Helped me to improve
location: Ukraine
posted: December 3, 2024
Name: Lena
thank you for your podcasts, they really help me to improve my Portuguese
Nice insight
location: Netherlands
posted: December 2, 2024
Name: Anja
Your method of teaching is very pleasant and useful. It also gives a nice insight into life in Portugal.
Helped me so much
posted: November 15, 2024
Name: Erika
I had a wonderful vacation in Portugal and this app helped me so much.
Organized so beautifully and carefully
location: Portugal
posted: November 14, 2024
Name: Lynn
I…came to Portugal last year when my daughter and her family decided to move here. The day she surprised me with that invitation, I did a Google Search, found you both, and was delighted. I started your program that day, and completed level B2 yesterday. As a former language teacher (30 years- Spanish), I was so happy to follow the lessons that you organized so beautifully and carefully. How can I thank you enough?!
Significant achievement
location: U.S.A.
posted: November 14, 2024
Name: James
As an applied linguist…who works in technology and language learning…and as a current student of European Portuguese…I’ve been making extensive use of your app and A1 course and greatly enjoying them. You’ve no doubt heard this before, but language learning apps typically excel in only one or two of three crucial areas: technology, pedagogy, or language/cultural content. Your product stands out by doing an outstanding job with all three, and I’ve been wanting for some time to commend you for this significant achievement.
Read and listen at the same time
location: UK
posted: November 2, 2024
Name: Rosie
I just wanted to send a message of great appreciation, thanking Practice Portuguese for all that you do in supporting people to learn the Portuguese language. I wouldn’t be anywhere near as good as I am now without your help, because there is literally zero material out there which helps people read and listen at the same time to Portuguese. It is so great that you have the English available as well, it makes it so easy to understand what is being said and to look at the meaning of the words. You’ve made language learning simple and not laborious. Please carry on forever!
Joel’s and Rui’s enthusiasm
posted: October 28, 2024
Name: Shannan
I really love Joel’s and Rui’s enthusiasm and commitment to helping us learn Portuguese. We…have grandchildren in Lisbon…and we love going to visit them. We need to be able to speak the language as we hope to make frequent trips to Portugal! Thank you.
Well done folks
posted: October 19, 2024
Name: Brian
I’ve found Practice Portuguese punching above its weight class as far as quality and ease of use. The big corporations may have more resources but your organization brings more passion and better customer service!
Well explained
posted: October 15, 2024
Name: Alex
I love your platform! I’ve really enjoyed your detailed and well explained grammar points, as well as the podcast conversations.
Very helpful
posted: October 3, 2024
Name: Diane
I subscribed to your website so I could refresh my memory and learn more Portuguese before visiting Porto and Lisboa in September. You have created a wonderful, very helpful website for learning a language, and it helped me very much.
Muito obrigado!!!
posted: September 22, 2024
Name: Mike
I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed using Practice Portuguese!!! I want to thank you so much for the amazing content and maybe someday (if my wishes come true) we’ll be back and I’ll continue learning this amazing language with your help.
The knowledge really sticks
location: Sweden
posted: September 6, 2024
Name: Fedde
I have tried a couple of other online sites for learning Portuguese, but even if those sites are quite acceptable and useful, I feel they don’t even come close to how you have structured your learning! The combination of short lessons, informative texts, exercises (written, audio and speech) and the variety and width of the material really force a students brain to practice in a way where the knowledge really sticks in a far more effective way!
You have also added a nice touch with the “gamification” of the learning process, which makes it fun to progress and improve.
I simply felt I could not sit in silence and NOT give you this feedback. You really deserve it.
In my eyes you are REALLY doing your stuff really, really well! Keep up the amazing job!
Learning so much
posted: August 25, 2024
Name: Amy
Thanks for your constant work to keep making content. I am learning so much!
Really good structure
location: Poland
posted: August 20, 2024
Name: Mateusz
I really think that the course is amazing and has a really good structure for people completely new to the language as well as for intermediate, but also is very well organized for people who don’t have their own learning plan or idea of how to manage it.
