Invaluable
location: UK
posted: January 18, 2021
Name: Barbara
Thank you for your fabulous site. It continues to be invaluable in my quest to integrate into real (as opposed to tourist) life on the Algarve.
Incredibly helpful
location: U.S.A.
posted: January 15, 2021
Name: Ann
Your podcasts using contributions of other students audioclips and then the way you explain what you are hearing is just an incredibly helpful tool… These exercises are helping me train my ears and really focus on important details for pronouncing and linking words. Actually, all aspects of PracticePortuguese’s teaching methods has been super, from the online lessons to the Shorties and the longer podcasts and You Tube videos. Please keep doing all of it, these are all such valuable tools for teaching and learning Portuguese and makes me want to keep trying to learn, understand and speak!!
Keeping up with current events
location: U.S.A.
posted: January 12, 2021
Name: Justin
You are always on top of updating your lessons and references to keep up with current events and practices, such as pandemic impact. Absolutely love your product and PLEASE keep it up! You really do have something very special here.
THE ideal learning studio
posted: January 11, 2021
Name: Christine
Love your approach and have the impression that I finally found THE ideal learning studio for me!
Wish I had found it sooner
posted: January 9, 2021
Name: Jennifer
A huge thank you, from this beginner to you, for this fantastic site. I wish I had found it sooner!
Our virtual friends in lockdown
location: France
posted: January 8, 2021
Name: Catherine
We are fast becoming huge fans of your website, following you on the Camino and trying to do our lessons everyday. It’s a big help since we cannot really meet people and make friends here in Evora at the moment with the pandemic… You are so thorough and fun and helpful, thank you!!!! We even enjoy watching the videos and shorties over dinner, you have become our virtual friends in lockdown.
Best online materials for Portuguese
location: Japan
posted: January 6, 2021
Name: Yuri
I love your videos, I found them to be very helpful for improving my Portuguese skill. Thank you very much for the great shorties and videos you create. Your shorties have helped me a lot… They are definitely the best online materials for Portuguese learners I have ever had.
Fantastic combination of information and interactivity
posted: January 5, 2021
Name: Alexandra
You guys are fantastic! I’m a language teacher and I spend a good amount of time in Portugal (where my retired mother lives). I hope to retire there (not soon enough) too! Your site is a fantastic combination of information and interactivity. I really appreciate the attention to detail. Obrigada!
Empowering
location: U.S.A.
posted: December 28, 2020
Name: Tim
Congratulations on your amazing journey with Practice Portuguese. As someone who’s been a member from pretty early on, it’s remarkable to see how much you have accomplished (and how much I’ve learned because of your empowering work and care). PP has helped me fulfill that educational and familial “void” I have felt. My long way of saying: you guys rock and help/empower people more than you realize.
Dedication and love
location: Niue
posted: December 25, 2020
Name: Jan
I was touched by your dedication to help us to really get into the practicalities. I have done many other courses, like babbel etc, but these I found so mechanistic. In yours I detect dedication and much love, thank you, it is so fun!
Day wouldn’t be complete
location: UK
posted: December 25, 2020
Name: Richard
The day wouldn’t be complete without listening to a Shorty!
Progressing at last
location: UK
posted: December 25, 2020
Name: Alan
I subscribe to your Practice Portuguese course and are enjoying it immensely. I really feel that I’m progressing at last…. Thank you.
A national treasure for Portugal
location: South Africa
posted: December 23, 2020
Name: Jorge
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you with your PP website, it has grown in leaps and bounds. Rui, you and Joel and the team that you have been able to put together around you, are working like a well oiled machine, and at a much higher level of output. Thanks for what you Rui and Joel are doing, you are a national treasure for Portugal, especially with regards to European Porteguese.
No other tool compares
location: U.S.A.
posted: December 22, 2020
Name: Emily
You’ve taught me gobs about the intricacies of Mediterranean Portuguese that I would otherwise miss, as there’s no other teaching tool out there that compares to what you guys do online to fine-tune my Portuguese.
Realistic
location: U.S.A.
posted: December 18, 2020
Name: Whit
I do really commend PracticePortuguese for including these realistic videos of how real people speak IN ADDITION TO the distinctly spoken recordings and also the (extremely useful) tortoise speed ones. Having all three sound samples is a brilliant idea.
