Portuguese With Leo

Leo's European Portuguese videos on language, history and culture, mostly in Portuguese.

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What it actually is

The best-known European Portuguese YouTube channel (around 290K subscribers), covering everything from why Portuguese sounds the way it does to interviews with speakers of other Romance languages, with Portuguese subtitles throughout. He also runs separate Beginner and Intermediate Portuguese Podcast series and gives away several ebooks; the B1, B2 and pronunciation courses are paid. YouTube uploads have slowed to every month or two, so treat the channel as a deep archive and the podcasts as the active feed.

What it covers

  • Listening
  • Vocabulary
  • Immersion
  • Pronunciation

How it teaches

  • Comprehensible Input — Acquire a language by understanding lots of messages slightly above your level, rather than by studying rules.

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