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Travel Portuguese the Brazilian Way

Travel Brazil in Brazil’s own Portuguese: greetings, ordering, the bill, buses, taxis, directions, the hotel, shops, the cash machine, emergencies and prices in reais.

4 modules

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What it teaches

Enough Brazilian Portuguese to get through a trip to Brazil: hello at the right time of day (bom dia, boa tarde, boa noite), obrigado or obrigada, please and excuse me, what to say when you’re stuck, then ordering, asking for the bill, bus and train tickets, taxis, directions, the hotel, shops, the cash machine, and emergencies, all in Brazil’s words (banheiro, cardápio, garçom, ônibus); reading the signs you’ll meet (including PUXE, which means pull); and hearing and saying prices in reais. The AI asks 3 questions, places you, shows a short card, then gives you one situation, sign or price at a time.

How long

70 items. About 35-55 rounds for a beginner, less with some Spanish or Portuguese, plus a 9-item final: 2 sessions (estimate, not timed with a real student). Trip mode is about 40 rounds. The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session.

The modules

4 modules, drilled one item at a time.

  1. M0

    Core

    Hello at the right time of day, please, obrigado / obrigada and rescue phrases

  2. M1

    Say it

    Say it: type the Portuguese for a situation

  3. M2

    Understand

    Understand a sign or a reply

  4. M3

    Numbers

    Prices in Portuguese numbers

Before it teaches, it asks

  1. 1
    When is your trip, and how much Portuguese do you have: none, a few words, some Spanish or school Portuguese, or you can get by?
  2. 2
    Three quick ones, type what you’d say in Portuguese, best guess is fine: (a) ask the waiter for the bill, (b) ask how much something costs, (c) say you don’t understand.
  3. 3
    FECHADO

What’s exact, and what isn’t

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Straight from the course’s own notes.

Two sources must agree on every phrase
Each item is tied to a line of Wikivoyage’s Brazilian Portuguese phrasebook (every word of its Model is on that line, plus por favor or a listed fill word), and to English Wiktionary (an English phrase entry translated as that phrase, or the Portuguese word’s own entry with that meaning). Lines on the page that read as European Portuguese or garbled were left out.
Numbers
Every drilled number checked against its own Wiktionary entry and two pieces of code (one builds the words, one reads them back) that agree on 16-99; the teens, tens and 21-23 are from the phrasebook.
Sourced
3 short quotes from the phrasebook (meia for six, PUXE, how to ask the way) and the emergency numbers from Wikipedia’s list, matched word for word on the live pages 2026-10-11.
Checked by rule (the tutor's reading)
What you type in M0 and M1: right meaning + the key words + polite on requests. Small slips pass with a Fix; accents, tildes, capitals and punctuation are never graded. Correct Portuguese that isn’t listed counts as right: a judgment call.
Honest limits
Typed only: it can’t hear you or say anything aloud. Brazil’s Portuguese; Portugal’s forms count as right but aren’t taught. A few Models join two of the phrasebook’s lines (e.g. Leve-me para o aeroporto = “Take me to...” + “the airport”).
Not in it yet
Role-plays with a waiter or a clerk (the phrasebook gives the traveller’s lines, not theirs), times and dates, pronunciation.