🤗 Welcome to your Portuguese course! 🤗
💖I’m sure you’re very excited and ready to get started!
😉You can be sure that the time and energy you invest in your learning will create countless opportunities and bring huge benefits to your academic, professional and personal life!
⭐COURSE INSTRUCTIONS⭐
😊 Reading time: approx. 2 minutes that will be worth it!
🎯 ACCESS TO THE A1 PORTUGUESE COURSE 🎯
🤩This first lesson of the course is open to any student, as it is the free trial lesson of the course.
😉To access the rest of the lessons you need to be enrolled.
🚀Signing up for the course and using the platform is a simple and intuitive process. Check out ⭐the course page⭐ for more information.
🔎When you see ⭐⭐⭐underscored words ⭐⭐⭐, this means it is a link. 👉 Just click to have free access to the content.
🎯 THE TRIAL LESSON: LET’S GO! 🎯
⏩If you haven’t enrolled in the course yet, take advantage of this first lesson with no strings attached.
🥰 Feel free to explore the materials to see if the course aligns with your goals and learning style!
⏩If you are already enrolled in the course, allow the browser to save your login info. 🌟This way, you can quickly access the course through the course link or the dashboard.
🎯LESSON OVERVIEW 🎯
🧑🎓 Here you have an outline of the lesson, which is entitled ✅ 🇧🇷 “CUMPRIMENTAMOS” (✅“We greet”). 🌟You will learn:
- How to greet and how to say goodbye in Portuguese.
- Some insights: the internal logic of the Portuguese language.
- How to ask, “how are you?” in Portuguese.
- How to break the ice when meeting someone.
- Polite phrases in Portuguese.
🎯THE VIDEO CONTENT OF THIS LESSON🎯
🎬 In all lessons, you have a main video explaining the subject matter.
😊In this first lesson (which is open to the general public), the video is exceptionally available on YouTube.
🤗 The remaining videos are not available to public. They are hosted on the Vimeo platform. They can be viewed only by registered students – with no ads and no interruptions, so they can focus on studying and get the most of their time on the course!
😉The course videos and other materials are neatly organized here, on our platform, waiting for you! You do not need to go to external platforms or websites to take your lessons. 🆗 All course content is accessible through your dashboard.
🎬 In lessons like this one, which focus mainly on new vocabulary, you have access to an additional video.
⏰In a matter of minutes, this video reviews the list of words and/or phrases from the lesson.
💡Tip: Watch these videos as many times as you find necessary, until the content sounds familiar to you!
💡Tip: You can change the playback speed at the bottom of the video, using the gear icon (⚙️).
🎯THE LESSON PDFS🎯
🏆You have a main PDF with the material you’re seeing in the video. You can consider it as your textbook, exercise book and glossary (in digital format).
💚This PDF includes theory, summary, exercises and answers.
🤩This lesson includes an additional PDF, just for vocabulary.
✨You can download the PDFs. 👆 Scroll to the top of the screen and click on the “EXERCISES” tab (🖇️ with the paperclip icon).
🥰There you’ll also find an additional PDF with an outline of the 42+ lessons of the course.
- 💡This way, you’ll see the course progression, be able to monitor your growth and be more aware of the skills you’ll be acquiring.
📆 In this lesson, you will also find a free weekly planner template to help you organize your schedule, where you will see suggestions for study activities.
- 📑 It works as a visual reminder of the many study options available to you, so you can prioritize those that help you get closer to your goals.
- 🚀 You can print out the planner, for example, and make 8 copies if you aim to finish the course in 8 weeks.
- 🤗 It will certainly be very satisfying to plan your study goals, tracking every daily goals that you achieved and crossing them out: this will give you even more motivation to continue moving forward, day after day!
💡Tip: If you like working with digital material, you can download the lesson PDF to your device and consult it offline, whenever you want.
💡Tip: If you also enjoy the more “old school” way of learning, you can print the complete PDF or just its summary/vocabulary.
🎯 THE LESSON AUDIOS🎯
🎧In the case of lessons with a video + vocabulary PDF, you also have audio files in MP3 format with this vocabulary.
👆 To download the files, scroll to the top of the screen and click on the “EXERCISES” tab (🖇️ with the paperclip icon).
👉In one MP3 you hear the word in Portuguese and, immediately after, its English translation.
😎 You have an additional MP3 where each word is pronounced only in Portuguese.
💡Tip: The audios have a strategic pause, so you can take in the information and repeat each word, if you wish.
💡Tip: I recommend that you listen to this audio only in Portuguese at the same time as you consult the vocabulary PDF. This way, you hear the words in the sequence of the PDF and learn the language in an immersive way.
💡 Tip: Listening to the vocabulary audios only in Portuguese, and being able to understand the content without having to read it, is the ultimate proof that you have mastered the subject.
