Learn Brazilian Portuguese free

Learn Brazilian Portuguese with sentences, audio and English explanations. Build your own vocabulary and practise free in your browser or on your phone.

How Portuguese lessons work

Your starting point

Begin with the words you still need to learn.

Your words

Keep useful vocabulary from your own reading and listening.

Practice

Review words and practise your mistakes.

Sprint

Recall translations in a 60-second round.

Learn Brazilian Portuguese online — sentences and vocabulary

Fluera is a free app for learning Brazilian Portuguese through short lessons, sentence exercises and a personal vocabulary. The course follows Brazilian pronunciation and everyday usage, with English explanations to help you understand how the language works.

Learn Portuguese online in your browser or continue on your phone with the same account. Course words, ready-made lists and vocabulary imported from your own materials all live in one dictionary, so every part of your practice follows the same progress.

How to start learning Brazilian Portuguese

Begin with situations you can picture: greeting someone, ordering food, asking a price or explaining where you want to go. A small set of useful words gives each lesson a clear purpose. Fluera introduces vocabulary in sentences, so you can connect a word with its article, its neighbors and the message it helps express.

The course uses Brazilian Portuguese. That choice gives you a consistent starting point for pronunciation and everyday expressions, while leaving room to notice other varieties as you encounter them. If you also listen to speakers from Portugal, expect differences in sound and usage rather than assuming every unfamiliar version is a mistake.

You can start with your first words or build on Portuguese you already know. Mark familiar vocabulary as known and focus on what still needs practice. A short lesson can reveal whether a word is difficult to recognize, spell or understand in audio; that specific observation gives your next session a useful direction.

A Portuguese course with English explanations

The course organizes words around everyday topics such as home, family, shopping, travel, health and work. Short lessons provide a route you can follow without preparing your own study material each time. Words appear in activities that ask you to read, listen, complete a sentence or reconstruct its meaning, depending on the content.

English grammar explanations help you connect the sentence with a pattern. You can see how a question works, why a verb changes or what an article tells you about a noun. Returning to an example after reading the explanation turns an abstract rule into something you can look for in the next exercise.

Your personal needs can sit alongside the course. A trip to Brazil, a recipe or a work project might call for words outside your current topic. Add them to a list and study them through the same vocabulary system. Their progress stays with the word when it appears again in a lesson or another activity.

Portuguese words, articles and verbs in context

Portuguese nouns have grammatical gender, so an English translation does not tell you which article to use. Learn o livro, the book, and a casa, the house, as combinations rather than stripping away the small words. A complete sentence also shows how an adjective relates to the noun and which ending belongs in that context.

Verbs change with the person and the time being described. Eu tenho um livro means I have a book, but recognizing tenho also connects that sentence with the dictionary form ter. Seeing and using forms in context helps you treat them as parts of the same language pattern instead of unrelated items to memorize.

Some meanings shared by one English verb are expressed differently in Portuguese. Ser and estar can both correspond to be, depending on the situation. Read the whole statement and use the explanation to understand its purpose. Sentence exercises let you practice that choice while working with the vocabulary you are already learning.

Listen to Brazilian Portuguese and connect sounds with spelling

Brazilian Portuguese includes sounds that English spelling habits do not prepare you for. Words such as pão contain a nasal vowel, while letter combinations such as nh and lh deserve their own listening attention. Play the available audio and follow the written word so that its appearance becomes linked with a real pronunciation model.

Brazil also has regional variation. A course provides a consistent reference, but one recording cannot represent every speaker or every city. Start by recognizing the words in the material you are studying. As you encounter other voices, use familiar vocabulary and context to help you notice differences without losing the meaning of the sentence.

If you have studied Spanish, related vocabulary can make Portuguese reading feel approachable. Check pronunciation and usage before treating similar words as interchangeable. Listening, reading and writing offer different checks on what you know: a word that looks obvious may still need practice before you recognize it in an audio exercise.

Build a Portuguese vocabulary from your own materials

A fixed course cannot predict every word you need. Paste a Portuguese article, recipe, email or other text into Fluera and choose the vocabulary worth keeping. The importer highlights words you already know and ranks the remaining options so you can focus on useful items instead of collecting every rare name or one-off term.

