Languages / learn from real life

Save a word from a song, a chat or a street sign. Palavra explains it, gives it a voice, and brings it back right before you'd forget it.

Heard in / a fado song02:14

saudade

noun

a deep, bittersweet longing for something absent

“Sinto saudade dos velhos tempos.”

I miss the old days.

→ Added to set 03 · music

01Save the word
02Understand it
03Make it stick
Palavra / one real word at a time01 / introduction
The idea / a word at a time

Palavra is built for that middle part.

Palavra / one real word at a time02 / the idea

How the app works today — not marketing averages.

01 / Capture

3

ways to save a word: type it, say it, or snap a photo of it.

Quick add

a menina tem saudade de casa

3 words found

menina saudade casa
Save 3 words
02 / Understand

1 tap

for meaning, examples, grammar and audio — written by AI at your level.

saudade

a deep, bittersweet longing for something absent

Feminine · plural: saudades

Used with “ter” or “sentir”

“Sinto saudade dos velhos tempos.”

I miss the old days.

03 / Practise

12

kinds of exercise. Each word climbs from recognising it to saying it yourself.

Type the Portuguese for

longing

saudade
áãçéõ
Correct · +12 XP · combo ×4
04 / Remember

90%

target recall. A spaced-repetition schedule (FSRS) brings each word back right before you'd forget it.

Next 7 days

6 due today

Palavra / one real word at a time03 / how it works
Practice / twelve exercises

Every session mixes them for you. Get one wrong and it comes back a few cards later — asked a different way.

01

Flashcards

Flip, recall, rate.

02

Multiple choice

Pick the meaning.

03

Listen & pick

Hear it, find it.

04

Fill the gap

Your own example sentences.

05

Letter tiles

Build the spelling.

06

Type it

Accents forgiven, typos caught.

07

Dictation

Write what you hear.

08

Say it

Speak into the mic.

Streaks, XP and a daily goal

A heatmap of every day you practised, a forecast of what's coming, and the words that keep tripping you up.

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twelve exercises

Palavra / one real word at a time04 / practice
For teachers / tutors & classes

See who has a lesson today, whose homework is waiting, and which words each student keeps missing — then turn them into the next set in one click.

  • Lesson plans with last time's recap
  • Practice homework that hands itself in
  • Messages, files and a shared calendar

Today

Lessons

10:00Ana · 1:1 conversation
18:00B1 evening groupNo plan yet

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