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3 Free Sites for Finding Brazilian Conversation Partners

3 Free Sites for Finding Brazilian Conversation Partners

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As a reader of Street Smart Brazil’s blog you are ahead of most on the path to becoming fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. You’ve chosen to focus on learning Portuguese as it is actually spoken by people in Brazil and you’ve signed up for classes with Luciana~s team in order to improve your colloquial Portuguese.

Speaking with native speakers is invaluable to your learning, but what do you do when class is over and you want to keep practicing Portuguese? If you live in a major city you might be able to find a community of Brazilians that you can interact with, but that’s not an option for everybody. Luckily there are several websites that you can use in order to connect with Brazilian conversation partners.

Here are the top sites for practicing Portuguese with Brazilians.

LiveMocha

Livemocha is the largest social network for language learners. It has a lot of different features, but the main value that you can get from this site is being able to connect with Brazilian conversation partners. Many Brazilians enter this site with the intention of improving their English and/or helping foreigners learn Portuguese. This creates a great opportunity for you to log on and practice your Portuguese.

Once you log into the site and let it know that you’re learning Brazilian Portuguese it will start recommending people for you to befriend. Be a friendly person and send out a few messages to people letting them know that you’re learning Brazilian Portuguese, and want to do a language exchange. After you’ve found some cool people to talk to, exchange Skype information with them and start speaking. Unfortunately there is no advanced search option, so you can’t search for a specific city and make friends before you go there.

Busuu

Busuu is very similar to Livemocha, having a lot of the same features. It too is a social network sight for language learning, with free as well as paid materials to help you learn a language. I personally think that Busuu’s free courses are a little bit better than LIvemocha, but I mostly use the site to find people to talk to.

As far as chatting goes, Busuu works the same as Livemocha. Search for people by language, add them as a friend, send them a message, exchange Skype information and start talking!

Verbling

Verbling is a site with a really cool concept that came out pretty recently. It’s basically Chatroulette for language learning. The way it works is you tell it which language(s) you are learning and which one(s) you speak, and it will connect you with someone who speaks the language you’re learning and wants to learn your language. The idea is to do a language exchange where you switch off between the two languages, and every five minutes it will suggest which language you should speak.

If you want to jump right in and talk to someone in Portuguese, Verbling is definitely the site to use. The only downside is that sometimes it’s hard to find someone online to talk to. The best time to get online is at night when people are done with work and are looking for a social outlet.  Be careful with Verbling because it can get addicting.

Whichever site you use, its important that you incorporate as much speaking practice as you can. When you get to Brazil, all you’re going to be doing is speaking in Portuguese, so you should get used to doing it now. It’s a lot less stressful to begin speaking Portuguese in the comfort of your own home than when you go to Brazil and have a million other things on your mind.

Josh Plotkin is originally from California but now calls Belo Horizonte his home. He runs the site Brazilian Gringo to help others move to Brazil and teach English. 

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  1. João

    Hello call me john, I am learning English and I would like to make friends with a native speaker of English who wanted to learn Portuguese!

    Reply

    • Kesiah

      Hi Joao,
      I’m Kesiah, I want to learn Portuguese and I want to talk to someone so I can remember some of the words. I have studied Portuguese for one year but I can’t remember and I have fluent speaking.

      Reply

    • Moses

      Hello,
      I’m Moses and just started learning portugese. I would likeus to be friends and also partners in language learning.

      Thanks

      Reply

  3. Elias de Andrade

    Hi guys, my name is Elias de Andrade. I’m looking for someone to help me improve my English and in exchange, I can help you to improve your Portuguese. Send me an e-mail

    Reply

  4. Wagner Platero Júnior

    Olá! Tudo bem? I am native brazilian. I am from São Paulo.
    Falo o português do brasil.
    I am not a teacher, but i can help you to speak portuguese. I am learning english. We can help us. Send me an email: wagnerplatero@outlook.com.

    Reply

  10. Philip

    Your recommendations are useful. I work for a language tutoring company, Justlearn. Our platform is useful to find Brazilian conversation teachers.

    Reply

  12. Miriam Mendes

    Hey guys , I’m a native speaker of Portuguese . If you are interested in learning my language I can be your speaking partner .

