Paulista Path Your path from survival to fluency
Structured lectures in Brazilian Portuguese, built for life in São Paulo.
Block 1: Rules, habits & future
Prohibition, social customs, duration, and future plans.
Proibição, obrigatoriedade e impessoalidade
Prohibition, obligation, and impersonal structures
Hábitos e costumes sociais
Social habits and the verb costumar
Duração e eventos de vida
Duration, life events, and verbal periphrases
Futuro e hipóteses
Future tense and hypotheses about the future
Revisão do Bloco 1
Block 1 review — rules, habits, future, and orthography
Block 2: Narration & subjunctive intro
Storytelling, media, imperative, and subjunctive basics.
Narração e conectores
Narration, connectors, and plot summaries
Entretenimento e publicidade
Entertainment, advertising, and ad description
Instruções e imperativo
Instructions and affirmative/negative imperative
Introdução ao presente do subjuntivo
Introduction to the present subjunctive
Revisão do Bloco 2
Block 2 review — narration, media, imperative, and subjunctive
Block 3: Phone, reported speech & disagreement
Calls, indirect style, past tenses, and expressing disagreement.
Telefone e videoconferências
Phone calls, video meetings, and messages
Estilo indireto
Reported speech and relaying messages
Combinando tempos do passado
Combining past tenses in narrative
Causas e consequências
Causes, consequences, and connectors
Sentimentos e desacordo
Feelings, interests, and expressing disagreement
Revisão do Bloco 3
Block 3 review — phone, reported speech, and disagreement
Block 4: Opinions, conditionals & capstone
Objects, superlatives, relative clauses, and B1 review.
Descrever objetos e design
Describing objects, features, and how things work
Superlativos e exclamações
Superlatives, exclamations, and degrees of certainty
Orações relativas
Relative clauses — indicative and subjunctive
Opiniões com subjuntivo
Opinions with subjunctive — injustice, evaluation, and judgment
Condicional e hipóteses
Conditional mood and hypotheses
Revisão do B1
B1 capstone — phonetics, integrated practice, and B2 preview
All CEFR levels
Survival
Navigate basic interactions and establish your presence in São Paulo.
Routine
Handle routine situations and daily exchanges with confidence.
Independence
Live independently and maintain flowing conversations.
Fluency
Professional fluency and complex social nuances.
Mastery
Full cultural immersion and near-native expression.