Learn Portuguese by talking

Verbsy is a speaking-first Portuguese tutor you talk to out loud. It listens, answers, corrects what you got wrong, and remembers it for next time.

Portuguese splits into two quite different-sounding languages, and courses often leave you with the wrong one for the people you actually talk to. Verbsy asks you which you want before you start.

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A Portuguese conversation in the Verbsy app

What you can practise in Portuguese

Order a coffee and a pastel de nata in Lisbon without repeating yourself.
Get through a work call with Brazilian colleagues.
Talk with family who never switch to English.

Choose your Portuguese

Pick the accent or script you want. Your choice changes the tutor’s voice and the words it teaches, and you can switch whenever you like.

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How learning Portuguese with Verbsy works

1
Tell the tutor what you want to be able to do in Portuguese — order dinner, get through an interview, talk to family. It turns that into a goal with concrete steps.
2
Talk. Put your phone in your pocket and speak through your headphones while you walk or cook. The tutor answers out loud and corrects you as you go.
3
The words you stumbled on become flashcards drawn from your own conversations, and five skills are scored from how you actually spoke.

Portuguese questions

Both. Choose European or Brazilian Portuguese and the tutor’s accent, rhythm and vocabulary follow your choice. You can switch at any time.

By saying them to someone who reacts. The tutor answers what it heard, so a mispronounced ão is obvious immediately, and the words you keep missing come back later.

Yes. Beginners get slower speech, simpler sentences and more support in a language you already know, and the tutor moves further into Portuguese as you keep up. You do have to be willing to speak from the first session — that is the whole method.

Verbsy is free to download and your first 30 minutes of conversation are free. That is a one-off allowance rather than a daily one. Verbsy Premium unlocks an hour of conversation a day at the price shown in the app.

No. Verbsy is built to be used with the screen off, through your headphones, while you commute, cook or walk. It is an iPhone app and needs iOS 16.1 or later.

Other languages you can learn

Verbsy teaches 16 languages. Same tutor, same hands-free conversations.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianDutchRussianMandarin ChineseJapaneseKoreanArabicHindiPolishTurkishVietnamese

Start speaking Portuguese today

Download Verbsy and have your first Portuguese conversation in the next five minutes. The first 30 minutes are free.

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