Portuguese Essentials for Android

This is the worst language app I have ever used it's confusing convoluted I mean it explains nothing on how to set it up it's just really bad if you want to learn Portuguese I would actually pay to do it because it's a difficult language a beautiful language that matches romance Germanic Cyrillic African everything And this app really does not help

I'm writing this right after coming back from Brazil. It was useful, but not enough to carry a conversation. I've learned lots of words from this app, even though I used less than 40% of them. They need to put verbs, basic grammar and some sentence construction. Knowing lots of words but nothing else made me look like a caveman.

I love all their language learning apps (I have French, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese). They are easy, fast, and effective. In fact, I learned more using their (FREE) app, and in less time, than I did with my $299 Rosetta Stone. And notice I said their "free" versions.... I can imagine their full versions are even better - and I intend to purchase all of them.

Why is it so hard to specify Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese? It is not true that just because the majority of the world's Portuguese are in Brazil, that the majority of those wanting to learn Portuguese want Brazilian. I live in the California Central Valley, where most of the Portuguese are from the Azores, but also from mainland Portugal and Madeira. Americans and others who are not native Europeans from Portugal but originate from countries that were former colonies of Portugal are not Portuguese American, rather, they are codified as Lusitanic, or simply referred to by their present-day nationalities (Cape Verdean, Brazilian, etc.) although many citizens of former Portuguese colonies are also ethnically Portuguese. The language spoken in Brazil is Brazilian Portuguese, not Portuguese. I am deleting this app because I am Portuguese, want to brush up on Portuguese, and don't care about which language is more popular in your eyes. I'm going to purchase Berlitz instead.

This is just okay. It does help if you know a little Portuguese, although this seems more like Brazilian Portuguese than Portugal's Portuguese. It's not very fun, so you really need discipline (or fear) to keep up with the study. Don't expect to view this for an hour on your flight to Lisbon and learn anything worth using. But, that's true of any language app. I just expected more from the developer.