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Live events
We learn Portuguese accidentally on purpose in group settings... while crafting, puzzling, knitting, colouring - anything but a textbook!
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Custom stories, games, colouring books, and other tools to enable learning through play.
Visit the shop →Team workshops
Looking for a fun team-building activity for your organisation? We run bespoke corporate sessions for international teams putting down roots in Portugal.
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What it actually looks like
We do everything to learn Portuguese except pick up a textbook!
"After attending an event, I felt like maybe one day I will actually be able to speak Portuguese. I feel so hopeful!"
— EVENT PARTICIPANT, FLOW STATE PORTUGUESE
Made in Lisbon, for everyone putting down roots here.
We want to make space for everyone who wants to learn European Portuguese, especially those who struggle in traditional language learning settings. Our goal is to help immigrants feel more integrated in their new home.
Today we run live events, design bilingual story collections, and build bespoke workshops for international teams.
For individuals
Events & resources
Story nights, conversation clubs, and printable activity packs to keep things going at home.
For companies
Bespoke workshops
Sessions designed around your team's industry, schedule, and integration goals.
Made in Lisbon
Rooted in this city
Our materials, references and event spaces are all proudly local.
MOST RECENT EVENT
Gathering of Gulosos: the sweetest Portuguese class imaginable featuring @puretuga
⚠️ Warning: this class may cause sudden fluency in dessert! The sweetest Portuguese class, co-hosted by Sali Bina, our favourite Portuguese cultural decoder and foodie known on instagram as @puretuga. We consider Sali our patron saint of Portuguese food. When she is not decoding Portuguese culture on the internet, she's hosting Pure Tuga table, a communal gathering of foodies from all walks of life. At this event, we are making bolo de bolacha, Portugal's iconic no-bake biscuit cake, from scratch as a group, while soaking up the vocabulary that comes with it (pun intended — the biscuits get soaked in coffee, you get soaked in Portuguese). Expect kitchen verbs, measuring words, and a good helping of silliness (as is the Portuguese and Play way). Between layers, we'll take a bite-sized tour through Portugal's regional sweets. Yes, we are having dessert for dinner!And all of this will be happening at PARA Lisboa, the most chic and beautiful new venue in Graça. What's on the menu: Bolo de bolacha, built with your own hands Portuguese cooking and baking vocab A whistle-stop tour of regional Portuguese desserts and their backstories Coffee, chat, and a slice to take home for round two Who should come: Anyone learning Portuguese, from "eu não sei nada" to "quase fluente": all levels welcome, no cooking skills necessary. If you can stir, you can learn. Come for the cake. Leave sweeter, wiser, and slightly more Portuguese than when you arrived. About Portuguese and Play Portuguese and Play is the brain and love child of Astrid Lillie, a Portuguese language learner herself. Our goal is to make learning Portuguese more playful and fun, as we believe that this is a way to unlock the virtuous cycle with respect to language learning. We believe in mixed level group classes, acquisition through exposure, diversity and inclusion. Follow us on instagram for updates! @portuguese_and_play Join our whatsapp group for daily chats and practice Or visit our website for more info: portugueseandplay.com