Once you sign-up at Portuguese Pod 101, you’ll get a 7-day free trial, which is great so you have enough time to choose between the three plans that are available. You can also upgrade at any time you want.
The Basic Plan
The Basic Plan is the cheapest and at the moment is only 4 dollars a month. For this price, you’ll have access to every audio or video lesson ever created by Portuguese Pod 101, access to printable lessons, a lesson checklist ( so you can easily stay on track of your work), 100 Portuguese core words and phrases and basic access on a mobile device.The Basic Portuguese Pod 101 Plan is a great way of starting to learn Portuguese and you can always upgrade at a later date to Premium if you feel that would be more suitable.
With the Portuguese Pod Premium Plan though, you’ll have access to the complete learning system and obviously that will help you learn faster. In comparison with the standard/basic Portuguese Pod 101 Plan, the Premium has everything already included with the Basic and much more. There are 100 core words and phrases available on basic while there are 2000 on Premium!
The basic Portuguese Pod plan is great for people just starting to learn Portuguese but if you want some *oomph* in your learning, the Premium is a great plan. The basic plan doesn’t offer many advantages, besides the complete lesson archives, PDF lesson notes and lesson checklist, and it also has less Portuguese core words and phrases than the other plans.
In terms of Premium and Premium+, there is lot that is the same between the two plans. For example, the access to a Portuguese dictionary, which could be very handy. There is also a line-by-line audio transcript of all the Portuguese podcasts. You can also compare your voice to a native Portuguese speaker with the Pronounce and Accent review.
The deluxe version of the Premium Plan of Portuguese Pod (Premium+) has three advantages that the standard Premium one doesn’t have. It’s got a more personalized kind of help and this includes a Professional Assessment. You’ll get a personal assessment by an experienced Portuguese specialist, or a Personalized Plan (just for you!) and how you learn languages.
Let’s say you have an interest in one specific topic, you can learn more vocabulary related to that topic which would be ideal for you. Also the 1-on-1 Instruction is probably the best bonus feature that comes with this plan, having the opportunity to ask questions and ask for help from a real person can be very important when learning a language.
I think that the Premium version of Portuguese Pod is probably the best, given the amount of attention and material that there is. If you want to splurge out or have a discount code, then I’d go for the Premium+.