    Reply

  15. GABRIEL DA SILVA URASHIMA

    Hello, I’m a portuguese native speaker. I looking for a english native speaker and/or spanish to learn. Whatsapp: +55 82 93484285

    Reply

  16. Iva García

    Hello everyone, I’m a Spanish native speaker but I want to learn Português so badly. So if anyone can help me to improve my Português it’d be superb.

    My phone number, you can ad me on WhatsApp: +18293760912

    Please help me.

    Reply

  17. Dener Moura

    Hello American Guys, my name is Dener, and i need a partner to trainning my english, maybe we can learning togheter.
    Its’s a pleasure meet americans,
    this is my email to contact dener.ferraroproducoes@hotmail.com
    or my whatsapp number +5516991338605

    See you later, i will waitng for your.

    Reply

  18. Marquez

    Hello i’Hello, I’m Brazilian, I can help and teach Portuguese. I want to learn English.

    Interested in my email marqbrazil2018

    We can also practice by skypem

    Reply

  19. Guilherme Almeida

    Hi guys, I’m looking for an English language partner to do a language exchange, I’m from Rio de Janiero,
    My WhatsApp +55 21 981571651
    Skype gui1415

    Reply

    • Martin Garza

      I just saw your comment. Do you have any future plans to come to America to learn English? There are some free English classes at the community college for learning English as a second language. I had many Brazilian friends (former roommates) that came to San Diego, California to learn English. Contact me for more information. martza@cox.net

      Reply

  20. Tr. Marita

    Hi. I am an English teacher. Most of my students are from Brazil – Sao Paolo, Rio, Belo Horinzonte and some are from Panama. We do the classes via Skype.
    If you want to learn English, you can contact me Whatapps +639053136918
    Let me tell you about myself. I’ve been teaching English offline and online for more than 7 years. I am a TESOL certified teacher and I have a wide variety of activities for your speaking, reading, listening and writing.

    Reply

  22. richardson

    Hello everyone, I’m from Brazil, I’m 42 old and I’d like to improve my English, if you have some interest in learning Portuguese I’ll teaching you too, thanks.

    My e-mail moura.richardson@gmail.com
    Skype richardsonmoura3
    whats +55 35 9 9706 0973

    Olá a todos, eu sou do Brasil, tenho 42 anos, e gostaria de melhorar meu inglês, se você tem interesse em aprender Português eu posso ensinar você també, obrigado.

    Reply

  23. Philipe

    Olá, alguém ainda está interessado em melhorar seu português? Podemos conversar via whatsapp. +55 91 981524404

    Abraços.

    Reply

  24. Gabriel Ishida

    Hi everyone
    I speak portuguese, a little bit of japanese, a couple of spanish and french. But I can help you foreigners with portuguese.
    If you need to, please add me in facebook
    add me, or I may not see your message.
    it is easier than skype because I never enter there.

    But if I need to quit, dont think you said something bad because I work by myself and sometimes I must to go to building sites, sometimes, suddenly or sometimes I am just in the rush.

    Gabriel Ishida
    https://www.facebook.com/gabriel.noboru.ishida

    Reply

  26. Urška

    Hi there! My name is Urška (23, student) from Slovenia. My biggest wish is to learn brazilian portuguese, so I’d be more than happy to meet someone with whom I could practice grammar, expand my vocabulary and just talk as much as possible to get confident in any conversation. You can also feel free to contact me, if you want to practice english.

    My e-mail adress is: urska.limoncaa@gmail.com

    Reply

    • millan

      Hi Bruna I am interested in learning whilst I could also teach you some english you may have be learning american- english but english from the UK is better lol

      Reply

  28. Guilherme

    Hey There, I’m from Brazil and I’m looking for someone for practicing conversation. I can help with Portuguese and also help you understand native speakers, how we link words, learn slangs and also Brazilian expression that are really important for sounds natural and more friendly of course. Feel free for send me a message on my email bellow, it’ll be a pleasure for me. See ya guys!

    guilherme_morandi@hotmail.com

    Reply

    • Gofaone Mophosho

      hey i would like to practice my portuguese and il be glad to help u with english if thats okay..pleasure

      Reply

  30. Nathan

    Heeey, I’m from Brasil, HELP ME, I neeeed learn English the most fast possible. I can help you with your Portuguese – BR. If you want enter this journey :v
    Contact me “nathanluiz99@live.com”. 

