A Portuguese word hides a sound you already know in English. A scene links that sound to the meaning — so the word comes back easily.
cidade
Scene: A giant SEDAN splits at the seams, skyscrapers sprouting from its body into a whole city.
Every word and example is voiced by Brazilians — pick a female or a male voice.
A familiar English sound-alike becomes the hook — thousands of words have one.
A scene ties the sound to the meaning: 4020 drawn scenes.
FSRS-6 brings the word back just as it starts to fade, and mistakes from every section wait in “My mistakes”.
The course leads you lesson by lesson: new words, grammar, reading, listening and writing. What you've learned keeps coming back until it sticks.
50 short lessons: first words and phrases through pictures and sound
Meeting people, shopping, getting around, home
Work, health, plans, stories
Longer texts, dialogues and writing
Opinions, sources, complex texts
Shades of meaning, register, editing
Precise wording and working with sources
Preparation for the only official Brazilian Portuguese exam — for citizenship, university and diploma recognition.
Every course is available with explanations in English, Russian, Spanish and French. Progress is saved once you sign in.More about the courses
The flashcard: recall the word, flip it and rate yourself. The quiz: guess the word from the picture.
Liked it? There are 8162 cards like this, with audio and examples.
Start freeClassics retold in Brazilian Portuguese, in an easy (A1–A2) and an intermediate (B1) edition. Listen to any chapter: the text lights up as it's read, and any unknown word translates with one tap.
Full castDom Casmurro
Full castO Alienista
Full castSenhora
Full castTriste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma
Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias
Full castO Cão dos Baskerville
Full castAnne de Green Gables
O Jardim Secreto
O Mágico de Oz
A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias
A Ilha do Tesouro
As Aventuras de Pinóquio
Words are only the start. Next you need to understand the language by ear, write in it and test yourself in a real exam format.
314 recordings with tasks and transcripts — from a chat at the padaria to C2 podcasts and reports.
Quantos pães a cliente pede?
43 catalog tasks plus writing in every course. Send a text and get feedback against the criteria — not just “well done”.
As casa são bonitas.
As casas são bonitas.
Agreement: the plural article as needs a plural noun too.
A practice exam for every level A1–C2 — 1214 questions in the pools, a score and a breakdown by section.
One subscription opens everything. Your goal only changes what the daily plan suggests.
The doctor, school, the cartório, dinner-table talk.
Citizenship, university, diploma recognition. The pass level is Intermediário, about B1.
Next session: October 20, 2026The Brazilian high-school diploma for adults.
The national exam: university and the diploma.
Find out where you are, or close a level.
Every plan starts with a free week — no card needed. After that, the A0 and A1 courses stay free forever.
Great for a confident start
Enough time to reach B1–B2
With the A0 course: short lessons introduce your first words and phrases through pictures, sound and exercises. Choose “I’m starting from scratch” when you sign up and the first lesson opens without a placement test.
Free forever: the A0 and A1 courses, the first module of the A2 course and of CELPE-Bras Foundation, plus level A1 words, theory, exercises, reading and listening. Exams and AI-reviewed writing are part of Premium. For the first 7 days after signing up all of Premium is open, no card needed. The 59 guides are open without an account.
Test out of it. In the A0–C2 courses every topic can be closed with its check straight away, without the lessons: pass it and the topic counts as done and the next one opens. Words, grammar, reading, books and exams are also open on their own, outside the course.
Yes — that's the main use. Exams, CELPE-Bras, ENEM and supletivo sit inside the same subscription: if a goal appears later, everything is already there.
All of it. There are no per-goal plans: one subscription opens every course, book, exam and prep track. You can change your goal anytime without losing progress.
Your text is reviewed against the exam criteria: a level with the reasons, mistakes with explanations and what to review. It's learning feedback, not an official examiner's decision — practice scores don't replace CELPE-Bras or ENEM.
Because you take them in Portuguese. We cover both the subjects — 13 supletivo subjects and the four ENEM areas — and the language they're written in: terms are learned with the same cards as ordinary words.
Yes. Under every sound or microphone exercise there is a “Can't listen now” (or “Can't speak now”) button: exercises of that kind are skipped for the next 15 minutes, and a skip never counts as a mistake.
For vocabulary, listening, reading and writing — yes. We don't replace a conversation with a real person, but a lack of words is usually what holds that conversation back. Drills include pronunciation with your microphone.
In Anki you build the cards yourself; here 8162 are ready — with audio and examples, and thousands of them with a sound-alike mnemonic. Unlike Duolingo, it's Brazilian Portuguese only, with a course up to C2 and preparation for real exams. And no streak guilt: skip a day and nothing burns.
A meaning picture (what it is) and a mnemonic scene (how to remember it) — your brain builds a bridge between the two. The English edition has sound-alike mnemonics for 4101 words and 4020 illustrated scenes; hint and artwork availability varies by language.
A link to something familiar-sounding: “BOB the BUTTERFLY flutters through a graceful mid-air BALLET routine” — borboleta. A mnemonic gives you a recall cue; reviews and use in sentences help reinforce the word.
Spaced repetition powered by FSRS-6 — a modern algorithm that tracks how well a word is holding and estimates when to schedule its next review.
Flashcards, picture choice, letter assembly, listening dictation, fill-in-the-blank and a few more. A word never fuses to one single phrasing, and you learn to recognize it in real text.
The only official Brazilian Portuguese exam recognized by the Brazilian government: required for citizenship, universities and diploma recognition. Held twice a year (April–May and October–November); the minimum passing level is Intermediário (roughly B1).
In Mnezo it's a track of its own. The Foundation course starts from zero (28 modules, the first one free) and leads into First certificate: 40 modules, 80 writing tasks and audio for every module. Alongside: a genre workshop (26 lessons) and a written simulator with four tasks, just like the real Parte Escrita: 180 minutes, one task at a time, no going back.
Supletivo (EJA) is an adult's path to the Brazilian secondary-school certificate: without it, university, many jobs and public-sector exams stay closed. You can take it either through the national ENCCEJA or through your state's own exams.
Mnezo has a dedicated track for it: 13 subjects, 551 tasks, 78 chapters of theory and 381 term flashcards. The mock exam runs in two blocks of six subjects — just like the real sitting — and the redação essay is scored against the board's own criteria, not a soft language scale.
There's no official “A1 exam” for Brazilian Portuguese, so we built our own, modeled on the European ACESSO/DEPLE/DUPLE exams plus original material. The pools hold 1214 questions, with a dedicated set for each level.
Four sections (reading, listening, grammar & vocabulary, writing), three lengths to choose from — 15, 25 or 40 questions — and a 55% pass mark. Answers are checked server-side, so peeking at the key in the browser won't work.
Doctors, school for the kids, lines at the cartório — you need living everyday language, not textbook dialogues.
Citizenship, university or diploma recognition: not a phrasebook, but confident reading and writing in the exam format.
For anyone living in Brazil and finishing school as an adult: the subjects, plus the language they're taught in.
Take part in the conversation at the table instead of smiling and nodding.
Understand the daily stand-up and the group chat. 20–30 minutes a day — but every day.
