Oi galera!

This site has been live for only a few months now, and people are starting to find out about it. If you’ve just discovered Hacking Portuguese, welcome!

I’ve finished writing the core articles for the site, which are all accessible from the menu above and the list to the right. Now that that’s done, I’ll be making more casual, periodic updates to the site via blog posts like this one. I have several posts ready which will become part of a Portuguese ProTips series, aimed at more advanced students who really want to finesse their command of the language. My goal with these is to try not to reinvent the wheel with grammar lessons that you can find elsewhere, but to address the finer points of usage and register that aren’t usually taught to students. That said, if there’s a specific Portuguese topic you’d like me to address, at any level, please comment, and I’d be happy to respond as best I can.

I realize that right now the content on here is geared more towards speakers at an intermediate-advanced level. Partly this is intentional – there’s already a ton of stuff on the web aimed at beginners, but very little for people who are already conversational. Still, I don’t want to scare off the beginners! My future plans for the site involve rewriting several of the articles to make them more accessible and adding more content at a beginner/low-intermediate level — including a Roadmap that has some ideas on where to start if you are just starting out with Portuguese, how to build a well-rounded study regimen for different resources, etc. For now, the Top 10 Resources page is the best place for a beginner to start.

Also – if you’re a native speaker, and you see something on here that is wrong or could be improved – please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks for dropping by and stay tuned for more Portuguese goodness!