There are more than a hundred shared Portuguese decks on AnkiWeb, but how do you know which one to choose? The ranking might seem like a good starting point, but a popular deck isn't necessarily a good one.
That's why we developed a framework for choosing a good Anki deck and built an open-source AI tool to evaluate decks against it.
Of the first 60 decks AnkiWeb lists for Portuguese, 27 aren't for English speakers learning it, and most of those teach English to Portuguese speakers. We ran the 30 that remained through our analyzer. None reached a grade of Good, and the highest score is 68.
Check which variety a deck teaches before you download it. The top two differ: Pimsleur is Brazilian, and the Phrase Book is European. Here are the results:
The 10 Portuguese decks that scored highest
| # | Deck | Score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pimsleur Portuguese (Brazilian)mixed | 68 | Mixed |
| 2 | Portuguese Phrase Book (Continental pronunciation)phrase book | 67 | Mixed |
| 3 | Comprehensive Brazilian Portuguese Conjugation (PT-BR)conjugation drill | 66 | Mixed |
| 4 | All Portuguese sentences with audio from Tatoebasentence deck | 64 | Mixed |
| 5 | Portuguese > English – Phrase Book,European Portuguese audiophrase book | 63 | Mixed |
| 6 | European Portuguese Verb Conjugationsconjugation drill | 62 | Mixed |
| 7 | Portuguese Sentences (2/3)sentence deck · part 2 of 3 | 62 | Mixed |
| 8 | Portuguese basic until advancedmixed | 61 | Mixed |
| 9 | Portuguese Sentencessentence deck | 58 | Mixed |
| 10 | Portuguese Sentences (1/3)sentence deck · part 1 of 3 | 57 | Mixed |
A flashcard companion to the Pimsleur Brazilian Portuguese audio course, with audio on every card and a careful lesson order; worth studying if you are taking the course, but a weak fit as a standalone deck.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners currently taking the Pimsleur Brazilian Portuguese course who want reviews matched to each lesson
- Absolute beginners who want short, audio-backed phrases (greetings, numbers, ordering, directions) in a careful order
- Learners who want to practice listening and speaking, since every card has its own recording and the deck has a recognition card and a production card for each note
Not for you if
- Learners who do not own or plan to use the audio course, since the cards carry no explanations and no lesson context
- Intermediate learners looking for reading practice or sentence-level context; most cards are single words or 2-3 word chunks
- Anyone aiming for broad frequency coverage: only 37% of the top 2,000 Portuguese words are taught
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Verdict
The deck does a few things well. The order is gentle: 90% of sentences add at most one new word, and the sentence new-word rate drops from 26.6% to 7.8% by the middle of the deck. The opening is survival material ("Com licença.", "Bom dia.", "eu me chamo"). All 100 of the most common words are close to fully covered (97 taught), mostly early. Every note has its own recording, and the Brazilian forms are consistent (você, ônibus, ruim, cardápio). It does less well at teaching in context. Only 31% of the notes are sentences, and most of those sit in the Bonus Pack subdecks ("Ela trabalha para uma empresa multinacional."). The rest are bare items such as "a pé", "padaria" and "ter nascido", with no example, explanation or tag. Coverage thins fast: 53% of the top 1,000 words and 37% of the top 2,000. Later lessons lean on course-specific words (azulejos, odontologia, feijoada, churrascaria) while common words like apenas, cada, contra and durante never appear. A few cards are loose or wrong in the sample: "I would have liked" is paired with "eu gostaria de" (would like), and "Yes, but rarely" is paired with "Sim, mas é raro." The sample also includes European spellings ("húmido") and an older one ("Boa idéia"), which sit oddly in a Brazilian deck.
Use this if you are working through the Pimsleur Brazilian course and want spaced repetition tied to its 150 lessons. Study each lesson's cards right after you hear it, and the audio and sequencing do real work. Do not use it as your only course, or as a way to build general reading or conversational vocabulary. It teaches no grammar and shows few words in a sentence, and its vocabulary choices follow the course, not frequency.
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A European Portuguese travel phrase book with audio on every card: worth studying for a trip to Portugal, but not as a general course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Travelers to Portugal who already know basic pronunciation and conjugation
- Learners who want European Portuguese phrases for transport, accommodation, food, health and emergencies
- People who want listening practice, since nearly every note has a recording
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners with no grounding in Portuguese sounds or verb forms
- Learners who want a frequency-ordered core vocabulary or a route to fluent conversation
- Anyone studying Brazilian Portuguese (autocarro, comboio and casa de banho are European)
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Verdict
The deck does one job well: it gives you short, natural things to say in Portugal, grouped by situation. In the sample, phrases such as "Um bilhete de ida «para Braga», por favor.", "Este táxi está livre?" and "Pode preparar sem ovos?" are what a visitor actually needs, and they use European vocabulary (autocarro, pequeno almoço, telemóvel). Most sentences add one new word or none, and the slot words marked with «» show you which part to swap. Nearly every note has its own recording. The weaknesses come from the format. About 63% of the notes are single words or short phrases, and the last third is mostly a vocabulary block of bare items such as "a fralda" and "o garfo". Gendered pairs take two notes ("cheio" / "cheia", "amarelo" / "amarela"), so you review near-duplicates. Basics arrive very late: "sim", "com", "sem", "tu", "vocês" and "você" are among the last cards, and the sample shows no explanation of grammar. The deck teaches 33% of the 1,000 most common words and never uses mas, ou, também or porque, so you will not be able to build sentences of your own from it.
Use it if you are heading to Portugal, already know basic pronunciation and verb forms, and want ready-made phrases for tickets, rooms, food, health and emergencies, along with listening practice. The author says as much in the description. Skip it if you are starting from zero, if you want a path to general conversation or reading, or if you want Brazilian Portuguese. Treat it as a supplement to a course, not a replacement.
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A 2,718-sentence cloze drill covering 50 Brazilian Portuguese verbs across nearly every tense and mood, worth studying if you follow its filtered-deck method and skip the obscure verbs at the end.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners at A2–B2 who already know the basic tenses and want repetition on irregular verbs, one verb family at a time
- People who will read the guide and run a per-verb filtered deck instead of working through the stored order
- Anyone who wants all tenses and moods for a single verb in one sitting, with a fixed pronoun set each time
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who need vocabulary, explanations or a gentle first pass at the grammar
- Learners who want contextual, connected material such as dialogues or stories
- Anyone expecting to open the deck and study it straight through in default order
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Verdict
The core design works. Each card shows a tense label, a pronoun cue, an English tense gloss and a short sentence with one conjugated verb blanked and the infinitive as a hint, for example "Eu [falo] português e inglês." Sentences average 6.4 words, and 94% add at most one new word, so you spend your effort on the verb form and not on decoding. Audio is present on every study note (I can't judge its quality), and the per-person cards (eu, você/ele, nós, vocês/eles) are consistent across the common verbs. The weaknesses are in the later material. The deck pads out to 50 verbs with rare and defective ones such as prazer, jazer, reaver, alhear and provir, which produces lines like "O gato teria prazido ao menino ontem" and "As águas frias teriam prazido aos cachorros." The sample also shows cues that disagree with the sentence: "Talvez ele diga" has the English "Maybe he will say" but the cue "he says", and "Talvez vocês tenham rido de nervoso" is glossed "Maybe you laughed." The Regularity tags are inconsistent, with prazer tagged Defectivo on some cards and Irregular or Regular on others. Each card is an isolated sentence, there are no explanations on the cards, and the how-to lives in an external guide.
Use it if you already know the basic tenses and want high-volume, reflexive practice on the common irregular verbs (ser, estar, ir, ter, fazer, dizer, poder, querer, pôr, trazer, ouvir). You also have to be willing to set it up as the author describes: new cards per day at 0, then a filtered deck per verb, with the Filter::Suspend cards suspended. Skip it if you are a true beginner who wants to learn vocabulary or grammar from explanation, if you want connected context or stories, or if you want to study the cards in the order they are stored. The stored order goes verb by verb and ignores the Difficulty tags: in 47% of cross-level note pairs the higher level comes first. I scored the default order, and the tag path would add only a little.
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A large, audio-backed pool of Tatoeba Portuguese sentences ordered from easy to hard, useful as a supplement to a course but not a course in itself.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners with a separate grammar source who want listening and reading practice with native recordings
- Upper beginners and intermediates who want a long, gradually harder queue of short sentences
- People comfortable with Anki who will adjust the templates and suspend cards to suit their needs
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need grammar explained
- Learners who want one consistent variety (the sample mixes Brazilian and European forms such as pra, ônibus, Dá-me and Passe-me)
- Anyone who wants themed lessons, dialogues or connected stories
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Verdict
The ordering works. The first 1,100 notes are single words and bare verb forms (Quero, Sei, Quem, Obrigado), and in the sample the sentences that follow add one new word at a time, with 96% of sentences adding at most one. Every one of the 11,019 notes has a recording, and each note makes reading, listening and production cards. Vocabulary is frequency-driven: all of the top 100 words and 90% of ranks 101-500 are taught. The weaknesses are in the material. Nothing explains grammar, so Dá-me o livro, Deem-me o livro and Me liga arrive with no comment on form or register. The sentences are single lines with no link between cards. The sample includes many low-value lines (Tom parece faccioso, Marco Antônio e Caio Cássio foram eleitos tribunos). Late in the deck, sentence length jumps to a mean of 9.6 words, ending with a 27-word line about calculating the mass of the Earth. That is well past the stated B1 ceiling. The deck is also missing 17% of the top 1,000 words (caso, final, exemplo, base) and 29% of ranks 1,001-2,000, while rare words like arrotar and assobiar appear early. The sample mixes Brazilian and European forms with no labeling.
Use this deck if you already have a textbook or course for grammar and want a lot of short, natively recorded sentences to train your ear and your reading speed, and you can tolerate a random-looking mix of topics. It suits upper beginners and intermediate learners best, especially the first few thousand notes, where the sentences are short and mostly built from words you have already seen. Skip it if you are starting from zero and need explanations, if you want a structured course with themed lessons, or if you need one consistent variety of Portuguese. Learners who dislike unconnected sentences or want images will also find little here. Audio is present on every note, but this analysis could not judge its quality, so play several cards before committing.
