Portuguese Pod 101 is a website where you don’t need to download or install anything. To use it you basically need an Internet connection and an MP3 Player. To read the PDF files that come with the lessons you’ll need a PDF reader which you can get free online if you wanted. To record yourself you’ll need Adobe Flash Player, which is the basic program used to read videos on internet.
In case you don’t have an Internet connection all the time, you can download the MP3 files and listen to them on your phone or any device (like an ipad) with an MP3 Player. This way you can listen to the lessons anywhere at any time. The podcasts you can subscribe to in iTunes so you won’t lose track of any new topic or Portuguese lesson.
You can use the website Portuguese Pod easily without the need of downloading or installing any heavy files or programs because everything is online!
Portuguese Pod 101 also offers applications that can be downloaded on the Appstore (for iphones, ipad etc) or Google play (For Android devices) or the Amazon store for phones and tablets.
The “Innovative Language 101” app offers the same content as the Portuguese Pod 101 website and you can even log in with your website username and password.
Basically you can take the Portuguese Pod Lessons and resources anywhere you go. You’ll even get a 7-day trial to any of their language courses. You can upgrade your access too, anytime.
There are also other tools to make the whole experience of learning Portuguese easier, such as the WordPower Portuguese. This consists of 2000 of the most common words and phrases used on a daily basis.
Besides WordPower there are many others, such as MyWords Portuguese (the word-of-the-day app version), Gengo Flashcards Portuguese (250 practical vocabulary words), the Survival Phrases Portuguese (that will help you with your speaking skills) and the Visual Dictionary (that consists not only on Brazilian Portuguese but also in more 32 Languages).
To summarise, Portuguese Pod 101 can be used on lots of different devices and it’s highly likely that you will have a compatible device.