The Pois Pois free trial gives you seven days inside our European Portuguese course: we take your card when you sign up, charge nothing for those seven days, and if you cancel (it takes two clicks) before the week is up, you aren't billed. That's the whole arrangement, with nothing hiding behind it. The course you're trying is a structured 163-unit program: 135 units from A1 to B2, a 16-unit CIPLE A2 track and a 12-unit Civics track. In the trial week you can take the adaptive placement test, get three lessons marked answer by answer by Sandra, our AI tutor, and finish a real errand in Portuguese. You know the feeling of forgetting a trial and spotting the charge weeks later, somewhere between the Pingo Doce receipts and the electricity bill. We'd rather you never felt that about us. Here's how the week works and what it costs after.
Your seven days at a glance:
- Day 1: Take the placement test and read the plan it builds for you.
- Days 2 to 4: Do three lessons and send the homework to Sandra for marking.
- Day 5: Type a topic from your own life and let the course build a lesson around it.
- Day 6: Do a real-errand mission, then do the errand for real.
- Day 7: Decide: keep going, switch to the family plan, or cancel in two clicks.
How does the Pois Pois free trial work?
You sign up in the browser on your phone, tablet or laptop. There's nothing to install. We take your card at the start, and nothing is charged for seven days.
If the course isn't for you, cancel in two clicks before the seven days run out and that's the end of it. If you keep going, your plan starts after the trial.
Why take the card up front? Honestly, so the course doesn't stop mid-sentence on day eight. The trade-off is that you need to remember the date, so put it in your phone now, next to the dentist and the IUC reminder.
What about your consumer rights in Portugal?
Portugal's official consumer guidance describes a 14-day right to cancel remote purchases, and says you can still use it even if the service has already started, paying only in proportion to the days you used (gov.pt, Consumer rights in Portugal). Our 21-day refund window on annual plans is our own policy on top of that. Check the official page for the rules that apply to you.
What should you do on day one?
Take the placement test. It's adaptive, so it adjusts as you answer, and at the end it names your gaps and builds a plan. If you can order coffee but freeze at anything with a past tense, it will notice.
Then tell it your goals. The course reorders itself around them. A retiree in Tavira who mostly wants to chat at the market gets a different order of units than a remote worker in Porto aiming for the CIPLE A2.
A phrase to learn today, because you'll use it constantly:
- Estou a aprender português (shtoh ah ah-pren-DEHR poor-too-GAYSH): I'm learning Portuguese.
Say it at the start of any conversation and people tend to slow down and smile. It also tells them you're learning the European kind, because estar a plus an infinitive is how Portugal says "I'm doing something."
What does Sandra actually do with your homework?
Sandra is our AI tutor, not a human teacher. She explains in English, corrects in European Portuguese and marks your homework answer by answer, so you see what went wrong in each sentence instead of getting a single score.
Here's the kind of thing she catches. Say you write:
Eu estou aprendendo português.
That's a Brazilian form. Sandra would point you to the European version:
Estou a aprender português.
Same with introductions. In Brazil you'll hear me chamo; in Portugal the pronoun goes after the verb: Chamo-me Ana (SHAH-moo-muh AH-nuh), my name is Ana.
Aim for three lessons with marked homework by day four. That's enough to tell whether the corrections make sense to you, which is the real question a trial should answer.
Can you do a real errand in Portuguese within a week?
Yes, if you pick a small one. The course includes real-errand missions, and you can also type any topic (your trade, your parish, the paperwork at Finanças) to get a lesson, quiz, game, dialogue or story about it.
Two errands that work well in week one: the café and the senha queue.
At the café
You: Queria um galão, por favor. (keh-REE-uh oong gah-LOWNG, poor fah-VOHR) Server: Mais alguma coisa? (mysh ahl-GOO-muh KOY-zuh) You: Não, obrigado. (nowng, oh-bree-GAH-doo)
A galão is the tall milky coffee in a glass. Ask for a "latte" and you may get exactly what the word means in Italian: milk.
At the Loja do Cidadão
- Onde tiro a senha? (OHN-duh TEE-roo uh SAY-nyuh): Where do I take a ticket?
- Pode repetir, mais devagar? (POH-duh reh-peh-TEER, mysh deh-vah-GAR): Could you repeat that, more slowly?
If you still hear volte amanhã (VOL-tuh ah-mah-NYAH), come back tomorrow, at least you understood it.
How much does Pois Pois cost after the trial?
Here's our Portuguese course pricing, VAT included:
- Individual: €13/month
- Family: €25/month for up to 4 people
- Extra people beyond four: €7/month each
- Annual plans: you pay for 11 months instead of 12, so €143 a year individual or €275 a year family, with a 21-day refund window from the first charge
Every plan includes the full 163 units, the CIPLE A2 and Civics tracks, Sandra, spaced-repetition review, listening and dictation, pronunciation scoring, six two-minute games, real-errand missions and serialized stories. Exam prep isn't sold separately.
How does the family plan work?
Each person gets their own login, placement, level and course, so the teenager isn't stuck on the retiree's units or the other way around. A shared weekly household board shows how everyone is doing. Dinner-table bragging rights are not included but tend to happen anyway.
Why is the course European Portuguese only?
Because you live in Portugal, or are about to, and that's what you'll hear on the 28 tram, at the Finanças counter and at the school gate in Funchal. This is why Pois Pois exists.
Every lesson runs through a Brazilianism linter and a style contract: tu with European endings, estar a plus infinitive, and pronouns after the verb. The audio uses European neural voices at real speed, so you get used to the swallowed vowels before you meet them at the bakery.
If you want to learn European Portuguese online without accidentally picking up a different accent halfway through, this is the point of the whole design.
Why A2 matters for people living in Portugal
A2 Portuguese is more than a nice-to-have. One 2026 guide lists A2 Portuguese among the requirements for permanent residency, and says naturalization requires seven years of residence for EU and CPLP nationals or ten years for others, plus A2 Portuguese, under the law in force since May 2026 (Grow in Portugal, Permanent Residency in Portugal 2026). These rules change, so always check AIMA and official government sources before you apply.
Our 16-unit CIPLE A2 track covers the exam's four task types, timed. It's genuine preparation; it can't promise you a pass.
You're also far from alone in this:
| Figure | Number | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Foreign-citizen residents in Portugal, Dec 31, 2025 | 1,597,539 (14.0% of residents) | Statistics Portugal (INE) |
| Foreign residents in the Algarve | 161,556 (27.9% of the region) | Statistics Portugal (INE) |
| Foreign residents' share, Grande Lisboa | 22.6% | Statistics Portugal (INE) |
| Foreigners' share in Vila do Bispo | 44% | The Portugal News, Oct 8, 2025 |
Recap and a challenge for your week
The short version: card up front, nothing charged for seven days, cancel in two clicks. In that week, take the placement test, get three lessons marked by Sandra and do one real errand.
Your challenge: before day seven, walk into a café and order a galão entirely in Portuguese. Then tell the server Estou a aprender português and see what happens.
If you'd like to try it, start the 7-day trial (your card isn't charged during the trial, and canceling takes two clicks), or set up the family plan so the whole household learns together at €25/month for up to four people.
Pois pois.
The Pois Pois team