Lisboa
A steep street at golden hour, tiled facades and wrought-iron balconies, the river at the bottom of the hill.

European Portuguese · open now

Lisbon, in the Portuguese they actually speak.

For a long weekend, a season or a whole new life: the sentences you will need, in the order you will need them — European Portuguese, not the Brazilian every big app teaches.

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Your path

A weekend, a season, or the rest of your life?

Each one is its own path, in the order it happens to you. The first day of every path is free.

Your trip

A viagem

The green rooms are your free first day — 6 of them.

  1. A quiet cobbled street in early light, the first morning.
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    Unit 1

    Arrive

    Chegar

    • ✓ Get through the airport and into town
    • ✓ Check in without switching to English
    • ✓ Get a SIM and a signal
    Getting out of the airport · freeChecking in · freeA SIM card for the trip
  2. A small table laid for two in a tiled room.
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    Unit 2

    Coffee & food

    Comer e beber

    • ✓ Order at the counter like everybody else
    • ✓ Get a table, and get the bill
    • ✓ Shop for the picnic
    A coffee, standing up · freeThe bread queueA table for twoA tasca with no menuThe bill, and the couvert · freeCash, and the card that did not workAt the supermarket till
  3. A crowd at a stop on a hill street, a yellow bus pulling in.
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    Unit 3

    Get about

    Andar por aí

    • ✓ Get on the 28 and off at the right stop
    • ✓ Ask the way, and follow the answer
    • ✓ Take the train out to Sintra or the beach
    Getting on the 28Getting in a taxiAsking the way, and surviving the answer · freeThe train to SintraThe train to the beach
  4. Three people at a viewpoint looking over the rooftops at dusk.
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    Unit 4

    See the city

    Ver a cidade

    • ✓ Buy tickets and pick the right queue
    • ✓ Ask a stranger for the photo
    • ✓ Buy at the market, and sit through fado
    Tickets, and which queueAsking somebody to take the photoBuying by weightA fado house
  5. The inside of an old pharmacy, wooden shelves to the ceiling.
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    Unit 5

    When it goes wrong

    Quando corre mal

    • ✓ Get help at the pharmacy
    • ✓ Say what you cannot eat
    • ✓ Find a toilet, call for help, report a theft
    The pharmacyWhat you cannot eatFinding a toiletWhen something is badly wrong · freeSomething has been stolen

Try one

Hear it before you go.

A coffee on a steel counter beside a folded newspaper.

The room

A coffee, standing up

You want a coffee the way everybody around you is having one, without pointing at the menu.

Sentence 1 of 3

Um café, por favor.

What’s on

Going out? Say it in Portuguese.

Matches, gigs and concerts on real dates. Each one comes with its own rooms in the app: finding it, getting in, getting there, and asking somebody along.

Why it matters

Most apps teach Brazilian Portuguese. You’ll hear the difference on day one.

você está

estás

The second person every app drops and every Portuguese person uses.

celular

telemóvel

Ask for a celular here and you have announced which app you learned on.

um cafezinho

um café

Small, black, standing at the counter. Asking for "a coffee" gets you exactly this.

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Até já, Lisboa.

Five minutes a day, out loud — whatever brings you here. The first day is free.

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