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Free online courseBrazilian Portuguese basics

Duration of the online course: 8 hours and 41 minutes

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Start speaking Brazilian Portuguese with a free online course: essential grammar, pronunciation, and everyday phrases to travel, work, and chat confidently.

In this free course, learn about

  • Use ser vs estar (and differences between ser/estar) in common situations
  • Conjugate regular verbs and use core tenses: present, past (pretérito) and imperfect
  • Use key irregular/common verbs: ter, ir, poder, precisar, falar
  • Choose saber vs conhecer; achar vs pensar; trazer vs levar; olhar vs ver vs assistir
  • Talk about yourself: origin, nationality, job, likes, wants, opinions, daily routine
  • Describe location: where you live and where you are; aqui/cá/aí/ali/lá
  • Master basic sentence structure and everyday adjectives, colors, days of week, weather
  • Apply noun gender rules and form plurals correctly
  • Use pronouns: possessive, demonstrative; choose tu vs você and nós vs a gente
  • Use quantifiers muito/muita/muitos/muitas and distinguish só/somente/apenas
  • Use prepositions and contractions: de, em, para vs por; em/na/no; common contractions
  • Count from 0–100, big numbers, and use ordinal numbers; tell time
  • Improve pronunciation: nasal vowels/sounds, open vs closed E/O, and letters R and X

Course Description

Brazilian Portuguese basics is designed for anyone who wants to stop guessing and start communicating with confidence. Whether you are preparing for a trip, connecting with family and friends, or adding a valuable skill to your professional profile, this free online course helps you build a practical foundation in the language you will hear on the streets, in shops, at work, and in daily conversations in Brazil.

You will develop the core grammar that makes Portuguese feel predictable, so you can create your own sentences instead of memorizing isolated phrases. Step by step, you will get comfortable choosing between essential structures, using common verb forms, and expressing what you do, what you like, what you want, where you live, and where you are. As your confidence grows, you will be able to talk about routine, describe people and places with frequent adjectives, and share opinions naturally in real-life situations.

Clear pronunciation guidance is built in to help you sound more natural and understand native speakers more easily. You will work on important Brazilian sounds and patterns, including common letters, nasal vowels, and tricky contrasts that often confuse beginners. The course also supports fluency with practical language building blocks such as numbers, days of the week, colors, telling the time, and common word combinations and contractions that appear constantly in everyday speech.

By the end, you will have a well-rounded base for continued learning, with the ability to speak about yourself in the present and the past, ask and answer common questions, and recognize the grammar cues that unlock meaning when you listen. If you want a friendly, structured path into Brazilian Portuguese that stays focused on what you can actually use, this course is a solid place to begin.

Course content

  • Video class: Speaking Brazilian - The Differences Between Ser 07m
  • Video class: How to conjugate regular verbs in Portuguese - part 1 08m
  • Video class: How to conjugate regular verbs in Portuguese - part 2 08m
  • Video class: Brazilian Portuguese - How to answer the question where are you from? 10m
  • Video class: Brazilian Portuguese - How to talk about your daily routine (part 1). 11m
  • Video class: Learn Portuguese - How to talk about your routine (part 2). 09m
  • Video class: Learn Brazilian Portuguese - How to talk about things you like. 06m
  • Video class: Speak Brazilian Portuguese - How to talk about where you live. 08m
  • Video class: Speak Brazilian Portuguese - How to talk about where you are. 07m
  • Video class: Speak Portuguese - Learn the most common adjectives and how to use them. 05m
  • Video class: Learn how to answer the question what do you do? in Portuguese. 06m
  • Video class: Learn how to talk about your nationality in Portuguese! 05m
  • Video class: Brazilian Portuguese - Learn the most common uses of the verb falar (to speak). 05m
  • Video class: Speak Brazilian Portuguese - How to talk about what you want. 05m
  • Video class: Most Common Regular Verbs in Portuguese - Verbo Precisar. 05m
  • Video class: Learn Brazilian Portuguese - Verb TER (to have) 05m
  • Video class: Can you speak Portuguese? How to use the verb poder (can). 05m
  • Video class: Brazilian Portuguese - Most used irregular verbs - IR (to go) 06m
  • Video class: How to use the verb to know in Brazilian Portuguese - saber ou conhecer? - Speaking Brazilian 05m
  • Video class: Learn how to express your opinion in Portuguese: achar or pensar? - Speaking Brazilian 06m
  • Video class: Speak Portuguese - When to use trazer (to bring) or levar (to take)? - Speaking Brazilian 05m
  • Video class: Verbs in Portuguese - to look, to see or to watch? | Speaking Brazilian 03m
  • Video class: PAST TENSE in PORTUGUESE | Speaking Brazilian 07m
  • Video class: Past IMPERFECT tense in Portuguese | Speaking Brazilian 07m
  • Video class: Intermediate 06m
  • Video class: When to use PARA or POR? | Speaking Brazilian 07m
  • Video class: How to talk about the WEATHER in Portuguese | Speaking Brazilian 06m
  • Video class: How to pronounce the letter X in Portuguese | Speaking Brazilian 04m
  • Video class: Gender of Words in Portuguese: Feminine or Masculine? | 4 Easy TIPS | Speaking Brazilian 05m
  • Video class: How to form the PLURAL in PORTUGUESE | 5 TIPS | Speaking Brazilian 07m
  • Video class: Days of the Week in Portuguese | Speaking Brazilian 07m
  • Video class: Portuguese for Beginners: POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS | Speaking Brazilian 08m
  • Video class: Tu ou Você? What is the difference? | Speaking Brazilian 09m
  • Video class: Nós or A Gente? What is the difference? | Speaking Brazilian 06m
  • Video class: BASIC PORTUGUESE - Muito, Muita, Muitos, Muitas | Speaking Brazilian 06m
  • Video class: How to use the preposition DE in Portuguese 10m
  • Video class: How to use the preposition EM in Portuguese | Speaking Brazilian 07m
  • Video class: BASIC PORTUGUESE | Demonstrative Pronouns 07m
  • Video class: Numbers in Portuguese from 0 to 100 08m
  • Video class: Big Numbers in Portuguese from 101 to 1 Billion 08m
  • Video class: COLORS IN PORTUGUESE | Basic Brazilian Portuguese 08m
  • Video class: LIVE CLASS: Nasal Vowels 1h05m
  • Exercise: In Brazilian Portuguese, what indicates that a vowel is nasal?
  • Video class: How to pronounce the open O and closed O in Portuguese 09m
  • Video class: How to pronounce the open E and the closed E in Portuguese 08m
  • Video class: The 3 main verb tenses in Portuguese - Beginner level [LIVE CLASS] 30m
  • Video class: Word Contractions in Brazilian Portuguese 09m
  • Video class: Can you use these words? | Aqui, Cá, Aí, Ali or Lá? 06m
  • Video class: SÓ, SOMENTE or APENAS? What is the difference? 05m
  • Video class: How to tell the time in Portuguese? 12m
  • Video class: How to pronounce the letter R in Brazilian Portuguese 10m
  • Video class: NASAL SOUNDS IN PORTUGUESE 13m
  • Video class: How to Use Ordinal Numbers in Portuguese 05m
  • Video class: Brazilian Pronunciation in 30 minutes | The MOST DIFFICULT sounds 29m
  • Video class: Basic Sentence Structure in Brazilian Portuguese 08m
  • Video class: EM, NA or NO? What’s the difference? 04m
  • Video class: Speak Like a Brazilian: How to use the -ING FORM in Portuguese? 05m
  • Video class: SER or ESTAR? Brazilian Portuguese Grammar for Beginners 06m

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