Overcome the Intermediate Plateau in 3 months
Reach the B2 Level with a complete course that’ll teach you the Portuguese language and culture through authentic conversations with real people
Portuguese with leo in numbers
Can you relate to this?
You can get by in Portuguese, but you still struggle with nuance and subtle differences in meaning.
You can follow slow, “learner-friendly” Portuguese, but you lose the thread when people speak fast, swallow words, jump between ideas and use colloquial language.
You have the vocabulary, but you still don’t sound natural. Your sentences feel translated, and you’re never quite sure what sounds “right” in European Portuguese.
No matter how much you study, you feel like you're forever a "learner of Portuguese" but not a "speaker of Portuguese".
To overcome the intermediate plateau, you need to hear the language as it is used in real, natural conversations between native speakers.
LIFE IN Portugal
Reach the B2 Level through authentic conversations with real people in Portugal
Real Portuguese in 8 conversations
Follow real conversations with native speakers about life, culture, and everyday topics in Portugal. Every conversation is presented in an interactive video with grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation notes that you can read as you watch
4 Dedicated revision weeks
Every two modules, a full week to consolidate what you've learned through reading, writing, listening and speaking activities
Grammar applied to real life
Grammar lessons where you’ll learn to use grammar as a tool to express yourself naturally, instead of seeing it as a complicated puzzle
80+ exercises & activities
Test your progress with 80+ exercises covering reading, writing, listening, and speaking as you advance through the course
Cultural moments
Each module ends with a mini-documentary about a specific aspect of Portuguese culture, from the Carnation Revolution to work-life balance in Portugal or why the Portuguese love codfish!
ANYTIME ANYWHERE
Follow the lessons on your laptop, tablet or smartphone, and download the video lessons and PDFs to keep learning offline
LIFETIME ACCESS
After enrolling, you have unlimited access to the course, as well as to all future updates and new lessons and exercises
COURSE COMPLETION CERTIFICATE
At the end of the course, you will receive a certificate after taking the final test
What STUDENTS say about MY COURSES
Here’s what students who completed the course have to say about it. Many of them came from my B1 course and decided to take the next step!
I loved the B2 Course for many reasons: it's interesting and fun to learn European Portuguese through dialogues with Leo's family and friends, and through his insightful comments on Portuguese history and culture. The course gave me the confidence to keep studying and reach the level I wanted: B2!
Don't be afraid that it's all online: I always felt involved and "seen" as a student, thanks to the comments we can leave at the end of each module, and in the lessons it feels like Leo is speaking just to you. I recommend it without hesitation to anyone who wants to deepen their European Portuguese and get to know today's Portugal better.
Dave Cole
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
The B2 Course was exactly at my level: I understood almost everything the first time I listened. I already knew the grammar, but only in theory, and the example sentences were very useful to see what it means in practice. The explanations are clear, you feel you're making progress, and the one-week gap between modules is ideal to absorb and review the content.
It's great that the course is almost entirely in Portuguese and, perhaps best of all, the corrections we get in the bonus exercises with Teacher AI. I've already recommended it to several people!
Jorma Larinkari
Finland 🇫🇮
I found the B2 Course challenging and very useful for my goal of becoming fluent in Portuguese. The instructions were clear, the modules were engaging, and I liked being able to work at my own pace. The exercises on the Pluperfect were very useful, and I loved the Thailand video!
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Robert F. Murphy
🇮🇪 Ireland
A course for speaking authentic Portuguese! I really enjoyed the videos of real conversations with Leo's parents and friends. On my travels around Portugal, I was able to talk to many people, who really appreciated hearing me speak their language.
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Roberto Bucci
Italy 🇮🇹
Once again, this course is outstanding! Compared to the B1 Course, it's less of a leisure trip and more of a working trip. The speed at which some native speakers talk, combined with vowel reduction, is a big challenge, but the interviews, the extra content in the Cultural Moments and the full interviews from the Holofote programme are very useful for training your ear. I feel my comprehension is increasing significantly. I also really like the new shadowing format for speeding up my speech.
Jo Brendel
🇩🇪 Jo Brendel
This was the first time I’d taken an online course, and I really enjoyed the experience! The content is very interesting, and the explanations are very detailed and clear. I especially liked that all the topics are about “real-life” subjects. Leo is a great inspiration. Thank you so much for creating such a useful and easy-to-follow resource!
