Free Portuguese learning resources
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Decide between European and Brazilian Portuguese before choosing material. The written languages are close; the spoken ones differ enough in rhythm and vowel reduction that beginners trained on one often struggle badly with the other. Most free material online is Brazilian, so choose deliberately rather than by accident.
If you know Spanish, Portuguese reading will feel almost free and listening will not. European Portuguese in particular compresses unstressed vowels heavily, which makes fluent speech sound faster and less separable than the written form suggests.
Start with a course and a dictionary with audio, then move to listening early — pronunciation is where the time actually goes. The grammar holds few surprises for anyone who has studied another Romance language, with the personal infinitive being the notable exception.
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This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.