What Rumo is

Rumo is a complete course in Brazilian Portuguese, built to be dense. Forty lessons take you from oi, tudo bem? to arguing a case, catching a joke, and hearing what someone politely did not say.

It is made for one person working alone, about half an hour a day. Every lesson drills vocabulary, verbs and grammar, then makes you produce them — writing your own sentences and saying them out loud — and ends in a test you have to pass at 70% before the level's exam will open. Nothing in it is decoration.

The method is repetition. Every lesson re-drills the one before it, so words meet you again a week later, then a month later, in a new sentence. That is the part most courses skip, and it is the reason people forget everything they learned by Lição 12.

What it is not: a replacement for talking to Brazilians. Real conversation needs real people, and no course can hand you that. Rumo does everything underneath it — including speaking drills and dialogues in every lesson — so that when you do sit down with someone, you already have the words, the tenses and the ear. The only new thing is the nerves.

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What is actually in it

Numbers, not adjectives.

40lessons, A1 → B2

2,207words re-drilled

151verbs conjugated

60grammar chapters

40reading stories

4exams, 70% to pass

Step 2 · every word with audio — normal or slow

Step 4 · the repetition engine — cards you miss come back until you know them

You speak in every lesson

Each lesson ends with a Fala você block: you say the sentences out loud and write your own. Not a substitute for a real conversation partner — the training that makes one worth having.

Repetition is built in

Every test pulls from earlier lessons too. Your weakest tags come back as extra practice until you stop getting them wrong.

Brazilian, not European

Você, the gerund, open vowels, real gíria and the crase rules people actually use. São Paulo and Rio, not Lisbon.

Stories that grow with you

Forty stories, one per lesson, each longer than the last, using only words you have met. By Lição 40 you are reading irony and subtext.

Exams you can fail

Each level ends in a real exam, locked until every lesson is at 70%. You retry only what you got wrong, until it is all correct.

A grammar library

Sixty chapters you can read on their own — every tense, the subjunctive, regência, colocação — written as explanations, not tables.

One account, every device, offline

Set-up is one email. There is no password to invent or forget.

You log in with a link

Type your email and we send you a link. Click it and you are in. No password to choose, forget or reset — and nothing for anyone to steal.

Your progress follows you

Every score and every lesson you finish is saved to your account. Start on the laptop, carry on from the phone on the train — same place, same progress.

It works offline

Lessons you have opened stay on your device. The metro, a plane, a dead spot in the countryside — the lesson still runs, and your scores sync the moment you are back online.

The four levels

Start at A1. It is free and complete — eight lessons, an exam, stories and the whole grammar library. Decide about the rest once you know whether this suits you.

A1 · BEGINNER · FREE

Os primeiros passos

Introduce yourself, order food, tell the time, handle money, talk about your family and what you did yesterday. Land in São Paulo, take a taxi, check in and order dinner — all in Portuguese.

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A2 · ELEMENTARY · €29

O dia a dia

The past you keep needing, pronouns, directions, shopping, health, obligation and the connectors that turn sentences into paragraphs. Twelve lessons and an exam.

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B1 · INTERMEDIATE · €39

Opinião e nuance

The subjunctive, conditionals, the future, telling a long story properly and saying what you think without sounding blunt. Ten lessons and an exam.

Unlock B1 · €39 →

B2 · UPPER-INTERMEDIATE · €39

Como um brasileiro

Crase, regência, the formal register, street gíria, argumentative writing, and hearing the irony under a polite sentence. Ten lessons and an exam.

Unlock B2 · €39 →

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Comece hoje

Lição 1 takes about half an hour. By the end of it you can introduce yourself, say where you are from and ask how someone is — properly, not phrasebook-style.

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No card. No trial period. A1 stays free. Paid levels: one payment, VAT included, 14-day refund.

From your first word to reading irony in Portuguese