Pedro Rodríguez
🇪🇸 Spain
The grammar lesson on conditional sentences was really useful. It was a challenge to learn, but luckily it makes a lot of sense and Leo did a great job teaching it. I also loved the Thailand vlog!
Pedro Pereira
United States 🇺🇸
Learn as you watch
In this course, you will meet some of my close friends and family members. Each one talks about a topic that touches on culture, everyday life, and what it really means to live in Portugal.
These conversations are the foundation of every lesson. As you watch, interactive notes appear throughout, breaking down sentence structures, grammar concepts, useful vocabulary, and pronunciation in real time.
Why learn through authentic conversations
We learn best when the content is real, interesting, and meaningful. That’s exactly what authentic conversations give you: real voices, real ideas, and real Portuguese spoken the way you’ll actually hear it in Portugal!
You’ll want to keep listening
Real conversations are naturally engaging. You’re not “studying a topic”, you’re following real people, with opinions, stories and personalities, which keeps you engaged and making progress.
Vocabulary sticks because it’s connected to a person
When expressions come from real people, they’re easier to remember and to reuse. You’re not memorizing words; you’re remembering how real people use the language.
The conversation comes first
The conversations are natural and unscripted, which means you learn grammar and vocabulary the way they appear in real speech, not in artificial dialogues
You’ll get ready for real life in Portugal
From Portuguese food culture, to our relationship with money and work, each conversation focuses on a topic people actually discuss in real life.
What’s inside the course
Below is an overview of every module and lesson in this course, so that you know exactly what you're getting! Click on the modules to see the lessons inside
Introductory Module
- Start here: Welcome and a few instructions
- How this course is organized
- How to use the conversation practice BONUS
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Index of Grammar Lessons
- Meet the course creators
Module 1 - Portugal then and now
- Welcome to Module 1
- Dialogue 1 - Dad
- Lesson 1.1 - When to use the Pretérito Perfeito or Imperfeito?
- Lesson 1.2 - The Personal Infinitive
- Lesson 1.3 - The Compound Personal Infinitive
- Module 1 exercises
- Cultural Moment: The Carnation Revolution
- BONUS: Conversation practice 1
- Module 1 Q&A space
Module 2 - Work-life balance in Portugal
- Welcome to Module 2
- Dialogue 2 - Francisco
- Lesson 2.1 - The Gerund in Portuguese
- Lesson 2.2 - The meanings of the verb Ficar
- Module 2 exercises
- Cultural Moment: Portugal on the Culture Map
- BONUS: Conversation practice 2
- Module 2 Q&A space
Revision Week 1
- Welcome to Revision Week 1
- 1. Reading Comprehension
- 2. Written Production
- 3. Listening Comprehension
- 4. Oral Production
- Q&A space
Module 3 - What if you could start over?
- Welcome to Module 3
- Dialogue 3 - Cátia
- Lesson 3.1 - Hypothetical conditional sentences
- Lesson 3.2 - Conditional sentences in the past
- Lesson 3.3 - The Imperfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive
- Module 3 exercises
- Cultural Moment: My life as a digital nomad
- BONUS: Conversation practice 3
- Module 3 Q&A space
Module 4 - Are we (dis)connected? Our relationship with social media
- Welcome to Module 4
- Dialogue 4 - Marcela
- Lesson 4.1 - Differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese
- Lesson 4.2 - Placement of object pronouns
- Lesson 4.3 - Transformations of object pronouns
- Module 4 exercises
- Cultural Moment: The evolution of media in Portugal
- BONUS: Conversation practice 4
- Module 4 Q&A space
Revision Week 2
- Welcome to Revision Week 2
- 1. Reading Comprehension
- 2. Written Production
- 3. Listening Comprehension
- 4. Oral Production
- Q&A space
Module 5 - Where does our money go?
- Welcome to Module 5
- Dialogue 5 - Miguel
- Lesson 5.1 - The Future Subjunctive
- Lesson 5.2 - The Compound Future Subjunctive
- Lesson 5.3 - How to express quantity and intensity
- Module 5 exercises
- Cultural Moment: The housing crisis in Portugal
- BONUS: Conversation practice 5
- Module 5 Q&A space
Module 6 - Climate change: Are we the problem or the solution?
