Cool MateFor Portuguese speakers
English for
Portuguese speakers.
Cool Mate translates every word, example, and grammar note into Portuguese. Real video clips, native English audio, and a feed designed for Brazilian and European Portuguese speakers.
Free to start. No textbook. No streak shame.
Built for Portuguese speakers
Tuned to how Portuguese speakers actually learn English.
Portuguese translations everywhere
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translated by native Portuguese editors. Brazilian Portuguese by default, European on request.
Cognates upfront
The feed pulls high-cognate words first so you build a 2,000-word base in weeks.
Sounds Portuguese skips
TH, schwa, the dark L. The feed drills these and gives you slow-mo audio to copy.
Miss a week, keep your progress
The Leitner box quietly catches you back up. No daily pressure.
Easy wins
Portuguese speakers already know these.
Words that look or sound nearly the same in Portuguese and English. Free vocabulary the day you start.
almost identical
almost identical
near identical
identical spelling
identical
lose the accent
near identical
near identical
Watch out
The traps Portuguese speakers usually fall into.
False friends, missing sounds, and the patterns school never warned you about.
Puxar looks like push, means pull. Most common door mistake in Portugal.
Parentes means relatives. Parents is pais.
Atualmente means currently. Actually is na verdade.
Portuguese has no TH. Think and sink collapse. Drill it.
English reduces unstressed vowels to a schwa. Portuguese keeps every vowel clear. The Portuguese-speaker accent shows up here.
Sample words
Real English challenges to try right now.
A taste of the Cool Mate feed. Tap any card to see the clip, audio, examples, and Portuguese translations.
Set
B1verb
to prepare or arrange something so that it is ready for use or in position
Will
B1verb
to want or like
Plus
B1preposition
used when the two numbers or amounts mentioned are being added together
Truth
B1noun
the true facts about something, rather than the things that have been invented or guessed
Coin
B1noun
a small flat piece of metal used as money
File
B1noun
a box or folded piece of card for keeping loose papers together and in order
Kiss
B1verb
to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye
Breathe
B1verb
to take air into your lungs and send it out again through your nose or mouth
Mom
B1noun
a mother
Stuff
B1noun
used to refer to a substance, material, group of objects, etc. when you do not know the name, when the name is not important or when it is obvious what you are talking about
Mix
B1verb
if two or more substances or things mix or you mix them, they combine, usually in a way that means they cannot easily be separated
Economy
B1noun
the relationship between production, trade and the supply of money in a particular country or region
Where to start
Pick a starting level that matches your reality.
We suggest A2 for most Portuguese speakers.
Most Portuguese speakers start comfortably at A2. School English often gets you part of the way to B1. The app picks up wherever you stalled.
How it works
Built for the way memory actually works.
Learn the phrase the way it's actually said.
Every challenge is a 3 to 15 second cut from a real show, news clip, or talk. You hear the rhythm, the stress, and the face behind the words.
An algorithm that times every clip.
An invisible Leitner box runs in the background. Each word comes back at the moment you're about to forget it. Fifty years of memory research, one tap.
Native audio, full speed and slow.
Every word has full-speed and slow-mo native audio. Tap once to copy the pronunciation the way a native actually says it.
Twelve native languages.
Definitions, examples, and grammar notes translate into your native language. Switch any time.
Questions
English for Portuguese speakers, answered.
Pick your CEFR level
Start where you are. Climb at your speed.
The first 500 words that unlock everything.
Open A1 English →Hold a real conversation. Slowly, but really.
Open A2 English →Watch shows. Talk shop. Live abroad.
Open B1 English →Sound like a person, not a textbook.
Open B2 English →Argue, joke, persuade. In English.
Open C1 English →Native-adjacent, on a good day.
Open C2 English →Scan with phone