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September 20th: This post has been updated to reflect additional scoring tweaks we launched today, inspired by some of the feedback in emails and this post’s comments. We’d love to know what you think in the comments… Obrigado! 🙂 We have exciting news! Over the past year, we’ve been rebuilding the Learning Studio from the ground up to […]

Take a look at this post from the Fluent in 3 Months blog in which Holly Keenan finishes up month 3 of her learning Portuguese challenge (with a little help from Practice Portuguese!): How I Learned Portuguese in 3 Months: Mission Complete! You can also see how she did in Month 2 and Month 1. […]

We often get messages from complete beginners who plan to visit Portugal and want to learn a few of the basic Portuguese travel phrases. In Portugal, the level of English is quite good, especially the younger generations in the main cities of Lisbon and Porto. But regardless of how well the locals speak your language, […]

We get amazing emails from our members daily, and we usually just respond to them privately. But since the response got quite long and involved, I decided to go over it a couple times before sending and try to turn it into a more or less intelligible article that others might be able to relate to… but you […]

  Using a variety of different types of resources can give you a fresh perspective on learning Portuguese and helps you stay motivated. But we know money doesn’t grow on , so check out this guide to free and low-cost options for learning the Portuguese of Portugal from the blog Julie Dawn Fox in Portugal: […]

Olá! After almost two years of us putting all of our focus into releasing new podcast episodes, we realized that our website design and functionality was starting to slow us down. We were stacking new features onto the very basic website we had started with, which was working fine… but today, we are very proud […]

Community Growth In the past year, we have been blown away by all the positive feedback we have been receiving from iTunes listeners, blogs, googlers, and of course, our supporting premium members. (We love to hear from our listeners and members, so send us a message to say hi! Escreve em português ou inglês, como queiras!) With […]

Here is another question from our friend Ihsan, to be answered by Rui:

Q: I was wondering if Portugal had different accents according to region like in Brazil…and if they varied greatly or differ only subtly? If there are different accents, which one does Rui speak?

Rui: Sim Portugal tem diferentes pronúncias que variam de acordo com as diferentes zonas. Os Açores têm a pronúncia mais marcada de todo o País (continente e ilhas) e talvez a que menos portugueses entendem.