- Welcome to Module 6
- Dialogue 6 - Mom
- Lesson 6.1 - Linking ideas in a speech
- Lesson 6.2 - The Passive Voice
- Module 6 exercises
- Cultural Moment: How we experienced the Iberian Peninsula Blackout
- BONUS: Conversation practice 6
- Module 6 Q&A space
Revision Week 3
- Welcome to Revision Week 3
- 1. Reading Comprehension
- 2. Written Production
- 3. Listening Comprehension
- 4. Oral Production
- Q&A space
Module 7 - We are what we eat: Food in Portugal
- Welcome to Module 7
- Dialogue 7 - Bárbara
- Lesson 7.1 - The many uses of the word “se”
- Lesson 7.2 - Verbal regency (prepositional verbs)
- Lesson 7.3 - Relative Clauses
- Module 7 exercises
- Cultural Moment: Codfish in Portugal
- BONUS: Conversation practice 7
- Module 7 Q&A space
Module 8 - Why even learn Portuguese?
- Welcome to Module 8
- Dialogue 8 - Stefano
- Lesson 8.1 - Inflected and Double Participles
- Lesson 8.2 - How to improve our pronunciation
- Module 8 exercises
- Cultural Moment: 8 idiomatic expressions and their origins
- BONUS: Conversation practice 8
- Module 8 Q&A space
Revision Week 4
- Welcome to Revision Week 4
- 1. Reading Comprehension
- 2. Written Production
- 3. Listening Comprehension
- 4. Oral Production - Give me your opinion
- Q&A space
Module 9 - Exam Preparation
- Welcome to Module 9
- Part 1 - Reading Comprehension
- Part 2 - Written Production
- Part 3 - Listening Comprehension
- Part 4 - Oral Production
- Module 9 Q&A space
Final B2 Level Exam
- B2 Final Exam
- Part 1 - Reading Comprehension
- Part 2 - Written Production
- Part 3 - Listening Comprehension
- Part 4 - Oral Production
- Solutions and Self-Assessment
- Q&A space
Upper intermediate
9+ hours
3-Month Program with 9 modules
8 authentic conversations with native speakers
Interactive videos with grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation notes
Grammar lessons with downloadable PDFs
9+ hours of video lessons
80+ exercises of all kinds
4 dedicated revision weeks to consolidate what you've learned
8 mini-documentaries on Portuguese culture, history and society
8 bonus speaking-practice lessons with Leo's AI voice clone
Exam preparation module
Final exam and Completion Certificate
A Q&A space in every module where Leo answers all your questions
Lifetime access to course materials and future updates
PRACTICE SPEAKING WITH MY AI VOICE CLONE
Created in collaboration with Teacher AI, a platform specialized in AI speaking practice.
A REAL CONVERSATION
In 8 bonus lessons, you’ll answer B2-level questions about your own life, inspired by the dialogue in each module.
SPEAK AS MUCH AS YOU WANT
Each conversation has 7 interactions, and you can restart the conversation as many times as you want, with no Teacher AI account needed.
CORRECTED AND EXPLAINED
Every mistake is marked and corrected in your answer. Hear the corrected sentence in native pronunciation, and get a thorough explanation of each correction.
PRACTICE WITHOUT PRESSURE
The AI doesn’t get tired or judge your mistakes. Translations and grammar explanations are available in 50+ languages.
Olá, sou o leo!
Olá! My name is Leonardo, and I’m your Portuguese teacher! I’ve helped thousands of students learn through my courses, podcasts and YouTube videos, where I explore Portuguese culture and break down complex language concepts into simple explanations.
This course brings together all my experience, offering an engaging blend of language and culture that will help you improve your Portuguese naturally.
What you will experience
After overcoming the intermediate plateau, you'll go from being a “language learner” to being a “language user”.
Effortless comprehension
Follow native conversations, podcasts, and TV with far less effort, even when it’s fast and messy.
Speak with nuance and sound natural
Share opinions, explain your reasoning, and express yourself in Portuguese that feels natural, not translated from your native language
Real connection in Portugal
Make friends more easily, join group conversations, and feel genuinely included in everyday moments: dinners, jokes, small talk, and deeper chats.
A bridge to advanced Portuguese
Build a solid B2-level base that makes the jump to advanced Portuguese feel realistic and achievable
feedback from my B2 STUDENTS
Watch our B2 students share their experiences with A Vida em Portugal, and imagine what your next chapter in Portuguese could look like. Ready to join them?
The B2 Course was exactly what I needed to improve my Portuguese. It was like a key that opened my mind to speaking better!
