Brazilian Portuguese With Pops

You can speak Portuguese on your first morning in Rio. Not read it, not conjugate it, speak it, and understand the answer that comes back. Brazilian Portuguese With Pops is a sixteen-chapter spoken course built the way the best audio language courses have always worked: an English guide explains one small idea, a native Brazilian speaker says it, you say it yourself in the pause, and the course quietly builds that idea into the next one until you are making sentences you were never taught as sentences. No grammar tables. No homework. No verb charts. Just the engine of the language, one piece at a time, with a pause after every line so you are always speaking, never just listening.

The course follows a traveler from Rio de Janeiro to Iguaçu Falls and on to Salvador da Bahia: the bom dia and tudo bem that open every door, the passport desk and the taxi to Copacabana, the hotel front desk, the juice bar, the por-quilo lunch and the bill, the Metrô and the bus, a day under a beach umbrella, Cristo Redentor and the Sugarloaf cable car, the flight south, the trail to the Devil's Throat and a boat ride under the falls, the old streets of the Pelourinho, acarajé from the baiana's tray, a roda de samba, the pharmacy, and the last morning before the flight home. Every chapter uses the most common words in the language, the verbs, question words and connecting words that carry ordinary conversation, spoken by a native Brazilian voice in neutral everyday Brazilian Portuguese, with a second native voice playing the officer, the receptionist, the waitress, the vendor and the pharmacist so your ear learns to follow real exchanges. Numbers-by-ear and everyday-Brazilian drills are built in, along with the four little words that do a hundred jobs: tá, beleza, valeu and né.

Compiled and edited by Pops. The narration is produced with digital voices.