Coffee Break Portuguese

Coffee Break Languages

Learn Portuguese on your coffee break with teacher Rafael and his student Ava.

  • 22 minutes 28 seconds
    CBP 1.26 | Talking about work

    Olá! The topic of today's lesson is work. In this episode we're learning new vocabulary to refer to different types of work and professions, as well as finding out how to ask someone what their job is and how to talk about what you do.


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    23 April 2024, 3:00 pm
  • 25 minutes 6 seconds
    CBP 1.25 | Descriptions and appearances

    We've reached lesson 25 of our course and today's topic is describing people in Portuguese. We'll be learning useful words and phrases to describe someone's appearance and say what they are like. This means that we'll also be reviewing the basics of adjective agreement in Portuguese. Finally, we'll be joined by Catarina, who has a fascinating cultural segment about a very famous writer from the Portuguese-speaking world.


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    9 April 2024, 3:00 pm
  • 29 minutes 2 seconds
    CBP 1.24 | The present tense and the alphabet

    In lesson 24 of Coffee Break Portuguese we're covering two essential topics to help you take your beginner's Portuguese further. Join Rafael and Ava to learn how to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense and learn the Portuguese alphabet. Vamos lá!


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    26 March 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 27 minutes 45 seconds
    CBP 1.23 | At the pharmacy

    Welcome to lesson 23 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this lesson we're covering the transactional language that you'll need on a trip to the pharmacy in a Portuguese-speaking location. We'll be learning how to ask for medicine and ask how to take it, as well as other useful words and phrases on the topic of health. This episode expands on what we learned in the previous episode, so make sure to check out episode 22 wherever you’ve found this episode.


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    12 March 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 26 seconds
    CBP 1.22 | Aches and pains

    In lesson 22 of our course, teacher Rafael and learner Ava are talking about aches and pains, and how to say that you’re not feeling well. We’ll be learning some parts of the body in Portuguese, how to say that we are experiencing a problem with one of these, the vocabulary for some other health problems, and some other useful phrases that you can use if you’re visiting a doctor. We'll also be joined by Catarina in today's Cafezinho com Catarina, in which we'll be learning all about fado.


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    27 February 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 27 minutes 6 seconds
    CBP 1.21 | The weather

    Welcome back to another lesson of Coffee Break Portuguese! We’re now halfway through our 40-lesson course and in lesson 21 we are talking about the weather. We’ll be learning how to ask what the weather is like today and what it is going to be like tomorrow, how to answer these questions to describe various types of weather, and hear a weather forecast for Portugal in today’s Cafezinho com Catarina. We’ll also have a more in-depth look at one particular aspect of Portuguese grammar – the difference between the verbs ser and estar, which both translate as "to be”. Vamos lá!


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    13 February 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 27 minutes 23 seconds
    CBP 1.20 | End-of-unit review

    We've reached lesson 20 of Coffee Break Portuguese, which marks the halfway point in our beginners' course. In this episode we’re reviewing what we’ve learned throughout the first 19 lessons. We’ll be doing this by listening to a dialogue that incorporates many of the topics we’ve covered so far. We hope you enjoy seeing how much you’ve learned over the past 19 lessons and we'll be back soon with lesson 21!


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    19 December 2023, 4:00 pm
  • 30 minutes 47 seconds
    CBP 1.19 | Travelling by public transport

    This lesson of Coffee Break Portuguese is all about travel. Join Rafael and Ava to learn the phrases you need to know when dealing with travel situations in a Portuguese-speaking country, including using public transport and buying travel tickets. We'll also listen to a practice dialogue set in a train station and hear from Catarina in today's Cafezinho com Catarina, in which she tells us a little more about the Azores.


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    5 December 2023, 4:00 pm
  • 26 minutes 29 seconds
    CBP 1.18 | Understanding and giving directions

    Welcome to lesson 18 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this lesson we are talking about how to ask for directions and how to give directions in town. If you haven't already listened to episode 8 of our course, we would recommend finding it wherever you're listening to this episode, as we'll be expanding on what we learned in that lesson. Vamos lá!


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    21 November 2023, 4:00 pm
  • 30 minutes 24 seconds
    CBP 1.17 | Shopping at the market

    In lesson 17 of Coffee Break Portuguese we're taking what we learned in our previous lesson a stage further and continuing with the topic of shopping. This time, we're at the market, and we're applying some of the same language to a new context, as well as learning lots of new words for the food items you might find there and how to express quantities in Portuguese. We'll also be joined by Catarina in today's Cafezinho com Catarina, in which she tells us about a famous market in Lisbon.


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    7 November 2023, 4:00 pm
  • 25 minutes 50 seconds
    CBP 1.16 | Shopping for souvenirs

    Welcome to lesson 16 of Coffee Break Portuguese! This is the series in which we're learning Portuguese right from the beginning, along with Rafael and Ava. The topic of this lesson is shopping. We're learning some transactional language that will come in useful when you’re in a shop. We learn the words for different types of souvenirs, and how to ask how much things cost.


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    24 October 2023, 3:00 pm
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