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A European Portuguese travel phrase book with audio on nearly every card and a practical A1-A2 core, but thin vocabulary coverage and no grammar teaching make it a supplement, not a course.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Travelers heading to Portugal who need ready-made phrases for transport, lodging, food, health and emergencies
- Beginners who want European Portuguese audio on nearly every card
- Learners pairing a course or textbook with a drillable set of survival phrases and basic nouns
Not for you if
- Anyone who needs Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation or vocabulary
- Learners who want a grammar-led or frequency-led route to everyday conversation
- People who want connected dialogue, stories or reading practice
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its practical, short travel sentences and the audio on 1,100 of 1,102 notes. Phrases recur in swappable frames, such as "Podia ..., por favor?" and "Pode preparar sem manteiga / ovos / caldo de carne?", and 74% of sentences add at most one new word. Gender pairs are handled with (m) and (f) tags, and the spelling is current European Portuguese (autocarro, direta). The weaknesses are structural. Order follows travel topics, with 685 single-word cards that carry no context. Only 34% of the top 1,000 words on the frequency list are taught, and the late parts fill with travel-specific words such as chávena, francesinha and multibanco. Some glosses are stilted or off, for example "It's near «to ...»" and "What are the rates? (mobile phone)" for "Qual é o valor cobrado?". The clitic order in "Pode-me dar" leans toward the Brazilian pattern, and a few stray markers such as «á» and [m_] appear in fields.
Use it if you are visiting Portugal, or starting European Portuguese, and want phrases you can say and hear with native audio alongside a textbook or course. Skip it if you want a path to conversation or reading, a grammar explanation, or a frequency-driven core vocabulary. It also won't help much if you need Brazilian Portuguese or want connected text and dialogue.
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A 276-card drill of 19 common Portuguese verbs in three past and present tenses, with audio on every card; worth studying only as a supplement, and only after you fix a few errors.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- A2-B1 learners who already know what the three tenses mean and want repetition on forms
- Learners drilling irregular preterite and imperfect forms (ir, ver, vir, fazer, ter, poder, dizer) with audio
- People who want a short, finite grid of 19 high-frequency verbs to add to a wider course
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need vocabulary, greetings and basic sentence building
- Anyone who needs consistently European Portuguese, since Brazilian vocabulary is mixed in
- Learners who want grammar explanations or an infinitive on the card
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Verdict
The deck does one thing consistently: each verb runs through the same grid of Presente, Pretérito Perfeito and Pretérito Imperfeito across five person slots, with a short everyday sentence and audio for both form and sentence. The sentences are mostly 4 to 8 words and plausible ("Eu abro a janela todas as manhãs", "Ele ia ao mercado aos sábados"). It also includes the irregular forms that matter (fui, fiz, tive, pude, vim, disse). It falls short in the details. The sample shows "dissémos" on the answer line while the sentence has "dissemos", and "Tu podias visitar-nos sempre que quisesse" has a verb that does not agree with its subject. The same sentence, "Ele viu o seu amigo na festa", appears on notes #53 and #239. Several English glosses drift from the Portuguese: "Eu fiz uma viagem" is rendered "I took a trip", and "Eu fazia bolo" is rendered "I used to bake a cake". The deck calls itself European Portuguese (falámos, tu), yet it also uses ônibus, cachorro, controle remoto and shopping. The grid also forces some awkward cards. Note #141 puts the singular havia in an "Eles/Elas/Vocês" slot labeled "There were". No card states the infinitive, and there is no grammar explanation. The new-word rate stays between 13% and 20% for most of the deck, but the first 26 notes are heavy (41% new words, only 19% of sentences at one new word or fewer). Ser appears around card 76, ter around 142, and poder comes last.
Use it if you already know the basic verb system and want repeated, audio-backed practice producing irregular forms from an English cue, especially if you can spend a little time cleaning it. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs vocabulary and explanations, if you need strictly European Portuguese or strictly Brazilian Portuguese, or if you want to learn through connected, meaningful context. This is a paradigm drill, not a course. The 305 words it teaches cover about 21% of the 1,000 most common words, and it never uses words like e, por, mas, também or ainda.
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A 36,375-card Tatoeba sentence deck, ordered by word frequency, that gives you solid reading recognition of about 2,600 common Portuguese words, with no audio, grammar support or context.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners at A2-B1 who want large-scale reading exposure to the 2,500 or so most common Portuguese words
- People who already study grammar elsewhere and want example sentences to reinforce it
- Self-directed learners willing to suspend repetitive cards and add their own audio
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a gentle first 50 cards and explanations
- Learners who want listening or pronunciation practice from the deck itself
- Anyone who wants grammar taught in a planned order, or sentences tied to dialogues or a topic
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Verdict
The ordering is the deck's real strength. After the opening, new words arrive at 0.6% to 1.3% of tokens per tenth, and sentences average about 6 words, so each card is mostly review plus a small new piece. The top 100 words are all taught, and 98% of ranks 101-500 and 91% of the top 1,000 are covered. The sentences in the sample are natural and short, for example 'Eu não consigo imaginar minha vida sem ele' and 'Coloque o livro de volta na prateleira'. The weaknesses are also clear. The first cards are a cold start: #2 and #3 show 5 of 5 and 7 of 8 words new, even though the deck-wide measurement says nearly every sentence adds at most one. Tatoeba's near-duplicates take up many slots (#10-13 are four versions of 'This is my pencil', #9094-9096 repeat 'I waited three hours'), and 'Tom' recurs constantly. Nothing sequences grammar, there is no audio or image, and the cards are isolated sentences. The 1,000-2,000 band is only 61% covered, and the words that are missing (rede, federal, fase, tribunal) are news and institutional vocabulary. Later cards also add rarer words such as esquiar, suéter and escrivaninha.
Use this if you already know some Portuguese and want a large pool of simple reading examples to build recognition vocabulary, and you can pair it with a grammar resource and your own audio. It suits an A2-B1 learner best. A true beginner will struggle with the first few dozen cards because they carry too many unknown words and no explanation. Do not use it if you need to learn to speak or understand speech, want grammar taught in order, or want European Portuguese specifically, since the sample mixes Brazilian forms ('você', 'conosco') with 'tu', 'vós' and 'Dá-me' without labels.
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Part 2 of a 3-part deck. Each part is ranked on its own score: part 1 57, #10 · part 2 (this one) 62 · part 3 56, #11.
A 1,595-card sentence-plus-vocabulary deck for Brazilian Portuguese that is worth studying as a beginner's first thousand words, with a few known errors to correct and nothing to carry you past A2.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners who want a graded run of short Brazilian Portuguese sentences, each introducing one new word and each paired with audio
- Learners who already have a textbook or teacher for grammar and want drill material on high-frequency words
- Learners who like cloze-style, word-by-word growth: the first 100 or so notes cover pronouns, possessives, 'com', 'por', 'como' and 'quer'
Not for you if
- Anyone aiming for B1 or beyond: the deck reaches only 847 distinct words and its longest sentences in the sample are about eight words
- Learners who need grammar explained: the cards contain no notes on tense, gender, or pronoun choice
- Learners who want connected context such as dialogues, stories or a course sequence
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Verdict
What it does well: the sentence strand adds almost one new word at a time (96% of sentences add at most one), starting with cards like 'É com você.' and 'Não é isso.' The most common words come first (99 of the top 100 in the opening quarter), and each target word usually gets a second sentence, such as 'Tom foi à praia.' after 'Não é minha praia.' Every note has audio. What it does badly: the vocabulary thins out fast after the basics (49% of the top 1,000 words, 31% of the top 2,000), and some mid-deck stretches go to numbers, foods and nationalities (setecentos, goiaba, haitiano) while words like pra, além and através never appear. The sentences come from a Tatoeba-style corpus with some bad matches: 'Ele é grande.' is translated 'He is tall.' and 'Seja inteligente.' is translated 'Be a good boy.' In the sample, one vocabulary card reads 'dentist' on both sides, and there are typos ('açucar', 'craker', 'afternoom'). The Basic cards form a second strand with its own order, so the closing cards are 'Oi', 'Olá' and 'Bom dia', which a beginner needs first. Nothing in the deck explains grammar.
Use it if you are an A1 to A2 learner who wants a large stock of short, audio-backed sentences, can already read English prompts comfortably, and will correct the odd error as you meet it. Skip it if you want a course, grammar explanations, connected text or dialogue, or material that carries you to B1. With 847 distinct words and sentences averaging about three words, the stated A1-B1 range, and the shared-page claim of 'beginner until advanced', overstate what is here.
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A 3,001-card Portuguese sentence deck that starts at fragments and builds to short conversational lines, but with no audio, no grammar help and a small vocabulary, it works best as a supplement.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Beginners with an outside grammar source who want many short, graded sentences to read
- Learners who want high-frequency words (top 100 mostly covered early) in natural conversational phrasing
- People who like both recognition (Read) and production (Speak) practice from the same material
Not for you if
- Anyone who needs audio or listening practice from the deck itself
- Learners who want grammar explained or structures introduced deliberately
- Learners aiming at a broad vocabulary: 328 of the top 1,000 words and 388 of the top 2,000 are taught
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its ramp and its sentence quality. It opens with cards like "O que?" and "Não é?", moves to "Eu também acho." and ends on lines like "Aonde pensas que vais?", and 98% of sentences add at most one new word. The Portuguese in the sample is natural spoken language. It also front-loads common vocabulary: 90 of the 100 most frequent words are taught, and the first 69 new words are almost all in the top 1,000. Against that, the deck has no audio and no images, and nothing explains grammar. Subjunctive forms such as "tenhas" and "dês" appear with no preparation. The cards are unconnected fragments with no dialogue or topic grouping. Only 507 distinct words are taught, which covers 33% of the top 1,000, and 57% of the cards are single words or short phrases. The deck mixes European and Brazilian forms ("tu" and "você", "Tenta" next to "Vá lá") without labels.