    Reply

  31. Davisom

    Hi, My name is Davisom and I’m from Brazil. I want to improve my English and help somebody to learn Portuguese.

    My skype id: davisom.trevizan

    Reply

    • Teacher Lei

      Good day!
      I would like to know if you are looking for an English teacher. Let me introduce myself.
      I’m teacher Lei and I’m 31 years old. I have a teaching experience working at both online and offline classes, as well as in activities outside of the traditional classroom, I have a diverse background with much to offer. I’ve been teaching English to foreign students for almost 9 years. I used to work in an international school in Xiamen, China as an English and Social studies teacher for 3 years. I can teach TOEIC speaking, grammar, listening, reading, writing and business English. I am also a TESOL certified.I know and I believe that my strong teaching experience and education will make me a highly competitive teacher. For me, studying English is as easy as 123, so what are you waiting for, Let’s have fun while learning the English language.

      Reply

      • Marckenzy jean

        Hi girl .how are ya doing .im marckenzy jean .i can help u to improve your English .could u help me to speak portuguese

        Reply

  33. Jaime

    Hi, i’m in highschool and i’d like to learn portuguese. If someone wants to learn english maybe we could help each other.

    Reply

    • Caio

      Jaime
      can you add me too? I need to improve my English and I’d like help you with Portuguese.
      +5522998942760 whatsapp.

      Reply

      • Liz Perez

        Hi,

        I really want to learn portuguese. I speak both English and Spanish and I’d like to help you learn the language as well.
        My whatsapp is 7542447951

        Reply

  36. Emmily

    Hi there🙋
    I’m from Brazil, and I’m learning english by myself so I need to have someone to talk to and improve my skills.
    Is there anyone who wants to learn/improve and help me ? 😁
    My email address is emmily._silva@hotmail.com
    Thanks in advance 🙆

    Reply

  39. J Júnior Silva

    Hello girls and boys!

    My English is so rusty LOL, and I really need to learn more, so I can teach Portuguese (Brazilian) for you

    Maybe you can help me and I’m going to help you.
    Are you in or out?

    E-mail: jjunnior21@gmail.com
    WhatsApp: +5511987279171

    Come on, let’s do it!
    Happy New Year!

    Reply

  41. walter

    Hey, I am Brazilian and I want to meet some native American people to exchange knowledge
    My whatsapp is +5591989201689

    Reply

  43. Levi

    Hi, I was searching for a place where I could find people who wants to learn portuguese or improve the language. I need to improove my english so I need someone to talk with.
    I’m not a teacher, but I’m a native speaker of (brazlian portuguese)
    So if you can learn or just make friends I’m here!

    Reply

      • Stefany

        Peter, my name is Stefany I’m Brazillian and will love help you with portugues and pratice my english, my wathsapp is 55 11 969694269.

        Reply

    • Bero

      Hi Ana am in Brazil and I want to learn Portugues…. But I can’t learn you English.i forget too much worlds…… Can you help me for that

      Reply

      • selcuk

        hi my name is Selcuk
        I want to learn Portuguese also I can teach you English
        +49 15775710994 this my Whatsapp
        best regards

        Reply

  46. Ronaldo

    Hi everyone, my name is Ronaldo, I’m a brazilian student of the high school, my english is advanced, though it’s not fluent cause I actually never talked to a native, thus I need to practice with someone, if anyone wants to practice portuguese with me please let me know, I’m always checking my email so if you respond this comment wait a little and we can discuss a good way to practice, through skype, through facebook cam etc.

    Reply

  47. Tatá Oliveira

    What’s up people?
    I really want to learn English and I can teach Portuguese.
    We can help each other! Just reply this comment if you interested. Thanks.

    Reply

    • Penny Kenton-Russ

      I am English, I moved to in Sweden to read at the University of Lund in 1974. I’ve worked with English all my working life with my own firm – translating Swedish, Norwegian and Danish to English). My hobby is making birdbaths. Meu filho viva no Brasil em São Paulo com sua esposa e minha neta Isabela (um ano). Eu preciso alguém para conversar. Eu estive em SP 5 vezes. Eu falar um pouco de Português. Eu tem só oportunidade falar português a cada verão no Brasil (quando é inverno aqui)

      Reply

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