Welcome to the final episode of our beginners’ course in Portuguese. Join teacher Rafael and learner Ava to listen to the final dialogue recorded on location in Portugal, during Ava’s trip to practise her Portuguese. Then, back in the studio, Rafael will help you understand all the language used in the conversation. Vamos lá! If

We have something special in today’s episode! In the penultimate lesson of this season, we’re going to listen to two dialogues recorded on location in Lisbon, Portugal, and hear what happened when Ava and Catarina met up for um verdadeiro cafezinho! This was not just any cafezinho, but a very special coffee break at the

Lesson 38 of our Portuguese course is a chance to review and practise the essential words and phrases that you typically use when you meet someone for the first time. We’ll listen to another conversation recorded on location in Portugal, then, back in the studio, teacher Rafael and learner Ava will talk through all the

In this newest episode of Coffee Break Portuguese, we’ll be reviewing useful language for buying travel tickets! You’ll get the opportunity to practise your listening comprehension through a dialogue that took place during learner Ava’s time in Porto, then teacher Rafael will help you understand everything that was said.

Join Rafael and Ava in this latest episode to continue learning Portuguese on your coffee break. The topic of our lesson today is how to ask for help at the pharmacy. You’ll practise your listening comprehension by hearing a dialogue that took place during learner Ava’s visit to the pharmacy, then teacher Rafael will help

Join teacher Rafael and learner Ava in the latest episode of Coffee Break Portuguese to review useful words and phrases for checking into a hotel. We’ll hear a conversation recorded on location in Portugal between Ava and the hotel receptionist, which will help you expand your vocabulary on this topic and practise your listening skills.

In this lesson we’ll be listening to the second recorded conversation that Ava had on her trip to Portugal. This time, she was practising her Portuguese by asking for travel information at the airport. The conversation contained many useful words and phrases, which Rafael and Ava then discussed back in the studio 

Welcome to a new episode… on location in Portugal! It’s time to put everything we’ve learned in our course so far into practice in real-life situations. Over the next 10 episodes, we’re going to be following Ava’s trip to Portugal. Back in the studio, Rafael and her will listen to the conversations recorded while she

We’ve reached lesson 30 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this episode we’re reviewing everything we’ve learned in our beginner’s course so far. We’ll be doing this by listening to and studying two short dialogues, which contain words and phrases on many of the topics we’ve covered. After this episode, we will be taking a break

In lesson 29 of Coffee Break Portuguese, we’re learning how to make a phone call in Portuguese. Join Rafael and Ava to find out what to say when you answer the phone in Portuguese, learn other useful phrases you’ll need for a telephone conversation, and hear everything in context in a practice dialogue.

Welcome to lesson 28 of Coffee Break Portuguese! The topic of this lesson is free time. We’re going to learn how to talk about your hobbies and the activities you enjoy doing, as well as how to say when and how often you do them, using adverbs of frequency in Portuguese. We’ll also be joined

In lesson 27 of Coffee Break Portuguese, we’re covering another useful, everyday topic – telling the time. We’ll learn how to ask someone for the time, how to say what the time is in Portuguese, and how to say at what time events start and end. Vamos lá!

Olá! The topic of today’s lesson is work. In this episode we’re learning new vocabulary to refer to different types of work and professions, as well as finding out how to ask someone what their job is and how to talk about what you do.

We’ve reached lesson 25 of our course and today’s topic is describing people in Portuguese. We’ll be learning useful words and phrases to describe someone’s appearance and say what they are like. This means that we’ll also be reviewing the basics of adjective agreement in Portuguese. Finally, we’ll be joined by Catarina, who has a

In lesson 24 of Coffee Break Portuguese we’re covering two essential topics to help you take your beginner’s Portuguese further. Join Rafael and Ava to learn how to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense and learn the Portuguese alphabet. Vamos lá!

Welcome to lesson 23 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this lesson we’re covering the transactional language that you’ll need on a trip to the pharmacy in a Portuguese-speaking location. We’ll be learning how to ask for medicine and ask how to take it, as well as other useful words and phrases on the topic of

In lesson 22 of our course, teacher Rafael and learner Ava are talking about aches and pains, and how to say that you’re not feeling well. We’ll be learning some parts of the body in Portuguese, how to say that we are experiencing a problem with one of these, the vocabulary for some other health

Welcome back to another lesson of Coffee Break Portuguese! We’re now halfway through our 40-lesson course and in lesson 21 we are talking about the weather. We’ll be learning how to ask what the weather is like today and what it is going to be like tomorrow, how to answer these questions to describe various