Top 8 best apps to learn Portuguese

Why invest in language courses when free mobile apps can teach you to speak fluent Portuguese?

You decided it was time to make this little trip to Lisbon or Porto ? Or, in great adventurer (or adventurer!) that you are, you embark on the exploration of Brazil the discovery of its heavenly beaches and the meeting of its warm inhabitants? But your mastery of the Portuguese smashes the neant or you need to dust all this?

Fortunately for you, thanks to your smartphone or tablet, you no longer need to ruin yourself by buying language classes: they now exist a flopa of apps to learn Portuguese, help you master it and talk it.

1. Babbel

Babbel was created in 2007, and the application allows to learn Portuguese as well as about 15 other online languages and has become one of the leaders in this field! Simple to use, it promises specialized learning according to your selection criteria. As well, whether you prepare a trip to Portugal or Brazil, or for professional reasons, the application will perfectly meet your expectations!

The courses are interactive: you have lessons for beginners and advanced, they adapt to your level as you move, allowing you to progress step by step following your starting level. You also have lessons of repetition, grammar and vocabulary to acquire the basis for a discussion through simple and useful phrases in everyday life.

Babbel also proposes to discover the culture of Brazil or Portugal. You will not only know the Portuguese language, but also learn more about its speakers, the inhabitants of these countries, their ways of living and seeing the world. Critical information to better communicate with them and make friends easier!

Especially as thanks to the voice recognition function, you will be able to perfect your pronunciation before you even get there. Guaranteed success in front of the premises!

Only flat: Although very complete, this Babbel app is paying. We'll have to pay a few. 5 € per month if you take the subscription to the year or 7.5 € per month if you take the 6-month subscription.

2. MosaLingua

MosaLingua is a mastodon of Portuguese learning applications, as in other foreign languages. Indeed, this small multi-platform application provides courses according to a method that has proven its evidence at the scientific level , the rehearsal spaced. The purpose of the application is to help you memorize words using vocabulary exercises.

To do this, MosaLingua uses some 3,000 cards with words as well as key phrases, which will be repeated unexpectedly through your evolution in levels, to help you memorize the maximum possible words.

For this application, you will have to pay 9,99 € per month , or opt for the formula 12 months to 59,99 € (or €4.99 per month) !

3. Mondly

In a few years, Mondly has become one of the real reference applications to learn a new language! Designed in 2013, the application is already complete for 33 languages.

Mondly’s real advantage is that she perfectly combines Babbel’s learning method with Duolingo’s, while presenting her own features! Here, you will learn your skills in written understanding as oral, vocabulary and grammar.

In addition, you can choose the setting in which you want to learn Portuguese. Going on vacation, learning for work or simply improving your skills, you have a choice! The real plus of the application lies in its intuitive chatbot, which will guide you throughout your learning process.

Price level, you will have the choice between a subscription 9,99 € for a month, and 47,99 € For a year. The application also offers many offers throughout the year. Otherwise, you can also choose the "subscription for life" version. 60 € , to never have to spend any more money.

4. FluentU

FluentU is the most in phase application with its time in our ranking. Indeed, it breaks with the learning codes by offering everything good to learn Portuguese through podcasts and other digital information formats. This is the most innovative application of our ranking.

Several types of tools are available within FluentU, ranging from videos to fairly vulgar subjects such as music clips, to more squares such as news and advertising. This type of training is challenging one of the issues of language learning. Indeed, after days and days of learning, when you are put into real situations, you rarely have whites during conversation phases.

To help you step by step, each video has a detailed script in English and Portuguese, so that you know what term means this or that. Only flat, as in the air of its time the application has a cost, since only the first two weeks of use are free, you will have to pay later 15 € per month or 120 € per year to continue accessing it.

5. Busuu

Busuu has also imposed itself in the landscape of language learning applications. Indeed, weighing only a few megabytes, this app offers courses like in school, which will provide you with the notions of vocabulary and grammar, dialogues in the format of stories to be read or audio documents that will facilitate the understanding of the phonetics of words.

As was the case with its English version, here also 150 themes are addressed in 3,000 unique phrases to read and listen. Whether it’s about everyday life or more professional and serious subjects, Busuu is the ideal accompaniment tool for Duolingo, even if learners at the intermediate level can use it to perfect their knowledge.

The flat is a little disappointment... First free of charge, the application becomes paid! On the other hand, the application is fairly economical since you will only have to count 34,99 € year round, for the premium version!

For the premium plus version, you will have to pay about 6,50 € per month. But no worries, it is common that the application offers attractive offers...

6. Memrise

In the summer, the tip of its nose is soon, and the holidays are the opportunity to travel, visit the country, learn new languages to make new friends and acquaintances. Memrise is an app that will help you learn Portuguese in all ease. Indeed, Memrise is a learning tool based on the use of vocabulary cards that you will need to memorize gradually by repeating them according to certain time intervals.

These maps are created and enriched by the user community. If you want to push your training to a higher level, a pay subscription range is also available.

A basic version is free. For advanced use, three monthly subscriptions ( $8.99 ), quarterly ( $18.99 ) and annual ( $45.99 ) are planned.

7. Duolingo

Duolingo is an essential application in the world of language learning. Whether it’s Portuguese or any of your favourite languages, Duolingo is the Swiss language learning knife. This application is by default in French once installed on your smartphone, and uses small fun games to teach you the language of your choice, which in this case is Portuguese.

To do this, you will have the opportunity to improve vocabulary, conjugation and grammar, punctuation and oral understanding.

Well structured, learning is gradually changing over the missions that are assigned to you in the application. The level of difficulty increases proportionally. This method will help you to understand in a short time the most arduous terms of the Portuguese language.

Fully free (no integrated purchases), Duolingo also has a backup tool that will make learning easier on various supports. Indeed, you can start an exercise on your tablet to complete it on the smartphone, and this independently of the operating system embedded in the terminal.

8. Tandem

This is a much different application from all you know so far! Here you learn the languages you already master, then the ones you want to learn. Then, you indicate some of your interests, topics of discussion that you like to discuss on a daily basis.

Finally, Tandem will offer you profiles of people who want to learn your language, and who master the one you want to know. The advantage here is that you can chat with people from all over the world, and thus exchange on your cultural differences.

Fully free, Tandem is a real opportunity to learn a language while meeting (virtually) new people. So you will be both a pupil and a teacher, all in a stylish and relaxed atmosphere.