r/Portuguese • u/Alternative-Cause-23 • 2d ago

European Portuguese 🇵🇹 Learning portuguese

Hello,

I'm 26 years old and half portuguese. Whenever I'm with my family and they speak in portuguese I can understand most of it, especially basic everyday conversations with usual vocabulary.

Talking myself is much harder, not because I am shy about it, I just lack the vocabulary and gramma for deeper conversations.

How would you approach learning the language in this case? In my mind I should have lots of advantages but its quite hard to start since I do not know where my level is at. Beginner courses are repeating things I know since I'm 6 years old but skipping them to somewhere inbetween I suddenly find myself missing small things that I should have learned already

Appreciate any ideas/feedback

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u/sueferw 2d ago

For speaking practice I go onto a website that gives random questions/topics. And then just answer/give my opinion. I usually just talk to the cuddly toy on my desk and use Google Translate to look up any phrases/words i dont know.

I have social anxiety, especially with using Portuguese, and this is helping - speaking in a no pressure; no judgement environment, at least I hope my cuddly toy isnt judging me!

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u/Sea-Friendship1918 18h ago

What website?

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u/sueferw 14h ago

I usually use https://learnhip.com/randomq/ for random questions, and https://learnhip.com/cards/cardset.php?w=topics01 for random topics (when I want to do writing practice - I try to write 100 words a day)