Rosetta Stone, only better
posted: December 11, 2020
Name: Boguslaw
Very enjoyable
posted: December 11, 2020
Name: Konstantin
I just started learning PR. I’m having a ton of fun. For the first time ever I don’t need to write anything down. And you’ve made the learning process very enjoyable.
Highly recommend
location: Portugal
posted: December 10, 2020
Name: Shania
Highly recommend to check out the PracticePortuguese website and Podcast! Friendliest way to learn European Portuguese with a responsive and supportive team!
My ears are getting tuned in to the language
location: South Africa
posted: December 9, 2020
Name: Margit
Your course is excellent – my ears are getting tuned in to the language. Suddenly I find that I understand heaps of what previously was one long flow of schhhhh schhhhh sounds. I am moving to Portugal in a year and want to speak the language reasonably well by then. I don’t think I would achieve that without your course, so thanks! 😊
User-friendly and fun
posted: December 7, 2020
Name: Gilles
The video version of your podcasts, with the legendas that pop up here and there make it very user-friendly and fun. And we all know that having fun makes the learning easier to understand and remember.
Reading, listening, speaking, writing neatly packaged in interesting and innovative ways
location: UK
posted: December 7, 2020
Name: Pat
You will find everything here you could possibly want to learn and practise Portuguese. I have been learning here for 2 years and am writing this because I am still full of enthusiasm and just want to share my delight at what the team here are doing ! [As a] retired French teacher, I find all the key elements (Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing) neatly packaged in interesting and innovative ways. Culture, Humour, up-to-date language, support is personalised and I quickly felt that the team felt like a small, friendly family.
Leaving Memrise
posted: December 6, 2020
Name: Ann
I am a dedicated learner with Practice Portuguese and am leaving Memrise because I find that your learning studio is an excellent fit. Thank you! Practice Portuguese is amazing!
Variety of content, sense of community
location: UK
posted: December 6, 2020
Name: Kim
I just wanted to take the time to let you know how useful I am finding this website, but also how much fun. The variety of content means there is always something I can tap into, no matter how little time I have.
Life is so difficult for so many people at the moment and personally, I find your Practice Portuguese a source of real escapism! I especially appreciate you allowing us to meet your family, providing a sense of community rather than just a language resource.
You make it fun
location: U.S.A.
posted: December 4, 2020
Name: Whit
I love your sense of humor. Traditional language learning can be drudgery but you make it fun.
Constant improving, interacting, and expanding
location: Australia
posted: December 2, 2020
Name: Cameron
Top-notch
location: U.S.A.
posted: December 2, 2020
Name: Kerry
This must have taken FOREVER to put together! I am very impressed. From one teacher to another, your site is top-notch and I am enjoying it very much.
Range of speakers at natural conversational speed
location: UK
posted: December 1, 2020
Name: Penny
I am finding the course very good. For me, and I suspect for most others, the thing that is most challenging is understanding what is being said by authentic Portuguese L1 speakers. The way you tackle this with snatches of language with a range of speakers at natural conversational speed, backed up with a clearer version by a teacher and a slow version is absolutely excellent…
It is very helpful in developing a feel for how the stress timing of the language affects the pronunciation. It’s so much better than being able to understand the teacher but no-one else!! I love that you use a wide variety of people in your videos and how some have background noise, helping us to develop the strategy of catching the key words and using logic to fill in the bits that are ‘swallowed’ by the speaker or masked by background noise.
You beat all others
location: Netherlands
posted: December 1, 2020
Name: Rolf
Leaps and bounds
location: Portugal
posted: December 1, 2020
Name: Edi
You have no idea how much I love your site and how much I appreciate all the help from all of the staff at Practice Portuguese. My Portuguese has really come on leaps and bounds, and it’s all thanks to you.
Amazing
posted: December 1, 2020
Name: Lewis
I have to say that practice Portuguese is an amazing amazing program. My wife and I especially enjoy the flashcards.
Best I have come across
posted: December 1, 2020
Name: Sharon
Really enjoy the Practice Portuguese lessons. It’s a great website, the best I have come across in my endeavor to learn Portuguese.