Use it if you are a beginner or a low-intermediate learner who already has a course, grammar book or audio source and wants a lot of short, easy repetitions in order of difficulty. It suits someone who tolerates European Portuguese or can sort out the mix. Skip it if you want a stand-alone course, need listening practice and pronunciation, or want vocabulary beyond the most basic few hundred words. Skip it too if you want to know which register or variety each card belongs to. The deck is cheap to start and weak as a primary resource.
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A very large Tatoeba-based Portuguese-to-English sentence deck, ordered by word frequency, that is worth studying as a reading-recognition drill if you can tolerate scattered translation errors and no audio.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Worth it if
- Learners with a few basics who want a high volume of short, comprehensible Portuguese sentences to read
- Brazilian Portuguese learners building recognition of the core 500 to 800 words in varied contexts
- People who will add their own audio and are comfortable correcting a card when a translation looks off
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need pronunciation, explained grammar, or a guided first lesson
- Anyone who wants speaking or listening practice straight from the deck, since it has no audio
- Learners who need vocabulary past the top 1,000 to 2,000 words, such as news, politics or work language
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Verdict
The sequencing is the deck's real strength. In the measurements, every sentence adds at most one new word, and the new-word rate stays between 0.3% and 0.5% from part 2 onward. The first 128 words are almost all top-1,000 words, and cards like #17720 'Jogar tênis é fácil para mim.' are built entirely from words you have already seen. The weaknesses are in the content. The opening is a run of fragments ('Eu!', 'Que é?', 'É!'), and some translations are wrong or loose: 'É!' is glossed 'Yes!', 'É o Tom.' is 'That's Tom's.', 'É ele, não é?' is 'It's his, innit?', and 'Você é ele.' is 'You are the one.' Other cards have small Portuguese slips, such as 'Por que elas vem aqui?' (should be 'vêm') and 'Por quê todo mundo me odeia?'. The deck is also heavily repetitive: the last notes include three near-identical cards for 'I have to fix this', and Tom is the subject of a large share of the sample. All 35,430 cards draw on only 802 distinct words, so you see each word in dozens of sentences but never leave a narrow band. It teaches 582 of the 1,000 most common words and 750 of the top 2,000. Common words such as governo, sistema and informação never appear. There is no audio, no grammar explanation, and no connecting context beyond the single sentence.
Use this if you already know a little Portuguese, lean toward Brazilian usage (você, tênis), and want a large volume of short, mostly natural sentences to read and recognize, with the understanding that you will skim past some bad cards. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs pronunciation, grammar explanations, or a guided path, if you need vocabulary beyond roughly 800 words, or if you are studying European Portuguese. Do not expect to finish all 35,430 cards; most learners will need to cap the daily new count and stop well short of the end.
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Part 1 of a 3-part deck. Each part is ranked on its own score: part 1 (this one) 57 · part 2 62, #7 · part 3 56, #11.
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In the order AnkiWeb lists them when you search for “portuguese”, leaving out the decks we skipped. Open any row for its full report.
1Portuguese Phrase Book (Continental pronunciation)39 AnkiWeb ratings 67 Mixedour #2
Number 2 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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2Speaking Brazilian School - Portuguese for Beginners27 AnkiWeb ratings 51 Weakour #14
A 594-note Brazilian Portuguese beginner deck with a good survival-phrase opening and mostly bare vocabulary after that; worth using as a supplement, not as a course.
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Verdict
The first 30 notes are what a beginner needs: 'Oi, tudo bem?', 'Qual é o seu nome?', 'Poderia falar mais devagar, por favor?', 'Eu não entendi.' The measurements agree: 90% of the first 63 words are in the top 1,000, and 67 of the top 100 words are taught. The 100 sentences in the deck are short and natural, and 80% of them add at most one new word. After the opening the deck turns into topic lists (rooms, fruit, clothes, numbers, places) and drill frames like 'Eu vou abrir' and 'Vender - Eu vendo'. Only 17% of notes are sentences, there is no audio or image, and nothing explains the grammar. Coverage is thin past the first few hundred words: 23% of the top 1,000 and 16% of the top 2,000. Very common words such as mas, já, também, sobre and ainda never appear. Rare words arrive early: lavanderia sits at 26% of the deck, and gorjeta, risoto and suéter come later. In the sample there are also real errors: 'caderbo' for notebook, 'Good afternoom', 'I'l wear', and 'limonada suíça' as the gloss for plain lemonade. Both 'lime' and 'lemon' map to a limão card, with 'limão siciliano' for lemon. 'coffee' and 'coffee shop' both answer 'café'.
Use this if you are a complete beginner learning Brazilian Portuguese and already have a course, tutor or textbook that supplies grammar, listening and context. It works well for the first week or two of phrases and for quick vocabulary in everyday topics. Skip it if you want one deck to carry you through A1-A2, if you want to learn the most common words first, or if you need to train your ear. Also skip it if you are studying European Portuguese. Check any spelling you are unsure of against a dictionary before you trust the card.
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners learning Brazilian Portuguese who want greetings, classroom phrases and polite requests in the first days
- Learners who already have a course or teacher and want a pocket vocabulary drill for rooms, food, clothes and places
- People who want recall in both directions, since every note makes an English-to-Portuguese card and a reverse card
- Learners who accept short, self-contained cards and will add their own context
Not for you if
- Learners who want a self-contained A1-A2 course with explained grammar and connected dialogue
- Anyone who wants to learn the most frequent words first, since only 23% of the top 1,000 is covered
- Learners who need to hear the language, since no card has audio
- European Portuguese learners, since the sample is clearly Brazilian (Oi, Você, jaqueta, a gente)
- Intermediate learners, who will find mostly bare nouns and drill frames
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3Portuguese > English – Phrase Book,European Portuguese audio17 AnkiWeb ratings 63 Mixedour #5
Number 5 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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4Portuguese Sentences40 AnkiWeb ratings 58 Mixedour #9
Number 9 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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5Portuguese Core 100 - Basic words (EN PT with audio)12 AnkiWeb ratings 47 Weakour #25
Portuguese Core 100 is a small, accurate, audio-and-image-backed list of about 100 words and phrases that works as a first-day pronunciation drill but is too thin and unordered to serve as a course.
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Verdict
The deck is clean where it counts. In the sample the Portuguese-English pairs are correct (oito/eight, perna/leg, Obrigado./Thank you!), every note has audio and an image, and the recall task on each card is plain. It is weak as a curriculum. The material is 101 items shuffled across themes: 'fevereiro', 'oito', 'segundo', 'bom', 'amanhã' and 'Boa noite.' all appear in the first six cards. The measurements show only 1 sentence of 4+ words among 196 measured notes, so there is no context and no grammar. It covers 77 of the 1,000 most common words (8%) and leaves out basics like 'que', 'e', 'uma', 'com', 'você' and 'muito'. Rarer items such as 'programador' and 'cozinheiro' turn up in the middle of the deck.
Use it if you are a true beginner who wants a short warm-up on months, days, numbers, body parts, greetings and a few jobs, with native audio on each word. Do not use it as your main resource or expect it to get you to reading or conversation. Pair it with a sentence-based deck or a course. The deck also stores each word as two separate notes, one per direction (Friday/sexta-feira at #51-52, November at #7 and #12). The second direction can give the answer away if it comes soon after the first, so shuffling the order, as the author suggests, helps only partly.
Worth it if
- Absolute beginners who want a quick first pass at months, weekdays, numbers 0-10, body parts and basic greetings
- Learners who want to hear native audio for each word and see a picture alongside it
- Travelers who need a handful of stock phrases such as 'Bom dia.', 'Obrigado.', 'Tudo bem?' and 'Prazer em conhecê-lo.'
- Anyone who wants a short, finishable deck as a supplement to a course
Not for you if
- Learners who want to read or follow Portuguese sentences, since the sample has almost none
- Anyone who wants grammar explained or patterns built up in a sensible order
- Learners aiming for the core 1,000 words, since the deck covers only 8% of them and omits most function words and pronouns
- Intermediate learners, who will already know nearly everything here
- Learners aiming at European Portuguese, since 'policial' and 'cerveja' read as Brazilian-leaning and the deck does not say which variety it teaches
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6Portuguese Sentences with Audio12 AnkiWeb ratings 49 Weakour #19
A 1,286-sentence Tatoeba harvest with audio on every note, but no teaching order, gaps in the translations, and a rough start; worth using only as a supplement.
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The audio is complete (1,286 of 1,286 notes, though I can't judge how it sounds), and most of the sampled sentences are natural, grammatical Brazilian-leaning Portuguese, such as "Não consigo evitar" and "Preciso de alguém para conversar." The new-word rate does fall from 43% to about 9%, so the deck gets easier as it goes. But it is a harvest, not a course. The first cards are "Graduei-me em biologia," "Os ingleses amam o unicórnio tanto quanto amam o leão," and "Embora ele tenha se desculpado, eu ainda estou furioso," and only 24.5% of opening sentences add one new word or fewer. Rare words (antiquado, unicórnio, faminto) show up before basic ones, and the deck teaches only 657 of the 1,000 most common words. 26.9% of notes have no English, for example #20 "Que faria se eu namorasse sua irmã?" and #967 "Hoje choverá." There are also errors: #5 is a broken sentence ("o vem estudando"), and the closing run glosses "Eu adoro ambos" and "Eu adoro ambas" as "I love you both." There is no grammar explanation and no context beyond the single sentence.
Use this if you already read basic Portuguese and want extra listening and reading input to mine for words, and you can check a translation yourself. Skip it as a first deck or as your main course. A true beginner will hit subjunctives, clitics and obscure nouns on day one with no help, and anyone who needs reliable English glosses will be stuck on the untranslated cards.
