Speeku
The Portuguese of Portugal, not Brazil, with its own pronunciation, its tu and its você. Short lessons that get you listening and speaking from day one. Backed by science.
The course
Not a demo and not a word list. 163 lessons that start at Olá and end with you holding a conversation.
163lessonsstart to a conversation
1,734exercises17 different kinds
390words you will knowtaught, then brought back
8,284dictionary entrieson the phone, not a serverVariety
Five recalls of the same kind is one skill practised five times. So a word comes back differently every time: picked from a picture, tapped in a pair, built out of chips, conjugated across a whole table, and finally said out loud into the microphone.
Pick the picture
Speaking
Speeku turns the word it asked for into the sounds it is made of, listens to what you actually said, and compares the two. On the device, with the radio off. There is no server to send your voice to, because there is no server.
Say it out loud
The dictionary
Eight 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 earn.
EVERY ENTRYPronunciation
FOR 1,150 WORDSEvery form
Flashcards
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.
Private by design
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. That is why it works at 30,000 feet, in a tunnel, and on a mountain with no signal. The Android build does not request internet permission at all, and you can check that in the Play listing before you install.
Who it’s for
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.
Our method
Three new words at a time, and a lesson is not finished with one until you have climbed all four rungs: read it, hear it, say it, and finally recall it with nothing in front of you. Every rung is harder than the last, and the order is not an accident.
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4Completely. 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.
European: the Portuguese of Portugal, in its own pronunciation and its own grammar. Almost every other app teaches Brazilian.
From the first lesson, and in 35 of the 163. The app listens and checks whether you said the right word, on the device. Nothing is recorded, uploaded or kept.
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.
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.
163 lessons and 390 words, practised across 1,734 exercises in 17 different kinds, plus a 8,284-entry dictionary you can search offline.
163 lessons. No account, no subscription, no connection needed.
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