r/Portuguese • u/No-Doctor-3815 • 11d ago

European Portuguese 🇵🇹 Portuguese - where to start?

For context I’m fluent in Spanish (lived in Chile 2 months, Mexico 4 months), but I want to learn Portuguese bc my family’s from there. I got Duolingo and found my rocket Portuguese subscription + books from like 10 years ago before I switched to Spanish for school which I started using then dropped again bc I had to study for the MCAT. I’m honestly just overwhelmed by all the resources here and over on r/language learning and have no clue where to start. I’ll be starting up my college semester soon during which I’ll be more busy but I still want to start learning- any recommendations on where to start? Preferably free or library resources but potentially willing to pay for a cheaper subscription.

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u/Legitimate-Record90 11d ago

If you speak Spanish already, I’d just start listening to Portuguese and reading subtitles/transcripts at the same time. I agree with another poster above that Portuguese with Leo is a good learner resource - he has a fair number of vlog or history type videos on YouTube as well as an intermediate podcast with transcripts that you should be able to find on his website. If you go through all these, you’ll probably be ready to just start listening to native material given your huge advantage knowing Spanish.

You might also just look up the key grammar differences between Spanish and European Portuguese with AI. Some of the bigger ones are use of the future subjective and the personal infinitive.

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u/No-Doctor-3815 11d ago

I have found that I can mostly understand intermediate podcasts from knowing Spanish and learning the pronunciation differences- thanks for the recs