Nothing useful until I found you
location: Germany
posted: August 18, 2024
Name: Angelika
I cannot say how glad I am to have found this app together with your wonderful little films on YouTube and the podcasts I can listen to when I cannot look on a display. For a whole year I tried to find a way to learn (and practise) European Portuguese and found nothing useful until I found you. Living in Germany, I can’t just talk to Portuguese people to train my listening because there are none… Your explanations are so thoughtful when someone has a question, and the whole thing is structured in the best way I can imagine.
Perfect for me
location: U.S.A.
posted: August 17, 2024
Name: Megan
It’s really perfect for me right now to review and establish my current level for listening and speaking to try to catch them up and improve. I was a foreign language textbook writer/editor for 17 years and really love what you and the PP team have put together here!
This is THE app to learn European Portuguese
location: Budapest
posted: August 14, 2024
Name: Balazs
I have been using your app for just under a year, and let me tell you, I am absolutely loving it! I feel like this is THE app to learn European Portuguese, the grammar explanations are excellent, and the rooster for the app is adorable!
Talking with our neighbors
posted: August 10, 2024
Name: Lyssa
This app is absolutely amazing. It has been so helpful. My daughter and her partner moved to Portugal and it has helped them get started talking with our neighbors … What a great job you all have done!
Opens the door culturally
posted: August 8, 2024
Name: Emily
Muito muito obrigada for all these new videos and podcasts over the last few months. I especially enjoy the combo of Joel plus a native speaker (Rui or guests 😊) as I’m very inspired by how well Joel speaks and he opens the door culturally (coming from a fellow North American) and asks the kind of questions I’d like to ask myself.
Makes learning fun
posted: August 1, 2024
Name: John
We love your website and teaching mode. It makes learning fun!
Absolutamente incrível
posted: July 28, 2024
Name: Riccardo
Devo dizer que é absolutamente incrível! É muito cativante! Deve ter levado muito tempo (e conhecimento) para construí-lo!
A definite ‘go to’
location: Portugal
posted: July 16, 2024
Name: Simon
I think Practice Portuguese is a definite ‘go to’ to have alongside before, during and after any course!
I wish I had started using it much earlier on…I can’t praise Practice Portuguese enough for style, format, content and user friendliness!
Thank you for the hard work
location: Netherlands
posted: July 6, 2024
Name: Zinzy
Just wanted to say thank you for the hard work you do on this product. I’m so pleased something like this exists. I’m a product designer, and…I’m impressed by the interaction design of the iOS app.
No other Portuguese apps come close
location: England
posted: June 23, 2024
Name: Adam
My Portuguese has improved significantly, and I genuinely appreciate the effort put into making such an excellent tool for language learning … I absolutely love this app, and I have only you to thank for my progress. No other Portuguese apps come close to the detail, quality, and explanation that yours provides.
Útil
location: Egypt
posted: June 19, 2024
Name: Ali
Tenho agradecer o seu canal que é em premeira lugar mais útil para estudantes estrangeiros quem querem aprender português europeu, por quem estudam sozinhos, é mesmo podem se utilizar como curso intensivo
Well thought out
posted: June 17, 2024
Name: Francis
Thank you for your cheerful, well thought out and practical learning method.
Absolutely the best
posted: June 3, 2024
Name: Larry
This is absolutely the best online language educational course that exists. These people are very involved and personally passionate about what they doing.
Content with real conversations
location: Portugal
posted: June 2, 2024
Name: Doug
I just wanted to tell you how much I love everything you all do. Estou a aprender Português e a aplicação é a melhor! I tell all of my expat friends here in Porto to become members! I also love the recent podcasts and short videos you are posting to TikTok! The content with real conversations are awesome! Keep up the great work!! 😊😊👍
Absolutely wonderful
posted: May 13, 2024
Name: Renee
The Practice Portuguese program is absolutely wonderful – I have taught ESL years ago and the PP app uses so many wonderful second language learning aides.
Details
posted: May 4, 2024
Name: Maryam
I really appreciate all the small details that you did not forget to explain it for us, you make my Portuguese learning journey much easier. Muito Obrigada!