Pedro Pereira
🇺🇸 United States
As an English teacher myself, I think Leo is an inspiring teacher. The B2 Course gave me much more confidence in my Portuguese, in speaking, writing, listening and reading.
Dave Cole
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
This was my first time using an online course to learn a language, and I really enjoyed it. I learned many things I didn't even know I didn't know.
Pedro Rodríguez
🇪🇸 Spain
I learn Portuguese to keep my brain active. The B2 Course helped me see exactly where my gaps were.
Jorma Larinkari
🇫🇮 Finland
The B2 Course helped me get past a plateau where I was stuck with the language. My favourite part was the interviews, especially the first one with Leo's dad.
Yannick Bernier
🇨🇦 Canada
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone who’s learning Portuguese as a foreign language and wants to reach or solidify the B2 Level — Upper Intermediate
It’s perfect for you if
You have an intermediate level of Portuguese (B1 level) and want to overcome the plateau.
You want to learn Portuguese naturally through exposure to authentic conversations suited to your level.
You’re interested in not just learning the language, but also getting to know Portugal and its culture.
You can understand about 50% of my YouTube videos without subtitles.
It’s not for you if
Your level is too advanced (a solid C1 or above on the CEFR scale).
Your level is too low (if you're at an A2 level, check out my B1 course!)
You don’t want to study at home at your own pace.
You're not willing to study regularly every week.
JOIN THE PROGRAM TODAY!
Reach the B2 Level by following a structured 3-month program!
Join my Upper Intermediate Course and reach the B2 Level in Portuguese. If you're not satisfied within 30 days, I'll refund your money.
Have Any questions?
Find the answers to common questions about the B2 Program.
Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for anyone who wants to overcome the intermediate plateau and reach the B2 level. B2 is where you go from being a language learner to a language speaker: you'll be able to use Portuguese independently and speak confidently with native speakers.
What if I'm not sure whether to take the B1 or B2 course?
You can take the placement test on my website or email me at contact@portuguesewithleo.com, and I'll point you in the right direction. And if you join and it turns out you're on the wrong course, I'll switch you to the right one at no extra cost.
What's the difference between this course and your YouTube videos?
In my YouTube videos, I cover a wide range of topics - from Portuguese Culture and History to pronunciation tips and quick grammar explanations. This course, on the other hand, is a structured 3-month program that is specifically designed to take you step by step through all the grammar structures, useful vocabulary and real-life communication skills you need to reach a B2 level in European Portuguese.
Are the lessons live or pre-recorded?
All video lessons are pre-recorded and include Portuguese subtitles, interactive exercises and an accompanying PDF. You can watch them anytime, as many times as you want, both online and offline!
What happens when I join the course?
You’ll receive a confirmation email with a link to access the course, along with instructions on how to get started. The first module will be available immediately, and new modules will be unlocked weekly. This pacing is intentional, since it gives you enough time to fully absorb each module before moving on.
Can I follow this course offline?
Yes. You can download the video lessons and materials for each module, which means that you don’t need to be connected to the internet to follow the course.
How long do I have access to the course for?
Once you've signed up, you have lifetime access to the course, which means you can revisit the lessons whenever you'd like and benefit from any future updates at no extra cost.
Can I use the course certificate for Portuguese citizenship?
No, the certificate from this course cannot be used for Portuguese citizenship applications. Portugal requires an official A2-level exam called CIPLE (Certificado Inicial de Português Língua Estrangeira), which is issued by CAPLE (Centro de Avaliação de Português Língua Estrangeira).
However, this course follows the same CEFR standards (Common European Framework of Reference) used in official exams, ensuring that you develop your Portuguese in a structured and effective way. By reaching the B2 level, you’ll be well-prepared for the official exam (should you ever decide to take it), and will also gain confidence in real-life conversations and interactions in Portugal.
Why is the price in US dollars and not in other currencies?
The platform I use to host the course, Teachable, does not support automatic currency conversion. Since I have students from all over the world, I had to choose a single currency, and USD is the most practical option as it is the global reserve currency.
Additionally, Teachable only allows PayPal payments for courses priced in USD. If I offered the course in any other currency, PayPal would not be available as a payment method.
What’s the refund policy?
If for any reason you don't like the course, you have 30 days to send me an email at contact@portuguesewithleo.com and I'll issue a full refund, no questions asked
Do you have more questions?
Send us an email at contact@portuguesewithleo.com.
We answer within 24-36 hours.