We invite you to explore some of the feedback we have been receiving from our members.

This is the kind of support that keep us growing Practice Portuguese! What do you think of our work so far? 

Note: Positive listener reviews and ratings from each country are vital to growing our community, and allows us to continue growing this project. If you happen to have any constructive criticism or suggestions for improvement, please email us so we have a chance to respond to your concerns. 

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Learning so much

Name: Amy

Thanks for your constant work to keep making content. I am learning so much!

Really good structure

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

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

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

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

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

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

Name: John

We love your website and teaching mode. It makes learning fun!

Absolutamente incrível

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‘

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

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

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

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

Name: Francis

Thank you for your cheerful, well thought out and practical learning method.

Absolutely the best

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

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

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

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

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

Name: Peter

It is astonishing how you manage to put together so much content, organize it, and create an app that leaves behind even the likes of Duolingo.

Explanation of nuance

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

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

Name: Marcia

You make learning fun and your attentiveness to questions and suggestions is wonderful.

Fill gaps in my knowledge

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

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

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

Name: Ronald

The method you developed is very efficient and really recommendable.

Specific to European Portuguese

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Beyond belief

Name: Judy

I am so impressed with Practice Português. I first I was just grateful that Joel and Rui had made it up and with such humor and style. Now that it has grown and grown it is beyond belief. The whole team … right on time and really helpful.

OMG

Name: Erica

OMG This is the best program on the market by 1000%

Complemented on my accent

Name: Colleen

Not only Halve I found it super helpful, but I have been complemented on my accent 😉 and I have you all to think for it.

Human attention

Name: Elias

I like the human attention from Practice Portuguese. I can ask a question or suggest something, and I always get a meaningful reply, reasonably quickly.

Meaningful interactions

Name: Eric

Thank you for your wonderful language program which I thoroughly enjoyed. My goals were limited: to speak enough Portuguese to function in restaurants, grocery stores, asking directions as I walked the Caminho Portugûes this past October.
The Portuguese I learned helped me to have many meaningful interactions during our stay in Portugal, in many situations that would have been frustrating if I had not known basic Portuguese. People were generally very happy that I had taken the time and effort to learn Portuguese. In fact, most people were completely surprised, impressed and pleased … even a little language learning can transform a visit into a higher level experience in which their is true connection and sharing of experiences with locals rather than being a tourist who never meets anyone.

I understand so much

Name: Alexandra

For Christmas I made a list for everything I am thankful this year. And your App is a huuuuuge point on that list. I came here to study and was afraid because every single lecture is in Portuguese. I started studying 3 months before I came here. And even though speaking is very hard, I understand so much and it helped a lot with my anxiety

I’m doing really good

Name: Arun

You guys are really means alot to me, i used to face a lotta problems in here by langauge, now i started learning from you guys and im doing really good

The only serious app to learn European Portuguese

Name: Thomas

Thank you guys for all the awesome content and learning material you put out on this website and on youtube. As far as I know this is the only serious app to learn European Portuguese and it happens to be super well made and your passion for teaching language transpires through it.

Real Portuguese

Name: Greg

By the way your site is fantastic!!! It is perfect for my style of learning and it is full of real Portuguese. … The most useful thing on your site is where you have a short video of somebody saying a phrase naturally. It really helps to mimic the lip and mouth movements and shapes. It is short so it can be copied and practiced. That is great!

Improved by leaps and bounds

Name: S.J.

Your course is brilliant and my pronunciation has improved by leaps and bounds. I can actually make myself understood (most times) now, thanks to your wonderful course.

We passed!

Name: Beatriz

My husband and I subscribed to Practice Portuguese from April to September in preparation for our CIPLE 2 test in September. We just found out we passed! Could not have done it without you! Your program is very well structured and engaging. The interactive nature is great as one progresses from level to level adding grammar and vocabulary, loved it! The listening part is key for passing the test!!! Thanks for helping us pass the exam! We would highly recommend your program to anyone

Muito divertido

Name: Isabel

É muito bom e muito divertido – aprender é mais fácil quando se ri 🙂

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