Far superior
posted: April 18, 2024
Name: Kevin
Your language learning site and app is far superior in its organization and execution compared to any of the many alternatives I have evaluated for various languages, and it is really the best anyone could hope for to learn European Portuguese.
So much content
location: Portugal
posted: April 15, 2024
Name: Peter
Explanation of nuance
posted: April 13, 2024
Name: Larry
I am so happy to have subscribed to this program. No other offers the explanation of nuance in words and phrases that unique to European Portuguese.
Significantly improved
location: U.S.A.
posted: March 27, 2024
Name: Kyle
I found this app because I want to be able to interact and contribute with my coworkers in business meetings. Your app, and content, have significantly improved my Portuguese.
You make learning fun
location: U.S.A.
posted: March 11, 2024
Name: Marcia
You make learning fun and your attentiveness to questions and suggestions is wonderful.
Fill gaps in my knowledge
location: Portugal
posted: March 10, 2024
Name: Kevin
I’ve lived in Portugal for eleven years now, and although I can function here in society using my Portuguese … I am already seeing that even your earliest lessons can fill gaps in my knowledge or usefully reinforce things. It looks like your program will be a great help to fulfill my obligation to my companheira to master her language better … Thank you very much for this excellent resource with comprehensible input to use at beginning and intermediate levels. You have done many people a great service with this!
Keeping the learner’s perspective in mind
posted: March 5, 2024
Name: Andrea
Really appreciate your responsiveness and very service oriented attitude. It’s remarkable how the website has been created with keeping the learner’s perspective in mind. Very user friendly and flexible and helpful.
Blue ribbon
posted: March 5, 2024
Name: Tina
You all have a wonderful product and an even more amazing customer service ethic. I’ve consulted to businesses around the world for 40 years. You take home the blue ribbon!
Efficient
posted: March 2, 2024
Name: Ronald
Specific to European Portuguese
location: U.S.A.
posted: March 1, 2024
Name: Mavis
I had the pleasure of visiting Portugal exactly one year ago today and fell in love with your amazing country. To prepare for that trip, I’d tried to teach myself Portuguese with DuoLingo and Rosetta Stone but sadly was very surprised when I got to Portugal and realized how different so much of the vocab and the accents are! I was determined to come home and learn European Portuguese, so while that meant much starting over from the beginning, I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have found your wonderful website & app (I’m also listening to your podcast as I type this!). To my knowledge, you’re the only people providing such detailed & helpful resources specific to European Portuguese (I especially appreciate the detailed language lessons that come with each unit–something that’s very hard to find with any other language learning site!).
Passed the B1 CAPLE test
posted: February 13, 2024
Name: Moty
I have been going through the units and I learned a lot from this website. I completed all of the units and all the shorties that were available up to more or less October of last year. I even passed the B1 CAPLE official test with great scores.
The best thing since sliced pão!
location: France
posted: February 9, 2024
Name: Johanne
This app is the best thing since sliced pão! I have tried others that advertised Portuguese but it was always Brazilian. Not to mention how lessons are set up, reviews and all the other features that make Practice Portuguese so much fun! Being French, I am used to gender and different verb endings. But pronunciation is a whole other ball game. Bravo! Obrigada!
I can’t get over the quality
posted: January 25, 2024
Name: Elliott
I can’t get over the quality of the program – not only the effectiveness of the teaching methodology, but how much thought has gone into anticipating and answering questions. It’s very impressive. On top of that, the responsiveness of you and your team is remarkable.
Best possible online program
posted: January 22, 2024
Name: Jon
I firmly believe that your program is the best possible online program for self-study and far surpasses everything else that is out there. Your curriculum is good, the lesson size is good, explanations are great, the stories/dialogues are wonderful and inventive and the smart review makes it possible for students to master and use what they learn. … Whatever you do, keep up the great work. Thanks to working daily with your program for sixteen months, the first online tutor I tried out didn’t know what to do with me.
Extremely helpful
location: UK
posted: January 19, 2024
Name: Christopher
Being an absolute beginner, I like and appreciate how you have structured your website. In particular the audio playback in both slow and normal modes, is extremely helpful.