You can also search for a Portuguese word directly or add entries one by one. A word card brings together its translation, pronunciation, forms and usage examples. Inflected forms are connected with the same dictionary entry, so learning a form inside a sentence strengthens the word you are actually studying instead of creating a duplicate card.

Course words and personal words share one learning history. If you master a word from an imported list, the course does not treat it as new later. If you answer it incorrectly in another activity, it can return in focused practice. Your dictionary remains the single place where that progress is recorded.

Learn Portuguese with songs and videos

Songs and videos are useful when you want vocabulary connected with material you genuinely enjoy. Enter an artist and song title to extract words from available lyrics, or paste a YouTube link so Fluera can turn its transcript into a list of Portuguese vocabulary to inspect.

You stay in control of the result. Skip familiar words, choose how many new items to add and leave names or unusually narrow terms behind. The selected words join the same dictionary and sentence practice as words from the course, rather than becoming a separate deck that is easy to forget.

Fluera is not a video player with interactive subtitles. Watch or listen wherever you normally would, then use Fluera to study the vocabulary you selected. This keeps the learning task focused: the source gives the words context, while the app turns those words into repeatable exercises.

Portuguese word lists for a specific goal

Ready-made and community word lists offer a direct route into a topic. You can choose vocabulary for travel, food, work or another practical situation, inspect the entries and start a focused study session without waiting to reach that theme in the course.

When the right list does not exist, build one in the spreadsheet-style editor, add words through search or describe the vocabulary you need in plain language. A list can support a trip to São Paulo, a class, a book, a professional project or any personal interest that gives you a reason to use Portuguese.

List study is configurable. Choose which word statuses to include, how many words to take into a session, whether to show introductory cards and which exercise types to use. You can share a list by link, and another learner can make a personal copy without changing your original.

Learn Portuguese free in the browser or app

Fluera is free to use. You can open the Portuguese course in a modern browser and complete the first lessons as a guest, which makes it easy to see how sentence-based vocabulary practice feels before creating an account.

If you decide to continue, sign up and keep the progress from your guest session. An account makes your vocabulary and learning history available across devices, so the words you study on your phone are the same words waiting for you when you return in a browser.

The mobile app is available for iPhone and Android, while the web version works without an installation. The learning experience follows the same core model on each device: lessons, one personal dictionary, focused review, mistakes and quick recall practice.

Make Portuguese practice fit your day

Consistency matters more than an occasional long session. A short lesson is easier to repeat tomorrow, and each completed group of words gives you a concrete result. You can stop after one lesson or continue when you have more time; the app does not require a fixed timetable.

Words move through clear states as you work with them. Three successful answers on different days mark a word as learned, and it then leaves the regular queue instead of returning forever. Words that still need attention remain visible, so the dictionary shows what is changing rather than hiding progress behind a generic score.

A streak records the days on which you study. Optional reminders are tied to that learning day and respect quiet hours: once you have completed something, there is no reason to send another prompt. A home-screen widget can also show the streak without requiring you to open the app first.

Review Portuguese words, fix mistakes and play Sprint

Review builds a focused session from words that are ready to be reinforced. It does not make you repeat an entire course topic just to reach the few items that need another attempt. Because every source writes to the same dictionary, a due word can come from a lesson, a custom list, a song or a text import.

Mistakes gives incorrect answers their own place. If a Portuguese article, verb form or translation caused trouble, you can work on that word directly instead of hoping it appears again by chance. The same sentence exercises provide new attempts while the shared word status records the result.

Sprint is a 60-second recall round for words you already know. It is useful as a warm-up or for a day when a full lesson does not fit, but it does not replace explanations and contextual practice. It adds a faster rhythm to the same vocabulary rather than creating a separate game collection.

A Portuguese learning app built around your vocabulary

Many language courses decide exactly which word comes next, while flashcard tools expect you to create and maintain every deck yourself. Fluera connects both approaches: follow a structured Portuguese course when you want guidance, then add the words that matter to your own life without leaving the learning system.

The unit of progress is the word. You can see whether it is new, being learned, waiting for review or already known. Lessons, lists, Review, Mistakes and Sprint all read and update that same state, which prevents the duplicate queues that appear when course study and personal flashcards are kept apart.

If you want to learn Portuguese through practical sentences while still choosing your own vocabulary, start with a guest lesson. Explore the course, listen to the words and try the exercises; when you are ready, an account keeps the same dictionary available on your phone and in the browser.