Learn Portuguese by Podcast

What you will find here

Podcasts – free episodes of Learn Portuguese By Podcast: real, everyday conversations in Portuguese, with study books, transcripts and audio to help you understand every word.

Books – podcast transcripts, the Shortcut series, Conversation Practice, Short Stories and Verb Tenses, in paperback, Kindle and PDF.

Courses – coming soon. A step-by-step online Portuguese course that brings the podcasts, books and verb practice together in one place.

How it works

1. Listen. Play an episode and follow the conversation. Do not worry about every word the first time.

2. Read. Open the study book for that episode: full transcript, vocabulary list and comprehension exercises with answers.

3. Speak. Repeat the useful phrases aloud, copy the pronunciation, and use three new words in your own sentences today.

Study books are available as PDF downloads for each group of ten episodes, or as paperbacks and Kindle editions on Amazon.

Why Learn Portuguese?

Portuguese is spoken by over 250 million people across four continents: Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and beyond. It is one of the fastest growing languages online, and Brazil alone is one of the world’s largest economies. But the real reason to learn it is warmth. Portuguese is a language of music, of football, of long conversations over coffee, of people who will meet your first hesitant sentence with genuine delight.

It is also more accessible than most learners expect. If you speak English, you already recognise thousands of Portuguese words. My Shortcut method is built entirely on that idea. Transfer what you already know, and start speaking far sooner than you thought possible.