# Portuguese/Online resources

Legend: 🆓 free; 💰 paid including free limited trials

## Courses
### Comprehensive

These formal courses that cover all facets of language learning—grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, writing, speaking:
* 🆓 https://pptonline.acm.gov.pt - courses (A1–B2 level) from Portugal’s official High Commission for Migration 🇵🇹
* 💰 http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/en/activity-camoes/what-we-do/learn-portuguese/elearning - online courses from the Camões Institute (Portugal's official cultural institution), A1–C1+ level 🇵🇹
* 🆓/💰 https://www.portugueselab.com/ - A1–B2 level 🇵🇹
* 🆓/💰 http://www.portuguesdeportugal.pt - A1–B2 level 🇵🇹
* 💰 https://www.transparent.com/ 🇵🇹🇧🇷

### Live Teachers/Tutors

* 💰 https://portuguesewithcarla.com/ 🇵🇹
* 💰 https://www.portugueselab.com/ 🇵🇹
* 💰 http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/en/activity-camoes/what-we-do/learn-portuguese/elearning - Premium courses 🇵🇹
* 💰 www.tutorssaurus.com PT

### Multimedia

These courses primarily consist of audio or video content:
* 💰 http://www.michelthomas.com/learn-portuguese.php - audiobooks available on iTunes and Audible, A1/A2 level, excellent explanation of grammar 🇵🇹
* 🆓/💰 https://www.practiceportuguese.com/ 🇵🇹
* 💰 https://www.semantica-portuguese.com - all-video course 🇧🇷

### Flashcards

These courses primarily consist of interactive word/phrase translation:
* 🆓 Duolingo - based on flashcards (spaced repetition), A1/A2 level 🇧🇷
* 🆓+💰 Memrise - based on flashcards (spaced repetition) 🇧🇷🇵🇹
** User-created courses for vocabulary beyond the official contents

### Book-Like

These courses primarily consist of a traditional book structure:
* 🆓 Wikiversity Topic:Portuguese - Two more different courses on our sister site Wikiversity 🇧🇷🇵🇹
* 🆓 http://www.learningportuguese.co.uk/
* 🆓 http://www.fsi-language-courses.net/Portuguese.aspx - old 48-unit course developed by the US government, public domain

## Content
### Language Guides & Blogs

* https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Portuguese/Contents#Appendix_B_-_Grammar - this site’s grammar reference
* Wikipedia: Portuguese grammar - Wikipedia article; Wikipedia: Portuguese personal pronouns - tables of personal pronouns and possessives
* https://european-portuguese.info/ - pronunciation table, list of Portuguese-English cognates, etc. 🇵🇹
* https://www.practiceportuguese.com/vowels/ - interactive pronunciation table 🇵🇹
* http://www.cognates.org/research/mfcogn2.html - list of Portuguese-English cognates
* http://blogs.transparent.com/portuguese/ - language/grammar blog

### Podcasts & Videos

* 🆓/💰 https://www.portugueselab.com/ - A1–B2 podcasts and videos 🇵🇹
* 🆓+💰 https://portuguesewithcarla.com/podcasts/ 🇵🇹
* 🆓+💰 https://www.practiceportuguese.com/podcast-home/ 🇵🇹
* 🆓+💰 https://www.portuguesepod101.com - podcasts and videos 🇧🇷
* 🆓/💰 https://portcast.net/ - podcasts 🇧🇷🇵🇹
* 💰 https://streamnative.com - videos 🇧🇷🇵🇹
* 🆓 https://www.rtp.pt/play/ - on-demand streaming TV from Portugal's national broadcaster 🇵🇹 (note: need to use VPN e.g. http://hola.org)

## Tools
### Dictionaries, Translators, Tools

* 🆓 https://en.wiktionary.org/ - multilingual free dictionary
* 💰 https://dictionaries.io - for  Macs: Wiktionary integration in Dictionary app 🇧🇷🇵🇹
* 🆓 https://dicionario.priberam.org/ - Portuguese dictionary 🇵🇹
* 🆓 http://www.conjuga-me.net/ - verb conjugations
* 🆓 https://translate.google.com/ - multilingual word and phrase translation 🇧🇷
* 🆓 http://www.linguee.pt - multilingual phrase search 🇧🇷🇵🇹
* 🆓 http://www.corpusdoportugues.org - Portuguese frequency word lists
* 🆓+💰 https://readlang.com - Chrome/Firefox extension with in-context word translation and flashcards 🇧🇷

### Flashcards & Language Exercises

* 🆓 Tinycards - flashcard software (spaced repetition), super simple (good for small decks)
* 🆓+💰 Memrise - flashcard software (spaced repetition)
* 🆓+💰 Anki - flashcard software (spaced repetition), more advanced/complex
* 🆓 http://www.listeningpractice.org/start.php?lang=por - conjugation and listening/reading drills
* 🆓+💰 Português de Portugal 🇵🇹
* 🆓+💰 Fluent Forever app 🇧🇷

### Speech

* 🆓 https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25639 - for  Macs: use the built-in Speech feature to read any text 🇧🇷🇵🇹

## Language Exchange

Notable Portuguese community websites which might be good for learning portuguese. A way to meet people, practice the language, and learn the culture:
* http://portuguese.stackexchange.com/ - language Q&A
* https://www.tandem.net - for iOS and Android: language exchange app
* https://hinative.com/ - for iOS and Android: language exchange app
* https://www.italki.com/ - connecting students with teachers
* http://www.lang-8.com - language exchange site where native speakers correct what you write
* The Mixxer - Language Exchange site heavily populated with Portuguese speakers
* Orkut - Social networking site like myspace or facebook, which (for some reason) has a very high proportion of portugese speakers 🇧🇷

## See Also

* http://hackingportuguese.com/ - mostly 🇧🇷 but some 🇵🇹
* https://www.practiceportuguese.com/tools/ 🇵🇹
* https://juliedawnfox.com/learn-european-portuguese-free/ 🇵🇹
* http://www.learnportugueseinlisbon.com/portuguese-free-resources/
* http://www.atlaslisboa.com/learning-portuguese-tips/
* http://www.fluentu.com/portuguese/blog/