The core course keeps its system small on purpose: hours one to twelve and never the 24-hour clock, a past tense for eight verbs and a time word for the rest, hundreds you read off the display. Every one of those is a real piece of Portuguese the course skips because the traveler’s cost/benefit didn’t justify it. Skills are how you buy one back. Each skill extends the system in exactly one direction — a number range, the calendar, the timetable clock, more past — as a self-contained module with the same format as everything else: tap-to-reveal on every item, audio wherever there’s something to hear, and an Anki deck.
Two promises hold for every skill:
- The core is sufficient without it. No lesson or booster ever requires a skill; a skill exists for learners who want the ability, not because the course secretly needs it.
- Skills extend, boosters don’t. Boosters add vocabulary to frames you own and never touch the system. A skill is the one kind of module allowed to teach something structural — and each one names exactly what it adds.
No skills are published yet.