Speeku

From Olá
to a real
conversation.

The Portuguese of Portugal, not Brazil, with its own pronunciation, its tu and its você. One short, enjoyable lesson at a time. Backed by science.

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The course

Inside your European Portuguese course

Not a demo and not a word list. More than 990 small lessons that start at Olá and end with you holding a conversation.

990lessons
11,400exercises
2,600words you will know
7,300dictionary entries

Variety

Fifty-eight types of exercise

A word never comes back the same way twice. Pick it out of four pictures, build it out of chips, catch it in a conversation, walk it across a town map, put it in the right room, then say it out loud into the microphone. Which is why ten exercises go by quickly, and why the fortieth lesson still does not feel like the first one again.

  • Pick the answer
  • Build the sentence
  • Fill the gap
  • Play the scene
  • Match the pairs
  • Words card
  • Fill the verb table
  • Sort into buckets
  • + 50 more!
Pick the picture in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonFill the whole table in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonName the instrument in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonSort the words in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonPlay the scene in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonLearn the grammar in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonEvery word you have met in a Speeku European Portuguese lessonLook one up in a Speeku European Portuguese lesson

Pick the picture

Meet the cast

Every word and sentence in the course is spoken, so you hear European Portuguese from day one. Tap a face to say hello.

Speaking

Practise your pronunciation

Speeku turns the word it asked for into the sounds it is made of, listens to what you actually said, and compares the two. It tells you which word it heard, not how native you sound. Nothing is recorded, and there is no server to send a voice to.

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Say it out loud

Olá
ɔlˈa
That’s the word

The dictionary

A real dictionary, not a word list

Over seven thousand entries live on your phone, each with its European pronunciation and, where Portuguese inflects, the whole table. Search finds a word in the shape you met it in, offline.

Then the table you just read comes back as a drill you have to fill in yourself. Same table twice: once to read, once to learn.

Looking a word up in the offline European Portuguese dictionary in Speeku

EVERY ENTRYPronunciation

FOR 2,400 WORDSEvery form

1,700 OF THEMUsed in a sentence

Flashcards

Practise your vocabulary with flashcards too

Every word a lesson teaches you turns into a card. Run a deck whenever you have a minute, on the tram or in a queue, and the app deals you the ones you are closest to forgetting first.

You never have to plan a review or build a deck. It is already there, and it already knows which words are slipping.

Every European Portuguese word Speeku has taught you, in one searchable list

Private by design

Learn on the plane. No account, no subscription.

Not “we don’t sell your data.” Speeku cannot send it anywhere: the lessons, the dictionary and the speech checking all run on your phone. So there is a lesson waiting at 30,000 feet, in a tunnel, and on a mountain with no signal.

The Android build does not request internet permission at all. You can check that in the Play listing before you install.

Who it’s for

For anyone headed to Portugal

Almost every app teaches Brazilian. This one teaches the Portuguese of Portugal.

Whether you are a complete beginner or coming back to it after learning the other one, the course starts at Olá and teaches Portugal's pronunciation, its tu and its você, and the way a sentence is actually put together in Lisbon.

Olá! Sou o Pedro. E tu?Hi! I'm Pedro. And you?

Chamo-me Rosa. Prazer!I'm Rosa. Nice to meet you!

Our method

Knowing a word is four skills

Four new words at a time, and a word is not yours until you have climbed all four rungs: read it, hear it, say it, then recall it with nothing in front of you.

The drills keep changing so the rungs can stay the same. That is the whole trick, and it is why an evening of this does not feel like an evening of study.

Read how the course is built.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  1. Read it
  2. Hear it
  3. Say it
  4. Recall it

FAQ

Is this European or Brazilian Portuguese?

European: the Portuguese of Portugal, in its own pronunciation and its own grammar. Almost every other app teaches Brazilian.

How long is a lesson?

About 11 exercises, which is a tram ride. Four new words, then the same words coming back in different shapes, 58 different shapes in this course, so it stays interesting to the end. There is no streak to protect, and nothing tells you off for missing a day.

Can I practise speaking European Portuguese?

From the first lesson, and in 78 of the 993. The app listens and checks whether you said the right word, on the device. Nothing is recorded, uploaded or kept.

Does it grade my accent?

No, and it will not pretend to. It confirms that you said the right word. Judging how native you sound is not something it can do honestly, so it does not claim to.

How much European Portuguese does it teach?

990+ lessons and 2,600+ words, practised in 11,400+ exercises of 16 different kinds, plus a dictionary of 7,300+ entries you can search offline.

Does Speeku work without internet?

Completely. The lessons, the dictionary and the speech checking all run on your phone. The Android app does not even request internet permission. It works on a plane, in a tunnel, and on a mountain with no signal.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up and no password. Your progress is stored on your phone, which is also the only place it could be.

Say your first words this evening.

Four new words at a time, one small lesson at a time, and a real dictionary behind every word.

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