Intermediate
417 self-paced lessons: The present subjunctive, the conditional, compound and pluperfect tenses, the personal infinitive, relative clauses, reported speech, the passive, connectors, opinions, formal Portuguese and how Brazilians really talk.
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The Present Subjunctive, Part 1 of 2
Meet the subjunctive mood and say what you want or prefer other people to do, with -e endings for -ar verbs and -a endings for -er/-ir verbs.
The Present Subjunctive, Part 2 of 2
Build the subjunctive of irregular verbs from the eu form (faça, diga, tenha, venha, ponha, veja) and spell chegue, fique and comece correctly.
Pattern Practice: Que Você Fale, Que Eles Comam
Drill the present subjunctive endings in every person, from que eu fale to que eles comam, inside one frame: quero que and prefiro que.
Quero Sair or Quero Que Você Saia?
Choose between the infinitive and que + subjunctive after querer, preferir, pedir and deixar, depending on who does the action.
Contrast Clinic: Fala or Fale?
Tell the indicative from the subjunctive in matching pairs like sei que você fala and quero que você fale.
Dialogue Lab: Preciso Que Você Me Ajude
Roommates in São Paulo split the chores: ask for help with preciso que and quero que, negotiate with prefiro que a gente, and agree with pode deixar.
Error Hunt: The First Subjunctives
Find and fix the five classic mistakes learners make with the first subjunctives: the wrong mood, the wrong vowel, English word order, a needless que and stems built from the infinitive.
Transformations: From Command to Request
Turn blunt commands into requests with quero que and prefiro que plus the subjunctive, change who the request is for, and recognize the softer preferia que você falasse.
Real-World Mission: House Rules
Write a friendly note for a new roommate setting out what you'd like them to do and not do, using the present subjunctive.
Spiral Review: Wanting Things
Mix the present subjunctive with the Elementary past tenses, the near future, object pronouns and reflexive verbs in everyday requests.
Unit 1 review: The Present Subjunctive: Wanting and Asking
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The Present Subjunctive: Wanting and Asking", then a short unit quiz.
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