Worth it if
- Learners at roughly A2-B1 who want a pile of audio-backed Brazilian-leaning sentences to listen to and read
- People who can tell a bad translation from a good one and don't mind suspending or fixing cards
- Learners who want a supplement to a textbook or course rather than a first deck
- Anyone who wants both Portuguese-to-English and English-to-Portuguese cards from the same sentences
Not for you if
- Complete beginners, since the opening is rare vocabulary and complex grammar with no ramp
- Learners who need the core 1,000 most common words covered (the deck teaches 66% of them)
- Anyone who wants grammar explained or sentences grouped by topic or lesson
- Learners targeting European Portuguese, since the sentences lean Brazilian and the listing mixes both forms ("lhe posso dar," "levantou-se" next to "você" and "ônibus")
- People who need every card to carry a trustworthy English translation
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7Portuguese 5000 words TF21 AnkiWeb ratings 42 Weakour #28
A 5,000-word frequency list with audio on every card, but it opens at rank 554 and its example sentences are long, corpus-scraped and often corrupted, so it is worth using only after you fix the order and accept the sentences' limits.
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The vocabulary list is the strength: the deck teaches 975 of the 1,000 most common Portuguese words and 1,904 of the top 2,000, and every card has word and sentence audio. The order is the first problem. The deck starts at frequency rank 554, so a learner meets 'eleição' and 'apoio' first, while 'em' and 'antes' sit in the last 553 notes. The second problem is the sentences. They are encyclopedic and news-style, around 9 words on average, and much harder than the headword they illustrate (for example 'o declínio mental costuma envolver todas as funções intelectuais'). In the sample, only 11.5% of the opening sentences add at most one new word. Many sentences are visibly damaged: 'a ginástica exige um treino muitointensivo', 'ela ainda estava viva apesar de machucad', 'ele se tornou logo a deitarse na cama'. Nothing teaches grammar, and the cards have no images.
Use it if you are an intermediate reader who already handles Portuguese sentences and wants a ranked word list to fill vocabulary gaps, and you are willing to reposition the cards first. Skip it if you are a true beginner, if you learn from sentences you can fully parse, or if you need a consistent variety. The sentences mix Brazilian and European spellings (atual/actual, econômico/económico, contacto) and the list leaves out common spoken words such as 'pra', 'oi' and 'olá'. Treat the sentences as rough context, not as models of correct Portuguese.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners who want a broad, frequency-ranked vocabulary list and can read long sentences
- Readers of news or encyclopedic Portuguese, since the sentences come from that register
- Learners who like hearing both the headword and a full sentence on each card, and who will check the audio themselves
- Anyone willing to reorder the deck before starting
Not for you if
- Complete beginners, who would meet 'eleição' and 'solução' before 'em' or 'antes' and face sentences full of unknown words
- Learners who want a grammar path or explained structures
- Learners who need clean target-language text, since truncated and fused words appear throughout the sample
- Anyone who needs conversational Portuguese: greetings, slang and everyday spoken words such as 'oi', 'olá' and 'pra' are absent
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8Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese9 AnkiWeb ratings 49 Weakour #18
A 15,038-word Portuguese frequency list with English glosses, useful as a vocabulary reference for the first few thousand words but not a course you can learn the language from.
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The deck's strength is its ordering and coverage. It teaches 92% of the 1,000 and 2,000 most common words on the reference list, and almost all of them appear in the first quarter. Each card adds one headword with a short gloss, so the cards are quick to study. The weaknesses are structural. There are no example sentences (88% of notes are single words or short phrases), no audio, and no images. Nothing links one card to the next or shows a word in use. The opening cards are bare function words, such as 'em = in, on' and 'ser = to be (permanently)', with no context. The gloss style also hurts in places. The author picks English translations for shared etymology, which produces cards like 'the unconfidence, distrust', 'the signing (etm.), teaching' and 'the 'carry far', telpher line (etm.), cable car'. Frequent words such as dos, me, sua, te, aos and às never appear. After roughly the first 30% of the deck, over 80% of new words rank past 5,000 on the list, and the last tenth has entries like 'o odre' (goatskin wine bag) and 'a vivalma'.
Use this deck as a supplement if you already study Portuguese from a course or a textbook and want a frequency-ordered word bank for the first 2,000 to 4,000 words. It also suits readers who like to spot English cognates and can tolerate glosses that sometimes lean on etymology. Do not use it if you want to learn how Portuguese works, hear it, or build listening and reading skills from scratch. It is also a poor fit for a complete beginner, because there is no grammar support and no context for the many function words. The deck's own claim to cover most words you will ever need holds up only if you stop well before the rare tail.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course or textbook and want a frequency-ordered word bank alongside it
- Readers who want to cover roughly the first 2,000 to 4,000 Portuguese words quickly
- English speakers who benefit from cognate hints such as 'considerável' and 'o terapeuta'
- Anyone who wants a list that flags Brazilian (bp) and European (ep) variants
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who need sentences, grammar explanations, or a guided path
- Learners who want audio or pronunciation practice
- Anyone aiming to build listening or speaking fluency from this deck alone
- Learners who dislike multi-synonym cards or glosses chosen for etymology over everyday meaning
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9Portuguese > English – 1000 Nouns9 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weakour #20
A carefully checked list of about 1,045 Portuguese nouns with articles and short English glosses, useful as a supplement for noun vocabulary but not a course you can learn Portuguese from.
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The deck's strength is its accuracy and consistency. Every sampled noun carries its article ("a vez", "o país", "o médico, a médica"), so gender is learned with the word, and feminine forms are added where they differ. The order roughly follows frequency: 97% of the first tenth's new words rank in the top 1,000, and that share falls to about 16% by the seventh tenth. Glosses are short and mostly right. The weaknesses are structural. 92% of notes are single words or short phrases. The only sentence-like card in the sample is the last, "um par de meias / a pair of socks", and there is no audio, no images and no context. Since it is nouns only, it teaches 513 of the 1,000 most common words and none of the verbs, pronouns or function words (que, e, não, com, eu, ir) that make up real sentences. Some glosses are loose or ambiguous, such as "a conta / the bill", "o senhor / the mister" and "o fato / the suit". Some tail words are very rare (gasóleo, ratazanar, cânhamo).
Use it if you already study from a course or phrase book and want a checked, gender-marked noun list to add alongside it, or if you want a quick way to build recognition of common nouns. Do not use it as your main deck, as a way to learn how Portuguese sentences work, or if you need listening practice. Expect European Portuguese spellings ("aspeto", "teto", "expetativa"), which differ from Brazilian forms. Some words may feel unfamiliar if you are targeting Brazil.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course or phrase book and want a supplementary noun list
- Anyone who wants to learn gender through the article from the first exposure
- Learners of European Portuguese who want spelling consistent with that variety
- Beginners to intermediates who want a quick recognition pass over the most common nouns
Not for you if
- Anyone using it as their only study material
- Learners who need example sentences or grammar explanation
- Learners who need listening practice or pronunciation models
- Learners targeting Brazilian Portuguese who would be confused by European spellings and word choices
- Learners who need verbs, pronouns and function words to start building sentences
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10All Portuguese sentences with audio from Tatoeba12 AnkiWeb ratings 64 Mixedour #4
Number 4 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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11Learn Portuguese: 1000 Key Words with Audio & Context 📖🔊7 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weakour #21
A 22-note free sample of a paid 1,000-word deck, sorted alphabetically from 'a', with natural example sentences but no teaching order, so it is not worth studying as a course.
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The sentences are the strongest part. In the sample they read as natural, correct Portuguese: 'Ele ainda não chegou', 'Eu acho que deixei minhas chaves em casa', 'Devemos considerar uma alternativa ao carro'. Every note has word and sentence audio except the last one, though I can't judge how the recordings sound. The ordering is the main problem. The cards run alphabetically, so 'agora' and 'ainda' sit beside 'actividade', 'agricultor' and 'abandono', and a 'fluente' sentence appears while the learner knows about 49 words. No sentence in the sample adds one new word at most. Most add four to eight, because each example is built around its own topic rather than around what you already know. Part of Speech and Gender are empty on every note, and no grammar is taught. A shared-deck description is selling the full version, and a promo footer is in the card template. The 22 notes are an advertisement more than a usable deck.
Worth it if
- Heavily Brazilian-leaning learners at roughly A2-B1 who want to see how a Portuguese word sounds and sits in a full sentence, and who will pick words from this list themselves
- Someone deciding whether to buy the full deck, who wants to check the sentence style and card layout first
- Learners who already read simple Portuguese and can absorb four to eight unfamiliar words in a sentence without stalling
Not for you if
- True beginners, who get an alphabetical list of mixed difficulty rather than a path from the basics
- Anyone who wants frequency-ordered vocabulary or a structured grammar progression
- Learners of European Portuguese, since the example sentences use Brazilian spellings and phrasing ('atividades', 'acadêmica', 'você') even where the headword is spelled the European way
- Learners who want a finished product rather than a sample with promotional links in the template
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12Master 2000 Portuguese Words & Sentences with Audio 🇧🇷📘6 AnkiWeb ratings 47 Weakour #23
This is a 22-note free sample of a paid Portuguese 2,000-word deck, with an alphabetical order, no i+1 steps, and thin grammar support, so it is not worth studying as a course.
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The sample has real strengths: nearly every note has word and sentence audio, the Portuguese sentences and English translations in the sample read as correct and natural, and cards like 'Ele ainda não chegou.' and 'Eu acredito em você.' are everyday lines you could use. The structure is the problem. Notes run alphabetically through words starting with 'a', so 'agora' sits next to 'agricultor' and 'ambição'. The measurements show 0% of sentences adding at most one new word, and 'Alguém bateu na porta, mas não sei quem é.' brings six new words on a card meant to teach one. Core words such as e, um, como, muito and fazer never appear in the sample, the Part of Speech and Gender fields are empty, and the card back carries a fixed advertising footer and a strikethrough headword. The deck is also a teaser for a paid product, so the sample cannot show what the full deck does.
