By the end
What you'll build
- Project and articulate in Portuguese — diction drills, breath, pace and the deliberate pause
- Use Brazilian expressions and provérbios accurately, and know which English ones never translate
- Structure and deliver a story with a hook, a turn and a landing
- Handle humour and persuasion in Brazilian Portuguese, including what does not travel from English
- Argue a position, rebut an objection and speak for two minutes with no preparation
- Deliver a recorded three-minute talk in Portuguese that you would be willing to share
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 30 lessons
- 01
Voice, Diction and Presence
5 lessons- The Instrument, Not the Vocabulary
- Diction Drillstongue twister
- Presence Lab: The Sixty-Second Openpresence lab
- Speaking Lab: Pace and the Pausespeaking lab
- Checkpoint: Voice and Presencequiz
- 02
Expressions, Provérbios and Imagery
5 lessons- The Difference Between Correct and Vivid
- Expressions in Contextmetaphor idiom
- Word Power: Imagery for Speechesword power
- Using Expressions Correctlyfill blank
- Checkpoint: Expressionsquiz
- 03
The Storyteller's Craft
4 lessons- The Shape of a Story That Lands
- Listening: A Story Told Welllistening lab
- Speech Template: Build Your Storyspeech template
- Speaking Lab: Tell Itspeaking lab
- 04
Humour and Persuasion
5 lessons- What Travels and What Doesn't
- Rhetorical Expressionsmetaphor idiom
- Speaking Lab: Argue a Positionspeaking lab
- Listening: A Persuasive Speakerlistening lab
- Checkpoint: Humour and Persuasionquiz
- 05
Debate and Speaking Without Preparation
5 lessons- Thinking On Your Feet
- Word Power: Debate Languageword power
- Repairs and Rebuttalsfill blank
- Speaking Lab: Impromptuspeaking lab
- Checkpoint: Impromptu and Debatequiz
- 06
The Recorded Capstone
6 lessons- Building a Three-Minute Talk
- Speech Template: Plan Your Talkspeech template
- Capstone: The Recorded Talkspeech practice
- Speaking Lab: The Thirty-Second Versionspeaking lab
- Final Checkpoint: Stage and Storyquiz
- + 1 more lesson
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
30 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.