Learning a language online has benefits but also disadvantages and one of the main disadvantage is that you don’t have anyone to point out the mistakes in your pronunciation. Since you are not learning in a classroom you don’t have a teacher or classmates to talk to, you are basically by yourself and perhaps you worry that the way that you speak the language (in this case, Portuguese) may not be understood by native speakers.
Portuguese Pod 101 has come up with a game-changer for precisely this problem. After each lesson, in the Lessons Materials you can choose the Line-By-Line Audio option. By clicking on the little microphone after the sound icon you’ll be able to listen to a fluent speaker speak a word and then after recording yourself, play both and compare.
The Portuguese Pod line-by-line method makes everything easy but you need to be a good self-learner and push yourself to do better and improve your Portuguese. I believe that this tool is important and perhaps it is superior to learning in a classroom. Since sometimes there’s too many students and you can’t hear yourself speaking and even the teacher could be too busy with other students to focus on your pronunciation. This way you’ll have the responsibility of looking for it yourself and correcting it yourself. You can learn to speak Portuguese at your own pace, not the pace of the slowest/fastest person in the class.
For better results at Portuguese Pod 101, you can also check the Portuguese Basics under “Portuguese Resources” on the site and look up the Portuguese Alphabet and Portuguese Pronunciation. There you’ll find important information to help you go though small details that otherwise would be very time-consuming. Portuguese Pod 101 is a good and rich platform, you just have to be smart and make the most of it. Learning Portuguese can be fun and like anything, the more that you put in, the more that you get out!