This suits a learner who already reads basic Portuguese, wants example sentences with audio for words they have met, and can tolerate alphabetical order. It does not suit a true beginner, because every sentence stacks several unknown words on one headword, and it does not suit anyone who wants a graded path through grammar. Treat it as a preview of the seller's style. Judge the full deck on its own order and sentences before paying, since this sample cannot show whether the later notes fix any of the above.
Worth it if
- Learners at roughly A2-B1 who want vocabulary review with a sentence and audio on every card
- Anyone sampling the seller's style before deciding whether to buy the full deck
- Learners who want Brazilian-sounding everyday sentences such as 'Por favor, abra a janela.'
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners, who meet 4 to 9 new words in each sentence from the first card
- Learners who want frequency-ordered study, since the order is alphabetical and common words like 'e', 'um' and 'muito' are missing from the sample
- Anyone who wants grammar explained or introduced in steps
- Learners who want a European Portuguese deck, since the sentences are Brazilian even where the headword is European ('actividade', 'académico')
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135000 most common Portuguese words6 AnkiWeb ratings 47 Weakour #24
A 5,182-note frequency vocabulary list with an audio file on nearly every note and pictures on 43%, useful as a word-recognition drill and not as a way to learn Portuguese by itself.
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The deck does one thing well: it gives you a word, an English gloss and a recording, tested in both directions (cards like "quanto?" / "how much?" and "o grupo" / "group"). Audio is on all but 5 notes, though the description says it is generated with a text-to-speech plugin, so check a few cards by ear. The order follows a frequency dictionary only roughly. 61% of the first tenth's new words come from the top 1,000, but 20 of the top 100 words never appear, and several very common ones (você, pensar, chamar, a mulher, conhecer) sit in the last 15 notes. Of the top 40 words on the list, the deck never uses do, da, não, com, ao and querer. It has no example sentences, no grammar explanation and no context: 5,079 of 5,084 measured notes are single words or short phrases. The sample also shows slips: "resistence", "posession", "quinze (f)", and part-of-speech tags that appear on some cards and not others. Later in the deck you get words like "embarcação", "pernambucano (na)" and "coronel" ahead of function words, and the Brazilian-only entries sit uneasily in a deck labeled European Portuguese.
Use it if you already have a textbook, course or reading practice and want a bulk list of word-to-meaning pairs to back it up, ideally at A2-B1 or above. Skip it if you are starting from zero and expect the deck to teach you how Portuguese works, or if you want to see words used in sentences. A beginner who studies it in order will meet words like "aeroporto" and "tribunal" before basic grammar words, and will not learn how any word is used.
Worth it if
- Learners with a separate course or grammar book who want a large word-to-meaning drill alongside it
- Intermediate readers who want to fill gaps in mid-frequency vocabulary (the 2,000-5,000 range)
- People who like hearing each word pronounced and seeing a picture on concrete nouns
- Learners comfortable editing cards to fit their own needs
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who need the very commonest words (do, da, não, com, você) early and reliably
- Anyone who wants example sentences, grammar explanations or dialogues
- Learners who want strictly European Portuguese vocabulary and spelling, since Brazil-only entries are mixed in
- Anyone who needs to trust every gloss without checking, given the typos and loose translations in the sample
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14Portuguese (BR) Verb Conjugation Trainer v.0.95 AnkiWeb ratings 43 Weakour #27
A 1,000-verb Portuguese conjugation drill that works for practicing endings on common verbs you already understand, but it teaches no meanings, has almost no sentences or audio, and carries some wrong forms and one broken template.
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What works is the core drill. Each card shows the tense, the infinitive and a person, such as 'ter / nós', and asks for one bold form, with the full table behind a button. The irregulars in the sample are right: ser, estar, ir, vir, pôr, haver and dar. The early order is sensible: ser, estar, ter, ir, vir, fazer, querer, poder. Only presente and pretérito perfeito are active by default, so you start with about 12 cards per verb instead of 42. What fails is everything around the drill. There is no translation field, so a card never tells you what the verb means. Only about 59 of 1,000 notes have a Portuguese example, all in the first ~100 verbs and hidden behind a 'help' button. The list drifts into obscure verbs: the tail past the first few hundred includes haurir, redarguir, malograr, desengraxar, repulsar and barricar, which are well beyond the stated A2-B2 level. Accuracy is uneven. In the sample, contribuir, evoluir, contrair and extrair all have wrong forms, for example 'contribue' for você, 'evolues' for tu and 'contrao' and 'extraa'. The futuro 'eu' card's back shows 'eles / elas' plus the imperfect form instead of the future 'eu' answer. There are also typos: 'pessao', 'Pretériro' and an 'eu / eu' table row.
Worth it if
- Learners at A2 or above who already know what the common verbs mean and want repetition on endings and irregular stems
- Learners who want to drill presente and pretérito perfeito first and add the other tenses later by unsuspending them
- People comfortable editing a card template and correcting a few forms against a reference conjugator
Not for you if
- Beginners who need meanings, translations or example sentences to learn a verb
- Anyone who wants to hear the verbs or see them used in context
- Learners who want only high-frequency vocabulary, since the back half of the deck is rare verbs
- Learners who cannot check a conjugation themselves and would absorb the wrong forms unnoticed
- Learners who want purely Brazilian forms, since the nós preterite carries European accents (passámos, fiquámos)
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15Portuguese > English – 1000 Verbs5 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weakour #22
A carefully glossed list of 1,060 Portuguese verbs in rough frequency order, useful as a supplement but with no sentences, audio or grammar, so not enough to study from alone.
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The glosses are the strength. In the sample they are short and distinguish near-synonyms: "to be (what; intrinsic)" for ser against "to be (how; temporary)" for estar, "to stay; to be (located); to become" for ficar, and "to order (command), to send" for mandar. The opening is sensible, with ser, ter, estar, poder, fazer, ir, and later verbs like "tossir" and "vidar" sit near the end. Against that, every note is a bare infinitive with an English gloss. There are no example sentences, no conjugations, no grammar notes and no audio, and only 4 notes have an image. You learn what a verb means but never how it is used, which preposition follows it, or how it sounds. The deck also covers only 138 of the 1,000 most common Portuguese words, since it teaches no nouns, function words or adjectives. The back half drifts into rare verbs: 236 words are flagged as rare for their position, such as "amolecer" and "estremecer".
Use this if you already have a beginner course or textbook and want a checked verb list to widen your vocabulary, especially if you want European Portuguese spelling and glosses written by someone who cared about distinctions. Do not use it as your main deck, or if you need to understand and produce sentences, hear the language, or learn conjugation. Absolute beginners will have no scaffolding, and learners aiming at Brazilian Portuguese will hit a few European spellings such as "detetar" and some European choices.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course or grammar book and want a verb vocabulary list to run alongside it
- Intermediate learners who want precise English glosses that separate similar verbs (ser/estar, ficar, mandar)
- People who prefer European Portuguese spelling
- Learners who like short, quick single-word reviews in both directions
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners looking for a first deck to study from alone
- Anyone who wants example sentences or usage context for each verb
- Learners who need audio or pronunciation practice
- People who want to learn conjugation or other grammar from the deck itself
- Learners aiming at Brazilian Portuguese who want matching spelling and vocabulary throughout
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16Portuguese to English Top 1000 Verbs! Aww yeah!!!8 AnkiWeb ratings 35 Poorour #30
A 999-noun Portuguese frequency list with one-word English glosses, no sentences and no audio, useful only as a rough vocabulary checklist.
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The deck does one thing well: it orders nouns by frequency, and the opening cards (1. o ano, 2. o dia, 4. a coisa, 6. o homem, 7. a casa) are the right first nouns. The cards are clean and each noun appears once with no duplicates. Past that, it gives you very little. Every note is a bare word with a one-word gloss and no example sentence, so you never see how a noun is used, what verb or preposition goes with it, or how it sounds. Glosses are sometimes wrong or misleading in the sample: 3. a vez is 'time/occasion', 7. a casa is 'home', 81. a frente is 'forward', 105. a volta is 'around', 250. a pena is 'worth', 651. gosto is 'like', 990. circunstância is 'condition' and 476. sede is 'head office' with no hint that it also means thirst. Gender support fades: the article is on the early cards ('o ano', 'a vez') but gone from card 501 onward ('501. caixa', '505. juiz'). Spelling mixes Brazilian and European/pre-reform forms ('acção', 'arquitectura', 'colecção', 'acto'), and European terms such as 'autarquia' and 'concelho' appear. Capitalization of glosses is random ('Justice', 'University', 'Collection'). Because the list is nouns only, it covers 501 of the 1,000 most common Portuguese words and 878 of the top 2,000 by the measurement. It never teaches 'de', 'que', 'não', 'eu', 'ir' or 'muito', so it cannot be your main course.
Use it as a supplement if you already study from a course or grammar and want a noun checklist to drill, especially the first few hundred entries. Do not use it as a first deck, or as your only deck, or if you want to read, speak or understand Portuguese in context. The second half drifts toward lower-frequency and specialized nouns (new words from the top 1,000 fall from 97% in the first tenth to 9% in the last), and because the glosses are unreliable and context-free you would need to check many entries against a dictionary.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course or grammar and want a supplementary noun checklist
- People who want a quick frequency-ordered pass through core Portuguese nouns, mainly the first 300 or so
- Learners who will check ambiguous glosses against a dictionary as they go
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need verbs, pronouns, prepositions and sentence patterns first
- Anyone who wants to learn pronunciation, since there is no audio
- Learners who need to see words in sentences or learn which gender or article goes with each noun after the first few hundred
- Learners who want a consistent Brazilian or European Portuguese standard
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17Top 500 Portuguese Verbs + Sound + Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)4 AnkiWeb ratings 37 Poorour #29
A 500-verb Portuguese infinitive list with audio and IPA on every card, useful as a pronunciation drill but not as a way to learn the language.
