Practise speaking Portuguese out loud
Free Portuguese conversation practice with an AI partner that responds to what you actually say. No subscription, no paywall, and no payment details.
Ordering at a café, start to finish
A real conversation in the app: order a coffee, ask for something to eat, request the bill. The objectives tick off as you say them.
Turn sound on to hear it.
The bit that trips people up: nasal vowels and swallowed syllables
Portuguese has nasal vowels that English speakers tend to flatten into ordinary ones, and — especially in European Portuguese — unstressed vowels get reduced so heavily that words you know on paper vanish in speech. Reading fluency gives you almost no protection here.
Conversations you can practise in Portuguese
- Ordering at a café and asking what is fresh
- Asking for directions and following the answer
- Checking into accommodation and asking about the wifi
- Making small talk with a taxi driver
- Explaining a dietary restriction at a restaurant
Not on the list? Describe the situation and ConvoLive builds it.
Situations
Three phrases worth being able to say
Every learner needs these before they need anything clever.
- Pode repetir, por favor?
- Could you repeat that, please?
- Como se diz isso?
- How do you say that?
- Ainda estou a aprender
- I'm still learning
Portuguese questions people ask
- Brazilian or European Portuguese?
- The two differ most in pronunciation and everyday phrasing. Because you can build your own scenarios, you can steer practice toward the variety and situations you actually need.
- Is Portuguese harder to understand than Spanish?
- Most learners find it harder to hear, even when the grammar feels familiar. That is a listening-and-speaking problem, which is the gap conversation practice is built to close.