WHY EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE
They are not the same language with a different accent. Being taught Brazilian Portuguese and then landing in Lisbon means sounding like you are from somewhere else — in a way everybody notices and nobody mentions.
THREE YOU WILL MEET ON DAY ONE
você estáestás
The second person every app drops and every Portuguese person uses.
celulartelemóvel
Ask for a celular here and you have announced which app you learned on.
um cafezinhoum café
Small, black, standing at the counter. Asking for "a coffee" gets you exactly this.
It is which second person people use, how a sentence is put together, and the hundred small things nobody writes down. DUB teaches the one they actually speak in Lisbon, because that is the version the person behind the counter will hear.