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The deck is clean and accurate in the sample. Every note has audio (500 of 500, 499 distinct files) and Brazilian-style IPA such as ʁezɔwvˈeʁ for resolver, and I found no wrong glosses. The vocabulary is mostly sound, with about 90% or more of the new words in each tenth inside the list's top 5,000. The weakness is everything around the word. There are no example sentences, no conjugations and no grammar notes, and the order ignores frequency. Verbs are grouped by their English gloss, so "to move" runs from deslocar to avançar to afastar, and "to exist, to exhibit, to exercise, to execute, to exclaim" sit together. Rare verbs like sacudir (#27) and salientar (#9) come in the first 30 cards, while vir (#349) and ouvir (#206) come much later. Because it is verbs only, it teaches 12% of the 1,000 most common words, so it cannot serve as a general vocabulary base.
Use it if you already study Portuguese from a course or textbook and want a supplement for verb recognition and Brazilian pronunciation. It works best when you add your own sentences or conjugations as you go. Do not use it as your main deck, and do not start here as a beginner. Nothing on the cards shows how a verb is used, how it conjugates, or which of its meanings you will meet most often. If you study European Portuguese, expect a mismatch: the IPA is Brazilian, and some spellings are European (reflectir, registar).
Worth it if
- Learners with a course or textbook who want a verb-recognition and pronunciation supplement
- Learners of Brazilian Portuguese who want audio plus IPA for each infinitive
- Intermediate learners who can already build sentences and want a checklist of common verbs
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need a progression from everyday words to simple sentences
- Anyone who wants to learn how verbs are used or conjugated
- Learners of European Portuguese, since the IPA and audio lean Brazilian
- Learners looking for one deck to carry their general vocabulary
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18Portuguese Sentences with Audio (Listening Comprehension)4 AnkiWeb ratings 49 Weakour #17
A 1,286-sentence listening deck with audio on every card, useful as a supplement for an intermediate learner but not as a course to study in order.
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The deck delivers what its description promises: every card plays a recording, and the back shows the Portuguese text and an English translation. The new-word rate falls from 43.6% in the first tenth to about 9-11% in the last three, so the later cards are easy to follow. The opening is the weak spot. Card 1 introduces 5 of 5 new words and card 2 introduces 5 of 7. Card 12 ('Os ingleses amam o unicórnio...') and card 17 ('faminto') bring in rare words, and only 21.4% of the sentences in that first tenth add one new word or fewer. The sentences are scraped from a corpus with no grammar order or explanations, so the opening mixes the subjunctive, mesoclisis ('Diga-lhes para me ligarem...') and relative clauses. Some translations are loose or wrong. Cards 971 and 972 ('Hoje choverá.' and 'Hoje chove.') share the English 'Today it will rain.' Cards 1277, 1279 and 1280 all read 'I love you both' for different Portuguese sentences. Card 9 has a garbled Portuguese sentence ('Isso porque o vem estudando'). Vocabulary coverage is thin: 656 of the top 1,000 words and 986 of the top 2,000.
Use this if you can already read simple Portuguese and want a large bank of short, native-recorded sentences to train your ear, and you can tolerate occasional errors. It is a poor first deck for a true beginner, who will meet rare words and complex grammar from card 1. It also won't suit anyone who needs a taught progression or a pure European or Brazilian norm, since the sentences mix both ('Fá-lo-ei' alongside 'você'). Listen to a few cards before committing, because the measurements cannot say how the recordings sound.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners (roughly A2 and up) who want listening practice with a text and translation check on the back
- People who already study from a course and want extra audio sentences on common words (the top 100 words are 99% covered)
- Learners comfortable editing a deck and skipping or suspending cards they don't trust
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners, since the first 30 cards include 'unicórnio', 'faminto' and 'antiquado' alongside subjunctive and mesoclisis
- Learners who want a grammar syllabus or any explanation of why a sentence is built the way it is
- Anyone who needs consistent European or consistent Brazilian Portuguese
- Learners who want reading or production practice out of the box, since the front shows only audio
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19Pimsleur Portuguese (Brazilian)7 AnkiWeb ratings 68 Mixedour #1
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20Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese - NEW3 AnkiWeb ratings 51 Weakour #15
A 15,738-note Portuguese frequency dictionary with accurate word-level glosses and no sentences, audio, or images; worth using as a vocabulary reference or supplement, not as a main course.
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Verdict
The deck's strength is its ordering and accuracy. It opens with ser, de, o, em, e, que, and the sample shows the core vocabulary arriving early: 94% of the top 2,000 words are taught, almost all in the first quarter. Headwords carry articles, gender, plurals and Brazilian/European tags such as "o carro autônomo (bp), o carro autónomo (ep)", and I found no wrong translations in the sample. The weakness is that everything is an isolated word. There are no example sentences, no audio, no images, and no grammar sequence. Function words get long multi-sense glosses, like #10 "a" with three numbered senses, and you have no context to tell them apart. Past roughly the first quarter the new words are almost all outside the top 5,000. The sample shows rare items like "o bidão (e), o jerrican (e), o jerrycan (e)", "setecentista", and several Harry Potter titles at the end.
Use it if you already have a course or graded reader and want a large, ordered vocabulary list to work through, especially the first 3,000 to 4,000 notes. Do not use it if you want to learn to understand or produce sentences, hear the language, or follow a structured path from beginner to fluent. Expect to stop well before the end: the last third is mostly specialized or cognate-heavy vocabulary that you will rarely meet.
Worth it if
- Learners who already study with a course, tutor, or reading and want a frequency-ordered vocabulary backbone
- Readers who like to learn from English-Portuguese cognates, since the glosses deliberately lean on shared etymology ("(etm.)" tags)
- People who need to see Brazilian versus European spelling and word choice side by side, as in "a gênese (bp), a génese (ep)"
- Intermediate learners using the long tail to look up or fill gaps in less common vocabulary
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who want a guided path with phrases and grammar
- Anyone who wants to learn pronunciation from the cards, since there is no audio
- Learners who need example sentences to see how words are used, such as which sense of "que" or "a" applies
- People who want to finish a deck: the last third is rare vocabulary, proper nouns and book titles
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21Comprehensive Brazilian Portuguese Conjugation (PT-BR)3 AnkiWeb ratings 66 Mixedour #3
Number 3 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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22Portuguese Sentences (1/3)3 AnkiWeb ratings 57 Mixedour #10
Number 10 in our ranking. Part 1 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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23Portuguese Sentences (3/3)3 AnkiWeb ratings 56 Mixedour #11
Part 3 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score.
A very large, frequency-ordered set of Tatoeba Portuguese–English sentence cards that works as a vocabulary-in-context drill for intermediate readers, but has no audio, no grammar structure and uneven sentence quality.
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Verdict
The ordering is the deck's real strength. The new-word rate drops from 9.1% in the first tenth to about 3% by the second tenth, and 96% of sentences add at most one new word. In the file, 997 of the 1,000 most common Portuguese words are taught, and almost all arrive early. Sentences are short (mean 7.2 words) and mostly natural, for example "Meu gato ama camarão." and "Seu segredo estará a salvo comigo." The weaknesses are in the material. The opening is not a beginner start: card 1 is "Eu gosto de regar o jardim." with 6 of 6 words new, and card 2 is a 9-word sentence about memorizing an access code. Nothing teaches grammar, so present, preterite, subjunctive and present perfect forms appear together with no explanation. Later parts drift into rare vocabulary: about three quarters of new words in parts 8-10 rank past 5,000, and the sample shows odd or stilted lines such as "Man spends his life in reasoning on the past...", "Há cinco espécies reconhecidas de quivi..." and "A Gravidade na superfície de Titã é de 0,14 g." In the sample there are also small errors: the English on the last card is cut off ("to some degre"), "Egipcio" is misspelled, and the sentences mix Brazilian and European spellings ("espectáculo", "perdeu-se").
Use it if you already read some Portuguese, roughly A2 or above, and want a large pool of one-line sentences to build recognition vocabulary after a course or grammar book. Skip it if you are a true beginner who needs a gentle start, or if you want listening practice, grammar teaching, connected dialogue or images. Everything beyond reading and recognition you will have to bring from other sources.
Worth it if
- Learners at A2-B2 who can already handle basic grammar and want to widen vocabulary through short sentences
- Readers who want a frequency-ordered path past the first 2,000 words, since the deck covers 97% of the top 2,000
- People who will pair it with a grammar course and treat these cards as vocabulary reinforcement
- Learners who like a single plain recognition card and will add their own audio
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners; the first 30 cards already include words like regar, decorar, implorar and tolerar
- Anyone who wants audio-based study or pronunciation practice, since no card has sound
- Learners who need grammar taught in a planned order with explanations
- Learners aiming for European Portuguese only, because the sentences are mostly Brazilian with occasional European spellings
- People who want connected conversation or story context rather than isolated sentences
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245000 Brazilian Portuguese3 AnkiWeb ratings 45 Weakour #26
A frequency-ordered Brazilian Portuguese word list of 4,616 single-word cards with pictures: a reasonable vocabulary checklist, but a weak deck to learn from because it has no sentences and several wrong glosses.
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Verdict
The deck's best feature is its ordering. It teaches 93% of the 1,000 most common Portuguese words and 97 of the top 100, and most of those arrive early (median first appearance at 2% of the deck for the top 100). Every note has a picture, and 45% have audio. The weak side is the material itself. Every card is a bare word with an English gloss, and the Example Sentence field is empty, so you never see a word used. Glosses are often loose or wrong in the sample: 'ordem' is glossed 'they order', 'ele' is glossed 'it', 'fizesse' is just 'do', 'serem' is 'they be', and 'garuntee' is misspelled. Conjugated and inflected forms (deveríamos, conseguirmos, esqueçam) are scattered with no grammar explanation. The first note ('Fais mau' / 'Bad') is not Portuguese, and the back of the deck fills with names and filler such as 'martha' and 'iorque'. The field is labeled 'Spanish' even though it holds Portuguese.
