Speeku: Learn European Portuguese

Almost every language app teaches Brazilian Portuguese. Speeku teaches the Portuguese of Portugal from the first lesson: tu, comboio, estou a falar, and the swallowed vowels you actually hear in Lisbon and Porto.

It is a gamified course from A1 to B1: nearly 1,000 bite-sized lessons and over 11,000 exercises of more than 50 kinds (pick the picture, build the sentence, fill the gap, play the scene, fill the verb table), so the same word never comes back the same way twice. Every word and sentence is spoken in European Portuguese, a dictionary of more than 7,000 entries with European pronunciation and full verb tables is searchable on your phone, and flashcards bring back the words you are closest to forgetting.

Speaking drills in some lessons check that you said the right word, on the phone itself. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.

One-time payment: no subscription, no ads. Fully offline: the lessons, the dictionary and the speech checking all run on your phone, and the app does not ask for permission to use the internet. Your progress stays on your phone.