Learn the Portuguese of Portugal
Most courses teach Brazilian Portuguese. This one teaches what you will actually hear in Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve: European Portuguese, in English, for people moving here or visiting.
Tap a tile
Twenty-four words and phrases you will use in the first week. Tap a tile to turn it over and hear it.
What is inside
Pronunciation lab
Watch the tongue, hear the nasal vowels, record yourself and compare.
Real-life scenarios
The café, bank, Finanças, flat, pharmacy, doctor, supermarket and train, as conversations you steer.
Visual grammar
Ser or estar, verb tables with audio, the personal infinitive, and a gender helper.
Flashcards
117 cards with spaced repetition. Progress stays in your browser.
Not Brazilian
Autocarro, not ônibus. What changes in words, grammar and sound.
Why European Portuguese?
The sounds are different
Unstressed vowels get swallowed, the final "s" becomes "sh", and nasal vowels are everywhere. Apps trained on Brazilian audio will not prepare you for a conversation at the counter in Lisbon.
So is some of the vocabulary
A bus is an autocarro, a train a comboio, a mobile a telemóvel. And a few words are fine in one country and rude in the other. See the cheat sheet.
Planning a visit or a move? tourists.pt covers tickets, taxes and emergencies, and agendar.pt helps you book public-service appointments. Here we teach the language you will use there.
European Portuguese (pt-PT). Pronunciations follow Wiktionary's European Portuguese entries and standard dictionaries such as Infopédia and Priberam. Last reviewed 6 November 2026. Not yet reviewed by a native-speaker teacher: it is a learning tool, not a replacement for one. What was checked.