Use it if you already study from a grammar course or graded reader and want a frequency-ordered list of the first 1,000 to 2,000 words to recognize on sight, with the sentences coming from elsewhere. Do not use it as your main course, to learn how Portuguese works, or to check precise meanings. Past the first couple thousand words, the return drops: new words in the last tenth are only 8% top-1,000 and 21% rarer than rank 5,000 or unlisted, and the level tags give no extra structure beyond the study order.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course or grammar book and want a frequency-ordered vocabulary checklist
- Building recognition of the top 1,000 to 2,000 Brazilian Portuguese words, which the deck covers at 93% and 82%
- People who like picture cues and have a way to look up the verb forms and context elsewhere
- Reading-focused learners who can tolerate glosses that need checking
Not for you if
- Complete beginners who want a self-contained course with sentences and grammar explained
- Anyone who needs to learn how words are used in context or how verbs conjugate
- Learners who rely on exact translations, since several glosses in the sample are wrong or loose
- Learners aiming at European Portuguese, since the list is Brazilian
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25European Portuguese Verb Conjugations100% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 62 Mixedour #6
Number 6 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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26Brazilian Slang100% positive of 3 AnkiWeb ratings 32 Poorour #31
A 19-card list of Brazilian slang with literal English glosses, no example sentences and several spelling errors, so it is a rough word list rather than something to study as it stands.
The five fundamentals · 80%
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Verdict
The expressions are real and some are worth knowing: "E aí?", "Beleza?", "Que saco!", "Encher a cara" and "Cara-de-pau". The Back field is useful because it pairs a literal gloss with the idiomatic meaning, as in "to fill the face (to get drunk)". Against that, nothing is shown in a sentence, and the order follows no principle: greetings, insults, idioms and synonym lists are shuffled together. Several cards stack three to five synonyms on one answer, such as "moleque/piá/guri/pivete/rapa" for "boy". Some Fronts are wrong or garbled: "Matata a aula" (the standard form is "matar aula"), "Pisa na bola", and "pagar o prato", whose own gloss says "pay for the duck" (the idiom is "pagar o pato"). The gloss for "Matata a aula" also describes leaving after arriving rather than simply skipping class. "Galinha" appears twice, on its own and again in "galinha/vaca/cadela". The deck is small and has no audio, images or grammar help, and 2% coverage of the 1,000 most common words shows it is not a vocabulary builder.
Use it if you are already at roughly A2-B1, have heard these expressions in conversation, and want a quick list to recognize them or to start your own cards from. It is also a reasonable seed if you are willing to check each entry and add your own sentences. Skip it if you need a graded course, example sentences, pronunciation, or confidence that every spelling is right. Skip it too if you want slang you can use safely, since the swearing warning on the shared-deck page is accurate and the cards give no register or usage guidance.
Worth it if
- Intermediate learners who want a short checklist of Brazilian slang to recognize
- Someone building a personal slang deck who wants a starting list to verify and expand
- Learners who enjoy the literal-versus-idiomatic glosses ("to fill the face (to get drunk)")
Not for you if
- Beginners who need common vocabulary or a graded progression
- Learners who want example sentences or usage context
- Anyone who needs audio or pronunciation practice
- Learners who need to know which expressions are rude, regional or dated
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27Portuguese-English 2000083% positive of 6 AnkiWeb ratings 50 Weakour #16
A 19,870-card TED transcript sentence deck with a sound vocabulary base and a tidy difficulty curve, but with no grammar sequencing, no audio and a steady trickle of translation errors, so it suits only advanced learners who can spot a bad card.
The five fundamentals · 80%
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Verdict
The deck's strength is volume of real spoken Portuguese. In the measurements, the new-word rate falls from 11.1% to 3.5% by the fourth tenth, 87% of sentences add at most one new word, and 988 of the top 1,000 words on the frequency list appear. Cards like #19863 ('E três coisas surgiam de forma recorrente para cada problema: corrupção, instituições fracas...') show the natural register you would meet in lectures and talks. The weaknesses are the opening, the sourcing and the accuracy. The first cards are dense: #2 is a 21-word sentence with 18 words first seen there, and #1-#30 follow one talk's order with no teaching sequence. The pairs come from volunteer subtitle translations, and the sample shows slips: #25 'Nós fizemos a mesma tarefa' is glossed 'We do the same task', #9943 'centenas de fãs' is glossed 'thousands of fanatical fans', #4087 'Já ouvi o som de uma mosca com dor' is glossed 'Because I've heard a fly in pain', and #12988 keeps a stray '[rotina]' against 'I hope it will be.' There are also fragments like #13961 ('E o paciente comum.') that mean little on their own. There is no audio, no images, no grammar notes, and nothing to show which talk a line comes from. By the late deck about 80% of new words rank past 5,000 on the list, so the later cards lean toward specialist TED vocabulary.
Use this if you already read Portuguese comfortably, want a large pool of talk-style sentences for reading and recall, and can tell when an English gloss is loose or wrong. It works as a supplement to a course or to listening practice. Skip it if you are a true beginner, if you want grammar introduced step by step, or if you want clean, verified pairs. The ear and the speaking side would have to come from elsewhere, and every card asks you to rebuild a long Portuguese sentence from a loose English subtitle, which is hard to self-grade.
Worth it if
- Upper-intermediate to advanced readers (B1-C1) who want thousands of natural, spoken-register sentences
- Learners who already know the high-frequency core and want exposure to TED-style topics like science, design and politics
- Self-studiers who can edit or suspend cards that are wrong, fragmentary or context-dependent
- Learners who pair it with a course or a grammar reference so the grammar gets explained elsewhere
Not for you if
- Beginners: the first card after the opening already throws a 21-word sentence with subjunctive and conditional forms (#2)
- Anyone who wants a designed grammar progression or explanations of tenses, clitics and the personal infinitive
- Learners who need accurate, native-checked translations they can trust without question
- Learners who want pronunciation practice built into the deck
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28Portuguese verbs. Front in English, back in Portuguese75% positive of 8 AnkiWeb ratings 30 Poorour #32
A 138-card English-to-Portuguese verb list taken from Barron's 501, with no sentences, audio or conjugations, so it works as a thin reference and is not worth studying as a main deck.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The cards are clean and the task is clear: an English infinitive on the front and the Portuguese verb on the back, such as "to thank" and "agradecer". Many everyday verbs are correct and useful, including comer, falar, escrever, ajudar and trabalhar. The deck does not teach how verbs are used. No card has a sentence, a conjugation, a preposition or a usage note, and none has audio or an image. The order follows no learning logic. In the sample, nevar ("to snow") is card 9, and acariciar, adoecer and afogar all appear in the first 27 cards. Core verbs come later: fazer is card 87, ser/estar is 110 and trabalhar is the last card. The measurements show 62 of the 1,000 most common Portuguese words taught, which is what you would expect from verbs only. There are also errors in the sample: "repitir" for repetir, "aterrizar" (the Spanish form, not Portuguese), and "accomodate" in an English prompt.
This deck suits someone who already studies Portuguese from a course or textbook and wants a quick infinitive checklist, or who plans to edit it. If you are a beginner, or you want to read, hear or write Portuguese, it will not get you there. Memorizing isolated infinitives does not show you how Portuguese verbs behave. Check every spelling before you commit it to memory.
Worth it if
- Learners who already have a course and want a verb checklist to run through in English-to-Portuguese order
- People willing to edit the deck: fix spellings, drop the rare verbs and add their own example sentences
- Readers using Barron's 501 Portuguese Verbs who want a quick infinitive-recall drill alongside it
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need frequent words and sentences in a sensible order
- Anyone who wants listening practice or pronunciation, since no card has audio
- Learners who need conjugation, reflexive-verb or preposition practice
- Learners who want a complete core vocabulary, since the deck covers verbs only
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29Portuguese deck100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 53 Weakour #13
A 541-card Portuguese picture-and-audio vocabulary deck with solid core words and full audio, but its sentences, grammar tags and card layout are uneven, so use it as a supplement rather than a course.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's strengths are concrete. Almost every note has a photo and a recording, and each card shows IPA for both Portugal and Brazil. The opening covers core words, with 94 of the 100 most common Portuguese words taught early. Words with several meanings get separate cards: contar, negro, fechar and rede each appear twice with different sentences. The weaknesses are in the text. The first card, ser, uses 'ser ou não ser, essa é a questão', and all 6 of its words are new. Começar has a 10-word sentence with 8 new words. Many later examples read like scraped corpus lines or fragments ('governo português', 'Count von Count contou 6 blocos'). Some sentences don't use the headword at all: sobre is illustrated with 'está no topo da caixa'. The sample also shows slips: a stray English 'it' in 'Antes de it, preciso lhe contar uma coisa', 'maça' where the word is maçã, 'voce' without its accent, and wrong tags (muita tagged masculino, muito tagged masculino pronoun). The deck stops at about 900 distinct words, and after the opening it drifts into themed clusters of food, animals and body parts while common words such as vez, então and ninguém never appear. There is no translation field, so the photo has to carry every meaning, which works for maçã or cebola and fails for sobre, ser or entre.
Use this if you are a beginner who can already read Portuguese pronunciation notation, you want to attach sounds and pictures to concrete nouns, and you will treat the sentences as rough illustrations. It suits someone who wants Portugal and Brazil pronunciations side by side. Do not use it as your main route to comprehension, or if you need graded sentences, grammar explanation or a dependable frequency list beyond the first few hundred words. Check any sentence against a dictionary before trusting it, especially in the second half. Also expect to do some housekeeping, since the two note types behave differently on the front and back of the card.
