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.
New challenges being published. Check back soon.
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 else.
Open A1 English →Hold real conversations, even if they are short.
Open A2 English →The threshold level. Where English starts working for you.
Open B1 English →Where you stop translating and start thinking in English.
Open B2 English →Sound like the person you are in your native language.
Open C1 English →Indistinguishable from a confident native, on a good day.
Open C2 English →Scan with phone