Your path from survival to fluency
Structured lectures in Brazilian Portuguese, built for life in São Paulo.
Block 1: News, debate & passive voice
Media commentary, argumentation, passive structures, and belief/doubt.
Notícias e comentários
News commentary and media literacy
Opinião e argumentação
Opinion, argumentation, and debate
Voz passiva e se impessoal
Passive voice and impersonal se
Crença e dúvida
Belief, doubt, and acho que + subjunctive
Revisão do Bloco 1
Block 1 review — news, debate, passive, belief/doubt
Block 2: Advice, subjunctive & cities
Conditional advice, subjunctive tenses, por/para, and urban character.
Conselhos, recomendações e condicional
Advice, recommendations, and conditional
Presente e imperfeito do subjuntivo
Present and imperfect subjunctive
Por, para, causa, finalidade e hipóteses
Por, para, cause, purpose, and hypotheses
Cidades, caráter, personalidade e relações
Cities, character, personality, and relationships
Revisão do Bloco 2
Block 2 review — advice, subjunctive, and por/para
Block 3: Relative clauses & conditions
Relative pronouns, perception verbs, passive compound, and requirements.
Orações de relativo: que, quem, cujo/a
Relative clauses — que, quem, cujo/a
Verbos de percepção e opinião + indicativo/subjuntivo
Perception and opinion verbs with mood
Voz passiva em relativas e infinitivo composto
Passive in relatives and compound infinitive
Condições, requisitos e subjuntivo perfeito
Conditions, requirements, and perfect subjunctive
Revisão da 3ª parte
Block 3 review — relatives, perception, and conditions
Block 4: Purpose, indirect style & subjunctive
Actions, intention, reported speech, and imperfect subjunctive.
Descrever ações, movimentos e situações
Describing actions, movement, and situations
Finalidade, intencionalidade e para + subjuntivo
Purpose, intention, and para + subjunctive
Estilo indireto, promessas e advertências
Indirect style, promises, and warnings
Imperfeito do subjuntivo em relatos e involuntariedade
Imperfect subjunctive in narratives and involuntary actions
Revisão da 4ª parte
Block 4 review — actions, purpose, and reported speech
Block 5: Environment, work & capstone
Forecasts, professional cohesion, reproaches, biographies, and B2 review.
Meio ambiente, previsões e orações concessivas
Environment, forecasts, and concessive clauses
Trabalho, coesão textual e nominalização
Work, textual cohesion, and nominalization
Reproches, passado irreal e condicional composto
Reproaches, unreal past, and compound conditional
Habilidades, biografias e educação
Skills, biographies, and education
Revisão do B2 e pronto para o C1
B2 capstone — integrated practice and C1 bridge
All CEFR levels
Survival
Navigate basic interactions and establish your presence in São Paulo.
Routine
Handle routine situations and daily exchanges with confidence.
Independence
Live independently and maintain flowing conversations.
Fluency
Professional fluency and complex social nuances.
Mastery
Full cultural immersion and near-native expression.