Worth it if
- Beginners who want pictures and audio attached to concrete nouns such as food, animals and body parts
- Learners comparing European and Brazilian pronunciation through the two IPA lines
- Anyone supplementing a course who can check a doubtful sentence against a dictionary
Not for you if
- Learners who need glosses in Spanish or English, because the photo is the only meaning cue and fails for abstract words like sobre, ser and entre
- Anyone who wants graded sentences that add about one new word at a time; only 46% of sentences in the deck meet that bar
- Learners who want grammar taught or a frequency-ordered path to the top 2,000 words, since only 29% of that band is covered
- People who cannot spot errors on their own, such as the stray English 'it' or the 'maça' spelling
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30European Portuguese Irregular Verbs100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 54 Weakour #12
A 65-card audio drill of present-tense forms for about a dozen European Portuguese irregular verbs: accurate and easy to run, but narrow, and only worth studying as a supplement.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck does one job cleanly. Each card is one bare form, such as 'dás' = 'you (inf.) give', and the verbs run in a steady order: eu, tu, ele, nós, eles. That order repeats across dar, dizer, estar, fazer, ouvir, pedir, poder, saber, ser, ter, ver, vir and ir, so the pattern becomes predictable. Every card in the file has a sound file, and the forms and glosses I could check were correct. The weaknesses are real. There is no pronoun, sentence or explanation anywhere, so you never see a form used. The glosses cannot separate ser from estar: 'sou' and 'estou' are both 'I am', and 'é' and 'está' are both 'he/she is'. The order is roughly alphabetical by infinitive, so ser, ter and ir come after dar and dizer, and 'dou' sits alone at the end. There are small errors too: '(p.l)' on 'vêm', and the pre-reform spelling 'vêem' for 'veem'. The deck also stops at the present tense and leaves out common irregulars such as querer.
Worth it if
- A1-A2 learners who have already met these verbs in a course and want to drill the irregular present-tense forms
- People who want to hear European Portuguese pronunciation, as opposed to Brazilian, for each form
- Learners willing to spend a short session editing the cards to add pronouns or sentences
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need words in context, since nothing here shows a verb in a sentence
- Anyone who wants to learn when to use ser versus estar, because the glosses treat them identically
- Learners who want a broad vocabulary or a general first deck: the deck teaches 16 distinct words in all, and the list shows most of the top 40 common words as absent
- Learners who need the other tenses or verbs such as querer, which are not in the deck
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31Portuguese basic until advanced100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 61 Mixedour #8
Number 8 in our ranking. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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32Portuguese Sentences (2/3)100% positive of 2 AnkiWeb ratings 62 Mixedour #7
Number 7 in our ranking. Part 2 of a 3-part deck; each part is ranked on its own score. Its scores and full report are in the top 10 above.
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Specialist decks: analyzed, not ranked
These two decks teach one thing: the IPA sounds of Brazilian and European Portuguese. The analyzer scores a deck as a full language-learning resource, so they lose points on vocabulary, sentences and grammar, which they were never built to teach. Their reports are here for anyone who wants that one focused drill.
1The 55 Sounds of Brazilian Portuguese | IPA Flash Deck10 AnkiWeb ratings 55 Weaknot ranked
Pronunciation: the ipa sounds of brazilian portuguese.
A 55-card Brazilian Portuguese IPA symbol deck with audio and an image on every card; useful as a reference for symbols you already half know, but it has errors and a broken back template that you should fix first.
The five fundamentals · 80%
Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck covers the right ground: consonants, oral vowels, diphthongs, nasal vowels and nasal diphthongs, each with three example words and the target letters marked, such as «ch»uva for /ʃ/ and m«ão» for /ɐ̃ũ/. Most examples are short everyday words. The problems are in the details. In the sample, some prompts show as plain ASCII (/&/ for the tap, /#/ and /%/ for the affricates), so the front is misleading. A few marks are wrong, for example «a»vó under /ɔ/ and q«ua»se under /w/. The nasal groupings are inconsistent: vento and lento sit under /ẽ/, but gente and dente sit under /ẽĩ/, and port«ão» sits under /ɐ̃/ while m«ão» sits under /ɐ̃ũ/. Several diphthong cards share the same generic name ("Forward Moving Vowel", "Back Moving Vowel"), so the name does not tell them apart. The back template renders only the Phonetic Name field, which holds audio and an image, so the names and example words in the other field are not displayed. The order also works against a beginner: /s̪/, /z̪/ and the tap come first, while the plain /m p b f v n t d/ come last. Audio and images are present on all 55 cards, but this analysis cannot judge their quality.
Use it if you already know the basics of reading IPA and want a quick drill on the Brazilian Portuguese sound inventory, or if you are willing to spend an hour fixing the template and symbols. Do not treat it as your only source on pronunciation. It has no sentences, no explanation of when a sound occurs, and no vocabulary or grammar teaching, so it will not carry a true beginner past the symbols themselves.
Worth it if
- Learners who already read IPA and want a symbol-to-sound drill for Brazilian Portuguese
- Students who will check the cards against a pronunciation guide and correct them as they go
- Anyone preparing to study Portuguese vocabulary who wants an inventory of the sounds first
- Users comfortable editing note fields and card templates in Anki
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who need explanations of how Portuguese spelling maps to sound
- Learners who want vocabulary, sentences or grammar from the same deck
- Anyone studying European Portuguese, since the deck states it targets Brazilian speech
- Learners who will trust every symbol and example without checking, given the errors in the sample
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2The 54 Sounds of European Portuguese | IPA Flash Deck4 AnkiWeb ratings 48 Weaknot ranked
Pronunciation: the ipa sounds of european portuguese.
A 52-card European Portuguese IPA sound deck with audio and an image on every card, but the order is backwards for a beginner and several example words are wrong, so use it as a reference, not a first course.
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Nice-to-haves · 20%
Verdict
The deck's best feature is its coverage: every card pairs one IPA symbol with three example words, a sound-class label such as "Voiced Bilabial Stop", an audio file and an image. Most examples are everyday words that fit an A1 learner, like «p»ai, «n»ão and «b»ebo. The problems are in order and accuracy. The first cards are the hardest ones: the sequence opens with /oi/, /ɔi/, /ui/ and the nasal diphthongs, and saves /i/, /u/, /a/ and /e/ for the last dozen cards. In the sample, some pairings are off. /ɛu/ lists s«eu»s, which has a closed /e/. /e/ lists «é» and f«é», which are open /ɛ/. /ɫ/ lists e«l»e, where the l is not final. Some cards use non-IPA placeholders: /t*/, /&/ and /#/. A few highlights land on the wrong letters, such as «p»essoa under /s/. Some examples are rare words with no gloss, such as corroer, flautar and jejum. The card also asks "What sound does this symbol represent?" but the answer is a category name, not the sound.
This suits a learner who already has some Portuguese and wants a rough way to practice linking IPA symbols with spellings and audio, and who can check the questionable cards against a reliable pronunciation reference. It is a poor fit for a true beginner who will trust every card, or for anyone who wants vocabulary, sentences or grammar. The deck has none of those, and the 7% coverage of the top 1,000 words is incidental. Check the cards listed above before you rely on them, and play the audio yourself, because the measurements only show that audio exists, not that it is good.
Worth it if
- Learners with some Portuguese who want to practice linking IPA symbols to spellings and audio
- Someone who will check the questionable cards against a reliable pronunciation reference
- Use as a supplement alongside a course that teaches European Portuguese pronunciation
Not for you if
- Absolute beginners who will trust every card without checking
- Anyone looking for vocabulary, sentences or grammar practice
- Learners who want a graded path from easy sounds to hard ones
- Brazilian Portuguese learners, since the deck covers European Portuguese sounds
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How we picked and scored the decks
We searched AnkiWeb for “portuguese” on November 8, 2026 and went down the results in the order AnkiWeb lists them. A deck made the list if an English speaker can learn Portuguese with it. That includes decks written entirely in Portuguese, which suit advanced learners and are marked Portuguese only. It rules out decks for speakers of other languages and decks that teach English. The first 30 that qualified are on this page. When a deck comes in parts, we analyzed and ranked every part on its own score, since a series split by level (A1, A2, B1) can be strong where a learner past part 1 would start. Each part's card shows how the other parts scored. Decks that train a single skill, like pronunciation or numbers, are analyzed in their own section and not ranked.
Each deck was scored once with Anki Deck Analyzer 1.8.2 (claude-sonnet-5-5, effort high, the same settings for every deck), from the file as downloaded, with the deck's AnkiWeb description passed along. The analyzer measures what can be counted (the progression curve, vocabulary against a frequency list, audio and image coverage) and has Claude read a fixed sample of about 90 notes for the rest. The score is out of 100: the five fundamentals carry 80% of it, the four nice-to-haves 20%.
27 decks we skipped, and why
- Frases: Inglês x Português - Áudios de nativos.: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Thiago Melo: Inglês x Português - Expressões e Phrasal verbs: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- HSK 1 a 6 - Mandarim > Português do Brasil - (com áudios): teaches Mandarin to Portuguese speakers
- English Sentences for Portuguese Speakers: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Thiago Melo: Textos - Inglês x Português - Áudios de nativos: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Inglês 2: 250 palavras comuns com pronuncias e imagens: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Português - Alemão v2: for German speakers
- BBC English Plus: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Italiano - Português: teaches Italian to Portuguese speakers
- Verbos Irregulares Present-Simple Past (Inglês - Português): teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- New words through sentences - English to Portuguese: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Spanish Portuguese and Italian Native Translations: multilingual deck: Spanish, Portuguese and Italian on one card, not Portuguese-focused
- Frases para Estudo de English: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- 90 mil cards english > portuguese: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Europäisches Portugiesisch (Português europeu - alemão) A2.1: for German speakers
- Japanese Vocabulary JLPT N5 - PT/BR: teaches Japanese to Portuguese speakers
- Basic Phrases- English Portuguese - Inglês Portugues Audio: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Europäisches Portugiesisch (Português europeu - alemão) A2.2: for German speakers
- Phrases in English 90K - English/Portuguese: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Kanji JLPT N5 [PT-BR]: teaches Japanese kanji to Portuguese speakers
- Irregular Verbs with Portuguese Translation: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- English for Portuguese Book O Poder das frases-Avançado: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Palavras em japonês - português | japanese - portuguese: teaches Japanese to Portuguese speakers
- English for Portuguese Book O Poder das frases-Basico: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Tradução reversa 1000 frases de inglês: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
- Chinês - Português: teaches Mandarin to Portuguese speakers
- TV - Serie - Frinds S1E3 - phrases English to Portuguese: teaches English to Portuguese speakers
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