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Speak Portuguese. The Brazilian way.

Voice-first AI roleplay. Brazilian Portuguese, padaria to boardroom.

An AI tutor that listens, talks back, and tells you exactly where you wobbled. Order pão de queijo in São Paulo, haggle at a feira, hold your own at a Rio churrascaria — in five-minute sessions you will actually finish.

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Two hundred million Brazilians speak fast, warm and loose. Voca gets you into the conversation instead of watching it happen.

A real Voca session · A1 · Padaria · São Paulo

Live
  1. Atendente
    Bom dia! O que vai ser?
    Morning! What will it be?
  2. You
    Um pão de queijo e um café, por favor.
    A pão de queijo and a coffee, please.
  3. Atendente
    O café é pingado ou puro?
    Coffee with milk or black?
  4. You
    Pingado, por favor. Para viagem.
    With milk, please. To go.
  5. Atendente
    Prontinho. São oito reais.
    There you go. Eight reais.
Voca scored: vocab ✓ · pronunciation 90% · grammar ✓ · task completed

Why Portuguese, why Voca

The Portuguese you will actually use.

Brazilian Portuguese is the language where breakfast at the padaria is a daily ritual, where strangers talk to you in the queue, and where the difference between polite and friendly is a single pronoun. Voca puts you in the conversations that actually happen: a bakery counter at 7am, a feira stall on Saturday, a boteco on Friday night, a Monday stand-up in São Paulo. You will stop translating in your head — because nobody is going to wait for you to.

How it works

One loop. Five minutes. You leave each session having said something out loud in Portuguese that you couldn't say before.

  1. 101

    Warm up

    A two-minute brief in your language — the words, the culture, the things people actually say.

  2. 202

    Drill

    Tap-to-reveal flashcards. Spaced repetition keeps the new words in your head until you need them.

  3. 303

    Roleplay

    Speak to an AI character living the scene. They listen, react, push back — in character.

  4. 404

    Score

    Vocabulary, grammar, fluency, pronunciation — graded line by line. CEFR progress you can point to.

Nine of sixty Portuguese scenarios

Padaria to boardroom. São Paulo to Rio.

Sixty scenarios per language, four levels deep. Same situation, deeper conversation as you grow — you finish a level when you can actually handle it.

A1 = first words · B2 = confident conversation

  1. 01
    PadariaA1+
    Order breakfast at a São Paulo bakery
  2. 02
    FeiraA2+
    Pick mangoes at the Saturday market
  3. 03
    RestauranteA2+
    Navigate a churrascaria without surrendering
  4. 04
    TáxiA2+
    Get across Rio without the scenic surcharge
  5. 05
    HotelB1+
    Talk your way into a late checkout
  6. 06
    FarmáciaB1+
    Explain a headache without miming
  7. 07
    BotecoB1+
    Hold the table talk on a Friday night
  8. 08
    EscritórioB2+
    Lead a stand-up in São Paulo
  9. 09
    FutebolB2+
    Defend your time at the bar

Portuguese FAQs

How long does it take to learn Portuguese?+

To order at a padaria and hold a basic chat, 3-4 weeks of daily 10-minute sessions. Portuguese is rated Category I by the US Foreign Service — the easiest tier for English speakers. The slow part is finding people to actually speak with. That is the part Voca solves.

Brazilian or European Portuguese?+

Brazilian — the Portuguese of São Paulo, Rio and two hundred million speakers, with voices to match. European Portuguese is on the roadmap.

Is Portuguese hard for English speakers?+

One of the easiest — and if you have any Spanish, you are already halfway there. The famous nasal vowels are exactly the kind of thing voice-first practice fixes: Voca grades your pronunciation sound by sound, so ão stops being a mystery.

Can Voca help me prep for CELPE-Bras?+

For the oral interaction component, yes — Voca trains exactly the spontaneous, task-based speaking CELPE-Bras tests. For the written parts you will want a structured course alongside it.

I am travelling to Brazil in a month. Can Voca get me ready?+

Yes. A month of daily 10-minute sessions gets most learners comfortable with bakeries, restaurants, taxis, hotels and small talk — there are scenarios built for exactly those moments.

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