Already very effective
posted: December 1, 2020
Name: Greg
I’ve been learning European Portuguese through Practice Portuguese for only a few months now, but I’ve already found the site to be very effective.
Well put, concise, and clear
location: U.S.A.
posted: November 28, 2020
Name: Lauren
The sections are well defined, I love the videos of native Portuguese speakers saying phrases, the pronunciation is helpful, and the explanations of grammar are well put, concise, and clear.
So much fun
location: UK
posted: November 28, 2020
Name: Theresa
Love learning from you guys, the way you interact makes it so much fun.
Best way to learn this language online
location: Israel
posted: November 28, 2020
Name: Tom
This website is amazing! Learning is so much fun and i can always find lots of content! By far the best way to learn this language online! Thank you for that!
Detailed approach
location: U.S.A.
posted: November 27, 2020
Name: Robert
As a retired language teacher, I like your slow, detailed approach to explaining pronunciation. Very helpful. I also like your cheerful demeanor. You make learning the language very enjoyable. Obrigado!
Well explained, good examples
location: Switzerland
posted: November 26, 2020
Name: Jeannine
I realy like the different aproaches – hearing, reading, writing and the smart review halpt me a lot since I am a very lazy learner. I always had fun. The speaking feature where I can listen how the words are pronounced are very very good and very helpful. I like the humor in the shorties and the videos. Things are very well explained, good examples, makes it easy to undersand the basics. You all seem to have fun to work and produce for this website and that the students can feel. Thank you!
Excellent for pronunciation
location: Ireland
posted: November 22, 2020
Name: Siobhan
I find your podcasts excellent for pronunciation
Something for everyone, at every level
location: Portugal
posted: November 21, 2020
Name: Kathleen
I just wanted to say thanks for the great learning tool you have created, its a wonderful website, with something for everyone, at every level. I have recommended it to several people who have also taken out subscriptions. Personally I love the Shorties, they are fun and informative. I have just returned this week from a week in Madeira which was inspired by one of your “shorties”.
Keeps getting better and better
posted: November 20, 2020
Name: Declan
I thought it worth saying that the Practice Portuguese site just keeps getting better and better. In particular, I am finding the Units and the Smart Review Flash Cards to be very helpful!
Easier and funny
location: Italy
posted: November 20, 2020
Name: Giuseppe
Rui & Joel, you both are amazing! Thank you so much for making easier and funny the learning of Portuguese! I just started to listen to your podcast and found this “video cast” so good.
Discovering the culture of my family
location: U.S.A.
posted: November 18, 2020
Name: Travis
I am writing to say how much I love Practice Portuguese. It has been a really important part of my life as we are all struggling through this pandemic. I have Portuguese heritage on my moms side of the family…and being able to reconnect and discover more about the culture of my family has been amazing! I spend at least an hour every day working through the learning studio and I constantly listen to your podcasts while running, biking, driving etc… So thank you for doing all this, and I look forward to more podcasts! It really improves my headspace to be a part of the warm and kind energy you guys have created here!
Sorry I didn’t find you sooner
posted: November 12, 2020
Name: Jeff
Honestly, the site and all the tools are fantastic. I’m only sorry I didn’t find you sooner. I was studying for the CIPLE exam, and I had some private lessons leading up to the test (which was today) and my tutor recommended your site to help with my audio comprehension. I watched many of the videos for the past few days, and it was really helpful and impressive. If I had had this resource for the entirety of my learning process, I’d have been in much better shape than I was! Joel and Rui are adorable and charming, and the tools are excellent – all the audio with transcription and translations, the quizzes, the vocab and expressions, with different voices, at different levels, around different subjects… all amazing.
Thank heavens I found your site first
location: UK
posted: November 10, 2020
Name: Robert
Thank heavens I found your site first. I didn’t realise the differences were so great. If I had embarked on learning Brazilian Portuguese I would have had a lot of unlearning and confusion to contend with!
Authentically Portuguese
location: Netherlands
posted: November 10, 2020
Name: Rens
I see that Practice Portuguese is offering us a variety of voices some of which are more difficult to understand than others. But all of them authentically Portuguese… I see all this as a genuine quality of Practice Portuguese and appreciate it very much.