The following applies after that you’ve registered and paid for the intensive course.
Speak Portuguese with confidence by really learning its sounds
Sounds of Portuguese is an in-depth online course for any Portuguese learner who wants to get their pronunciation right and overcome insecurity.
European Standard
Starting off on the right foot
If there is any language skill often neglected by language learners, it’s pronunciation. Yet, pronunciation does matter – it is decisive to whether or not you get past the fluency threshold and to how quickly you achieve that milestone.
The clearer your pronunciation is, the more confident you’ll feel speaking Portuguese with others and the better you’ll get at it. It’s a virtuous circle!
To improve your pronunciation you need to dive into the Portuguese sound system and learn the basic sounds. You want to drill them until they become second nature to you. That’s what Sounds of Portuguese is all about.
After this course, you’ll have built a solid foundation to confidently speak crystal clear Portuguese.
No stone left unturned
- dominant features of Portuguese pronunciation
- basic phonological notions
- in-depth Portuguese phonology: oral vowels, nasal vowels, diphthongs, nasal diphthongs, single consonants, consonant pairs
- includes video lessons, recap summaries, audio tracks, and practice drills
Detailed structure of the course
Detailed structure of the course
- Basics
- Prominent phonological features of European Portuguese
- Portuguese alphabet
- IPA – The International Phonetic Alphabet
- Speech-sound articulators and basic sound properties
- Vowel vs. consonant sounds
- Vowel sounds
- Intro
- Oral vowels
- Vowel a
- Vowel e
- Vowel o
- Diphthongs
- Vowel i
- Vowel u
- Nasal diphthongs
- Wrapping up
- Consonant sounds
- Intro
- Consonant pairs
- /b/ & /p/
- /d/ & /t/
- /v/ & /f/
- /z/ & /s/
- /ʒ/ & /ʃ/
- /g/ & /k/
- Single consonants
- /n/ /m/ /ɲ/
- /l/ /ɫ/ /ʎ/ (laterals)
- /r/ /R/ (rhotics)
- Silent H & Tricky X
- Wrapping up
- Final remarks
- Keep at it
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Hear from my students
This course was a game-changer for me. I trust my pronunciation better these days and feel more confident when I speak Portuguese. Pedro has it right. Pronunciation is a physical thing and one needs to drill those sound bites to develop enough muscle memory. Only then will you start hitting the right notes with less effort. It’s well worth it. Buy it.
Marianne Scott /USA
Before I bought this course I couldn’t really hear the sounds of this language, let alone reproduce them. I clearly see that in hindsight. Like with a radio device, you’ve got to fine-tune it into the right frequencies to get a cleaner signal. Thanks to Sounds of Portuguese, I am now more in tune with Portuguese pronunciation and feel much more comfortable speaking it.
Alfred Miller /Australia
Your Investment
Great bang for the buck!
For less than what you’d pay for a couple of private lessons, you’ll get the whole Portuguese sound system laid out for you.
Lifetime access