Local Brazilian

Understand today's Brazil.Build a Portuguese habit that lasts.

Read the latest stories from Brazil in Portuguese, with English translations, audio, and exercises to help you practice.

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  • A politician takes a phone call beside a packed football stadium.
  • A Brazilian beef exporter encounters a customs barrier.
  • A calm capybara faces an overdressed riot officer in Brasília.
  • Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro race across a finish line.
  • A chef turns a São Paulo restaurant into a living room with a hammock.
  • The 1994 Brazil squad poses amid a comically crowded press scrum.
  • Two Amazonian theaters pose like celebrities on a red carpet.
  • Brazilian footballers pile into a tiny goal during World Cup training.
  • An elderly man in a straw hat holds popcorn at a Brazilian juice bar while two friends react.
  • Capybaras and a coconut vendor float through returning Amazon floodwater.

Find your Brazil

Start with what interests you.

Choose the topics you enjoy, and we’ll bring you stories from Brazil to practice your Portuguese.

  • Food
  • Sports
  • Nature
  • Technology
  • Culture
  • Your own

These are just a few. Explore more topics, or add your own.

Practice

Turn every article into practice

Practice verbs and gender agreement using sentences from the stories you read. Choose an easier or harder challenge.

Track

See your progress. Keep it growing.

See your weekly activity and accuracy in one place. Track conjugation and noun gender, then revisit earlier mistakes to keep improving.

Local Brazilian’s Progress page showing weekly activity, conjugation and noun-gender accuracy, and all-time reading and practice totals.

why I built this

I wanted Portuguese to bring me closer to my wife, her family, and Brazil.

The tools I tried taught vocabulary, but they rarely helped me understand the conversations, references, and daily life I actually cared about.

That’s why I built Local Brazilian: a way to practice Portuguese through the stories, people, and culture of Brazil.

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A little Brazil, every day

Practice Portuguese with stories you care about.

Choose your topics. Read and listen to stories from Brazil, then practice with exercises based on what you’ve read.

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