Definitely one of the best features of learning Portuguese on Portuguese Pod 101 is having the opportunity to easily interact with other students of Portuguese. On every page of every lesson on their website there is a comment section where anyone can ask a question or leave feedback on the lesson.
Besides the fact that you can easily ask a question or express your opinion on the topic of the lesson, other readers and the manager of the page can read your comment and answer to it. This way you can discuss something that you didn’t understand with other students of Portuguese Pod and keep each other motivated.
What I noticed is that you feel free to help others and if you think you have spotted a mistake in the lesson, it’s definitely worth telling the page manager about it. Usually the creators and/or teachers are quick to respond and provide you with a personalized answer. This may be to explain a grammar rule or a particular feature of Portuguese that is included in the lesson. This quick feedback is a great difference between more traditional ways of learning Portuguese from a textbook and the newer, more interactive style of Portuguese Pod 101. Also, you never know, maybe one of your questions will end up the basis of one of their lessons!
There’s also the Portuguese Pod 101 Blog, which has updates on a daily basis.
Several features can be found on the Blog, such as Portuguese Word of the Day, articles or information related to Portuguese culture or the language.
You’ll also have access to a forum where different categories are displayed so you can easily share your requests or suggestions about the lessons or the website. The category “general discussion and help learning Portuguese” is the place to ask if you need the Portuguese Pod 101 community’s help. Feel free to ask anything!
Portuguese Pod 101 has a great community of students that interact among themselves and with lessons creators. Studying alone requires a lot of hard work and dedication and sometimes it’s difficult to keep focused and keep going. Portuguese Pod provides you with the tools to interact with other people in order to keep you motivated and help you to get more confident in learning Portuguese. We are all learners and we all started knowing nothing.