3 Minute Portuguese - Free taster course | Beginner lessons (Udemy.com)
Learn to speak Portuguese you can use in everyday real-world situations - all in just 3-minute chunks!
Created by: Kieran Ball
Last updated April 2025
What you will learn
- Speak Portuguese confidently and comfortably in everyday situations
- Understand what's being said back to you
- Be more than just an average tourist when travelling to Portuguese speaking countries
- Go from complete beginner to building your own sentences after the very first lesson
- Build a solid base vocabulary of words and phrases you can use straight away in the real world
- Understand and use grammatical and linguistic features of the Portuguese language with ease
- Understand the structure of the Portuguese language
- Get to grips with Portuguese pronunciation
Course Description
Olá! Hello and welcome to 3 Minute Portuguese :-)
3 Minute Portuguese is a collection of online lessons that helps the complete beginner learn to speak Portuguese in simple, bite-sized chunks.
The lessons start off by giving you a few words that you can use to build your own sentences. For example, in lesson one, you'll learn these words and phrases:
bom - good
é - it is
fantástico - fantastic
aqui - here
muito - very
não é - it isn't
With those words, you can build sentences like these:
It's good.
It's fantastic here.
It's very good here.
It isn't good here.
It isn't good; it's fantastic!
(See if you can translate those five sentences above into Portuguese just by using those words and phrases.)
The lessons continuously build on what you've been learning, enabling you to express yourself fluently in Portuguese. As you move through the course, you'll pick up new vocabulary, useful grammar points and interesting ways to look at the structure of the Portuguese language that will give you plenty of "Aha!" moments.
The reason it's called "3 Minute Portuguese" is because the lessons are broken down into very short, three-minute chunks. Everybody, no matter how busy you are, has time to fit in a single three-minute lesson once a day, and in fact, by keeping learning to such short chunks, you'll reap huge benefits. Short but consistent daily lessons are more effective than a longer lesson once or twice a week, because you'll find you maintain enthusiasm, develop a learning habit and you'll also memorise everything much better.
If you've never learnt Portuguese before, or if you have had a bad experience with learning this beautiful language, the 3 Minute Portuguese lessons will help you to succeed.
Obrigado :-)
Kieran
Instructor Details
- 4.9 Rating
1,149 Reviews
Kieran Ball
Hello, bonjour, hola, hallo, ciao and olá!
I’m Kieran and I’m a language tutor based in the UK, and I also create online courses and write books to make language learning accessible to all.
My books and online courses are based on the method I developed for teaching languages, which I've been using in all my classes for many years. The method will get you speaking quickly, without the struggle normally associated with language learning.
I have created three series of language courses available in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. They're called: '3 Minute Languages', 'Building Structures' and 'Quick Guides'.
I hope you enjoy, and "Happy Learning" :-)
Kieran
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Reviews
By Anna Nekrylova on 4/15/2022
It doesn't sound like fake Slavic language at all, at least so far. But nothing is off the table: if Portuguese is being almost shamed (through Langfocus on YouTube) it means Spanish and Italian can be shamed for being Slavic by means for being one Romance languages family.
By Samucan Cornelius on 3/21/2022
Firstly I'd like to say Obrigado for taking the time to create & publish this learning opportunity for myself & others to follow. It was indeed amazing to follow along & also refresh better on learning & remembering the content, sometimes listening to a simple dialogue is way better than reading words & trying to make it clear. I definitely recommend your 3minute courses.
By Melzer Lobo on 1/20/2019
I've been experimenting with different tutors to try to learn European Portuguese, this is the first one that I've stumbled upon and its SUPER AWESOME. It's engaging and super easy. é absolutamente fantastico, give it a try its worth it.
By Dinesh Ganeshe on 6/2/2018
Thanks for creating such courses those who want to learn new language in a faster and effective way. This is really good course and having good experience while learning a new language. Please provide more and more courses like this so those who wants to learn other languages. Thanks for your valuable time and creating such course. Appreciate your work and dedication in the field of learning.
By Paul Brown on 5/25/2018
I had a wonderful time learning portuguese. I used to fear it, because I thought that it would be extremely difficult, but this is not the case. It a wonderful smooth and easy language to learn. Again, the instructor is wonderful and goes at a great pace. I just want to continue to learn more portuguese. I have always wanted to travel to brazil and mingle with the people. Thank you so much. Paul Brown
By Patrick Kane on 1/8/2018
I enjoyed going through the free taster course. My level is higher than this, so I won't buy the actual course, but for someone who would like to go from knowing nothing to being able to say some useful things in a very short space of time, I would recommend it.
By Ayoub Mostakim on 12/1/2017
It's absolutely fantastic how this language looks very similar to other languages, including Spanish and Italian, regardless of a few differences in structure. The course was enjoyable, but I don't think I have to continue your upcoming available parts of this course for I lack the necessary fund. Anyhow, Abrigado Kieran Ball!
By Vinodsingh Arya on 11/24/2017
This course has help me with the basic understanding about the Portuguese it very good for the beginners. Instructors way of presentation was very good exercise and content was good. Content was small and repetitive hence it becomes more engaging but it would be fantastic if some repetitions are replaced by the additional new words.
By Silvana Archila on 10/5/2017
Me parece una muy eficiente forma de aprender un idioma, lo he intentado de varios medios y este me a parecido el mejor. Me acuerdo de todas las palabras; me encantaría que hicieran más videos porque sin duda los vería. Se lo recomendaría a cualquiera, exelente.
By Ruth Hadikin BSc. on 2/25/2017
It is easy to follow and paced just right - I'm learning alot and remembering what I've learnt. I just completed the course and é fantastico! It is so much more than I would have expected from a free taster and I'm really looking forward to course 1 in the series. Muito Obrigada!
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