Speaking - your first conversation - o Carlos

This short text for beginners summarizes a few must-know structures and vocabulary that you’ll need in your first conversations in Portuguese.

Watch the video of the story and practice these structures with the Q&A section after the story. This allows you to grow the different skills of the language; improve your listening and reading comprehensions and activate the vocabulary and grammar structures by speaking.

Speaking - your first conversation - a Maria

This short text for beginners summarizes a few must-know structures and vocabulary that you’ll need in your first conversations in Portuguese.

Watch the video of the story and practice these structures with the Q&A section after the story. This allows you to grow the different skills of the language; improve your listening and reading comprehensions and activate the vocabulary and grammar structures by speaking.

Phrases - how to make requests in Portuguese

In this episode, you’ll learn how to make requests.

For example, asking where the train station is, how much the apples cost, and who is the manager. I’m giving you more complex sentence structures here, but you can use them on different occasions and are very polite. Also, they force you to practice different grammar aspects.

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Phrases - Should I answer a question with "sim"?

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In this episode, I want to talk a little about how to answer yes and no questions (closed questions).

Now you’re thinking, well, that doesn’t sound too complicated. Just answer sim or não. The truth is that we don’t answer with yes that often. This doesn’t mean we always answer with não, this means there’s a different structure you can use if you want to answer in the affirmative.