Learn Portuguese with songs
Every Portuguese song in the catalog, with the words it teaches. 5 songs, 318 study entries and 175 quiz questions — all written for these specific songs, and all free to read on this page.
Learning Portuguese through music
Portuguese rewards anyone who already has Spanish and then quietly punishes them: the words look familiar, the vowels do not behave. European and Brazilian Portuguese also diverge far more in sound than on the page, which is precisely the sort of thing a recording makes obvious and a textbook flattens into a footnote. It is the smallest part of the catalog, so treat these cards as a foothold — enough to start hearing the difference, not enough to be a full course.
This part of the catalog
- Songs
- 5
- Study entries
- 318
- Quiz questions
- 175
- Levels
- A1- – B2-
- Years
- 1953 – 2011
The Portuguese words these songs share
These 60 words appear across the most Portuguese songs in the catalog, so they are the ones to learn first. Ranked by how many songs use them, translated by us, and taken word by word — never as lines of lyric.
| PT | EN | ES | IT | FR | NL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sol | sun | sol | sole | soleil | zon |
| amor |
Every Portuguese song in the catalog
Sorted from the easiest card to the hardest. Each one opens a full page with its own glossary and sample quiz.
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Pick a song, read its words, then play it. The first three need no account.
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