You asked for it: By popular request, we’ve launched a Practice Portuguese Community Forum! For years, we’ve been having fantastic conversations with members, directly via email. So now, it’s about time that the whole community can benefit from some of these nuggets that would otherwise be lost deep in the email archives. In the forum, […]
Member Newsletter: Forum Announcement
Say Yes to Madeira: A Review of Practice Portuguese
Edyta from Say Yes to Madeira (a wedding and travel blog that focuses on the beautiful Portuguese islands of Madeira and Porto Santo 🏝) shares her thoughts after trying out Practice Portuguese! Take a look at her detailed review that includes a breakdown of different sections of the site, along with many photos. 👍 “I […]
Learning Studio: Speaking Practice (New!)
We’ve launched a new feature to record and analyze your pronunciation of phrases inside Lessons!
Learning Studio: 50+ Exclusive Dialogues
After you complete all of the Lessons of a Unit, you’ll unlock a special dialogue. They’re basically bite-sized podcast episodes (1-3 minutes long), designed to put some of the vocabulary you’ve learned into context. We’ve launched over 50 new dialogues, with more on the way as we continue to roll out new Learning Studio Units. […]
Learning Studio Upgrades: Mastery Levels & Scoring
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 […]
Can You Learn Portuguese in 3 Months?
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. […]
Simple Phrases To Learn Before Visiting Portugal
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, […]
Getting Past Beginner’s Intimidation On Your Way To Portuguese Fluency
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 […]