Our Brazilian Portuguese Course Content

If you’re thinking about learning Brazilian Portuguese, a few questions probably come to mind:

• “Will I actually be able to have real conversations?”

• “Will the course be too rigid?”

• “Will the content match what I need Portuguese for?”

  
  

The short answer: yes — you will learn to communicate, and the course adapts to you.

Our programme has a strong structure (because learning a language requires a clear method), but the pace and content are always adapted to each student’s reality.

If you progress quickly, we move faster. If you need more revision, we slow down. If your interests change - perhaps from travel to work or family - we adapt the content accordingly.

The goal is simple: to help you use Portuguese confidently in real life.

Let’s take a look at what you’ll learn throughout the course.

Please note that we have chosen to keep some secrets on this "Our Brazilian Portuguese Course Content" to surprise you from time to time. So I few topics, music exercises and videos were kept secret here. So you will never see them coming ;)

Our Brazilian Portuguese Course Content

🌱 Beginner Course – Building the foundations of Portuguese

Here you start from scratch and quickly move towards communicating in everyday situations.

Unit 1 — First steps in Portuguese

You begin by learning how to manage basic communication from day one:

• Good morning, good afternoon, good evening

• Essential survival expressions

• The alphabet and pronunciation

• Spelling words and understanding accents

• The famous Brazilian R pronunciation

• Important abbreviations and acronyms

Unit 2 — Introducing yourself and meeting people

Here you start interacting with Brazilians.

• Greetings

• Formal and informal introductions

• Saying goodbye

• Business cards

• Personal pronouns

• The verbs ser, ter and estar

• Opposite adjectives

Unit 3 — Talking about people and feelings

You begin to describe people and emotions.

• Feelings

• Personality and character

• The gerund

• Physical exercise

• Olympic sports

Unit 4 — Numbers, shopping and quantities

You start handling practical situations.

• Cardinal numbers

• Asking about prices

• Talking about quantities

• Shopping at markets

• Plural nouns

• Possessive adjectives

Unit 5 — People, countries and preferences

You start talking more about yourself and others.

• Days of the week

• Countries, nationalities and languages

• Introducing people

• Family

• Regular verbs in the present tense

• The verb gostar (to like)m precisar (to need) and Regência Verbal of other verbs

Unit 6 — Routine and daily life

Conversations begin to flow more naturally.

• Brazilian music styles

• Question words

• Irregular verbs in the present

• Daily routines

• Telling the time

• Professions

Unit 7 — Talking about the past and making plans

You learn how to discuss past events and future plans.

• Months and seasons

• The weather

• Talking about history

• Past tense (regular and irregular verbs)

• Past perfect vs imperfect

• Making, accepting and declining invitations

• Expressing the future with ir + infinitive

Unit 8 — Food and flavours

One of the students’ favourite parts!

• Daily meals

• Talking about possibilities (conditional)

• Breakfast foods around the world

• Describing flavours and textures

• Fruits, vegetables and greens

• Typical foods

Unit 9 — Restaurants and public places

You learn how to manage confidently when eating out.

• Types of food

• Quick snacks

• Types of restaurants

• Ordering food

• Restaurant dialogues

• Making polite complaints

• Public establishments

• Reflexive verbs

Unit 10 — Home and space

Now you can describe environments and locations.

• Ordinal numbers

• Types of housing

• Parts of the house

• Furniture and household items

• Adverbs of place

• Describing objects and rooms

🌿 Intermediate Course – Expanding communication

At this stage the focus shifts towards more natural conversation and more complex expression.

Unit 11

• Important prepositions

• Places in the city

• Asking for directions

• Hotels

• Transport and taxis

Unit 12

• Leisure activities

• Celebrations

• Future tense

• Promises and predictions

• Clothing and accessories

• Diminutives and augmentatives

Unit 13

• Parts of the body

• Health and symptoms

• Medical specialities

• Personal and impersonal infinitive

Unit 14

• Comparisons

• Superlatives

• Imperfect past tense

Unit 15

• The imperative

• Recipes and cooking verbs

• Signs and warnings

• Conjunctions

• Accentuation

Unit 16

• Object pronouns

• Cinema and television

• Prefixes

• Adjective order

Unit 17

• Expressing opinions

• Relative pronouns

• Active and passive voice

• Written communication

🌳 Mastering the Subjunctive — A major step towards fluency

In the following units, students learn one of the most important aspects of Portuguese: the subjunctive mood.

Unit 18

Present subjunctive

Unit 19

Present perfect subjunctive

Unit 20

Imperfect subjunctive

Unit 21

Future subjunctive

Unit 22

Complete revision of the subjunctive

🚀 What happens after Unit 22?

At this point, we do something very important.

We assess each student individually.

From there, we decide together on the best programme moving forward, such as:

• Advanced Portuguese

• Proficiency-level Portuguese

Because every student has different goals:

• speaking with Brazilian family members

• travelling with confidence

• working with Brazilian companies

• understanding Brazilian culture, music and cinema

• living in Brazil

🎯 What makes this course different

The programme is structured, but never rigid.

Throughout the course we:

✔ adapt the pace

✔ revise when necessary

✔ add new content when useful

✔ shift the focus as your goals evolve

In other words:

the course grows with you.

✨ Interested in joining?

If you’d like to learn Brazilian Portuguese in a structured, practical and personalised way, this course may be exactly what you’re looking for.

👉 Visit our booking page find out about upcoming groups or private lessons.