actually Do
4 lessons- The Rules Textbooks Teach and the Rules People Follow
- Which Pronoun, and Where?fill blank
- Checkpoint: Pronounsquiz
- Build It: Pronouns the Brazilian Waysentence builder
- 04
The Subjunctive — Including the One Spanish Lost
5 lessons- Present Subjunctive, and the Future Subjunctive
- Recognising the Triggers
- Indicative, Present or Future Subjunctive?fill blank
- Listening: The Future Subjunctive in Speechlistening lab
- Checkpoint: The Subjunctivesquiz
- 05
Reading Real Portuguese
5 lessons- Forms, Signs, Labels and Headlines
- Word Power: Administrative Portugueseword power
- Reading a Formfill blank
- Checkpoint: Reading Portuguesequiz
- Listening: Announcements and Newslistening lab
- 06
Writing Portuguese and the Grammar Capstone
5 lessons- Typing Portuguese and Getting the Accents Right
- Flashcards: The Grammar Systemflashcard sr
- Flashcards: Reading Vocabularyflashcard sr
- Final Checkpoint: Grammar and Readingquiz
- Course Review — Spaced Recallflashcard sr
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
29 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.