🎯DIGITAL FLASHCARDS OF THE LESSON🎯
🌈Flashcards are an interactive, visual and fun study tool.
🍀Just click below to access the flashcards:
📌😍 Flashcards: Greeting and Farewell Formulas
📌😍 Flashcards: Action-Reaction
📌😍 Flashcards: Very Comprehensive Lesson Vocab
🎈The “classic” flashcards are translated (English > Portuguese) and include an image to facilitate memorization.
🤗In this lesson, you will also find a set of “action-reaction” flashcards (only in Portuguese) that will allow you to learn by immersion. 🎉These cards simulate those types of interactions in real life. ✨This material is preparing you to be able to start conversations in the new language like a pro!
🤩Throughout the course, you will find even more varied formats of flashcard sets: flashcards with synonyms and antonyms, or flashcards with just images and no translation, and even verb conjugation flashcards.
💕 With this variety, studying simply cannot get monotonous!
💡Tip: For even more diversity, you can choose different learning or gaming modes for the flashcards.
💡Tip: You can practice this content offline from your smartphone using the free Quizlet app.
🎯EXTRA MATERIAL (IF YOU WANT TO UPLEVEL YOUR SKILLS) 🎯
🤗Above, you could see the quantity and quality of the material that is part of the official course curriculum.
💯But the A1 course offers you even more input! On the platform, students enrolled in the course will be able to see that many lessons include an “EXTRA MATERIAL” section.
🤩This means that, if you want to delve even deeper into the lesson topics, you have even more stimuli to boost your Portuguese skills!
🎓This extra material is very communicative and compatible with the official course content.
🤗You can check it out now or later… 😉 Or you can even choose to ignore this extra material, as this will not negatively affect your progress in the course (it is EXTRA material, after all!).
👉So, what is the extra material in the first lesson of the course?
(🔎Remember: the underlined words ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐⭐ indicate that you can click on them to access more content!)
💟 EXTRA MATERIAL: STUDY TIP #1💟
🩷 You have a blog post where I explain, in writing, step by step, the phrases in this lesson (in English). 🤗You can check it out to learn more about this topic and practice even more!
🩷 The content of the first lesson of the course is explained in Portuguese too – on the blog and in the video below.
💯The video in Portuguese is an opportunity to practice language immersion, since you can choose the language of the subtitles (Portuguese or English).
💯You can also change the playback speed, if you prefer the video slower.
👉To change the language of the subtitles and the playback speed, just click on the gear icon in the video menu (⚙️).
💟 EXTRA MATERIAL: STUDY TIP #2 💟
😊Perhaps you would like to further expand your repertoire of formulas for greeting, saying goodbye and asking “how are you?” in Portuguese.
🥰For that, you have the following video (which features a blog post with free material to practice)!
😅Yes, I know: there are a lot of new phrases, and you don’t need to learn them now if you don’t want to! 😘But let me offer you a pro tip:
😎The video includes fun colloquial and slang expressions that you’ll enjoy learning – and they’ll allow you to speak Portuguese with the swagger of a true Brazilian!
😍The same content is displayed in the following video, explained in Portuguese, so you can learn by language immersion (there’s also a free post on the blog)!
👉You can change the language of the subtitles (Portuguese/English) and the playback speed. 😉Just click on the gear icon in the video menu (⚙️).
💟 EXTRA MATERIAL: STUDY TIP #3 💟
🚀One of the most time-effective ways to learn Portuguese is through language immersion with educational mini-videos.
🎯I publish many videos in this format on my YouTube channel and will add them to the course platform when the topic of the video is aligned with the lesson content.
😪In the following video I teach you different ways to apologize in Portuguese. ⏩You don’t have to learn them all now if you don’t want to. ✨But spending two minutes watching the video is a great way go that extra mile that will get you closer to achieving fluency!
👉You can change the language of the subtitles (Portuguese/English) and the playback speed. 😉Just click on the gear icon in the video menu (⚙️).
🎯LESSON QUIZ🎯
🎓If you are already enrolled in the course 👇scroll to the end of the page to take the quiz by clicking on the “NEXT” button. 💯On the dashboard you can see the results and retake the tests if you want.
🎁Since this lesson is special (open to the public), you have an additional quiz as a bonus.
✅ The extra quiz is available to students of the course and also to those who have not yet enrolled. 🎉Enjoy!
🔎Quiz instructions:
✔ In the quizzes, some questions accept more than one correct answer. There is always at least one wrong answer.
✔ ==> indicates that the correct answer is the appropriate reaction to what is stated in the question, for example “Obrigado!” ==> “De nada!”
🙋♀️ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
💭If you have any questions about how to enroll in the course and take the classes, you have the following options:
⏩Get in touch using the contact form or the WhatsApp button.
⏩Check the FAQ.
⏩Read the information on the course page.
🥰 A big hug from your teacher! I hope you have a lot of fun learning the new language!