CIPLE A2 · CAPLE · Celpe-Bras — two tracks

Two Portugueses, two exams. One plan for yours.

The first platform that treats European and Brazilian Portuguese as two distinct exam tracks. Choose yours once and everything follows it — spelling, vocabulary, the voice that reads the listening, the task formats: the CAPLE diplomas and the CIPLE A2 that Portuguese nationality asks for, or the task-based Celpe-Bras. Conjugation drills over 726 verbs come with both.

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Not sure which track is yours? Applying for Portuguese nationality or residence: European, CIPLE A2. Studying or practising in Brazil: Brazilian, Celpe-Bras.

Same sentence, two standards

Portugal	Brasil
Estou a estudar.	Estou estudando.
Chamo-me Ana.	Me chamo Ana.
Apanho o comboio às oito.	Pego o trem às oito.
Tu falas inglês?	Você fala inglês?
o telemóvel	o celular
a receção	a recepção

Every item carries a track. A CIPLE candidate is never served o trem, and a Celpe-Bras candidate is never served o comboio.

Two tracks

Two written standards, two exam systems, no overlap

You sit one of them. From the day you choose, Pois writes, spells and speaks in that one — and shows you the other only to compare.

PT · Portugal

European Portuguese

CAPLE — Universidade de Lisboa

ACESSO A1CIPLE A2DEPLE B1DIPLE B2DAPLE C1DUPLE C2

One diploma per level, pass or fail, valid for life. The verdict is one weighted total against 55%, so a strong reading paper can carry a weaker listening one.

CIPLE A2 — the level Portuguese nationality and permanent residence ask for
DEPLE B1 and DIPLE B2 for Portuguese universities; Escolar versions for teenagers
European voice and spelling — facto, receção, estou a fazer, chamo-me

BR · Brasil

Brazilian Portuguese

Celpe-Bras — INEP, Brazilian Ministry of Education

IntermediárioIntermediário SuperiorAvançadoAvançado Superior

One exam and no multiple choice: four integrated writing tasks from a video, an audio and written texts in a single three-hour block, then a twenty-minute interview. The band is set by the weaker part.

Intermediário Superior — the band most universities and Revalida accept
For doctors revalidating a degree through Revalida, PEC-G and PEC-PG students, and professionals moving to Brazil
Brazilian voice and spelling — fato, recepção, estou fazendo, me chamo

The nationality track

CIPLE A2, for a Portuguese passport

The CIPLE is the most-taken Portuguese exam for a reason: it is the language proof for Portuguese nationality and the level for a permanent residence permit. Pois gives it a track of its own — built for Brazilian, Cape Verdean, Indian, Nepali and Bangladeshi applicants, and for descendants of Sephardic Jews and of Portuguese emigrants.

The vocabulary of the paperwork: AIMA, Finanças, Segurança Social, the centro de saúde, the junta de freguesia
Short notes, forms and personal messages of about 80 words, read against the CAPLE criteria
The paired oral interaction, rehearsed aloud — the part candidates fear most
Timed CIPLE mocks in the real order, scored against the 55% pass mark

Start the CIPLE track What we summarise is a reading of published sources. Confirm your own requirements with the IRN or AIMA before you file.

50Grammar units

8256Words in the deck

2849Questions in the bank

67314Verb forms generated

What's inside

Everything a language demands. Nothing that just fills space.

Passing a Portuguese exam is not a week of cramming: it is keeping thousands of words, dozens of rules and two varieties' worth of traps alive for months, across four skills only one of which is multiple choice — and on Celpe-Bras, none of them.

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Grammar, A1 to C2, in both varieties

From the alphabet to mesoclisis, level by level, with European and Brazilian forms side by side wherever they differ — tu and você, estou a fazer and estou fazendo, chamo-me and me chamo. A1 and A2 explanations carry a gloss in your language; from B1 they are in Portuguese, because by then reading the explanation is the exercise.

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Vocabulary that sticks

Every card carries an example sentence in your track's variety and is scheduled by spaced repetition, so it comes back just before you would have forgotten it: o comboio in Lisbon, o trem in São Paulo.

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Infinite conjugation

726 verbs x 16 tenses x every person — the personal infinitive and the future subjunctive included — produced by a conjugation engine rather than stored, and named the way your track names them: conjuntivo or subjuntivo. The drill leans towards the pairs you keep getting wrong.

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Dictation and listening

Hear the sentence in your track's voice, European or Brazilian, type it, and get it back word by word with the mistakes underlined. Accents count: pôr is not por, and têm is not tem.

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Writing and speaking

CAPLE prompts with the official word ranges and a live count; Celpe-Bras tasks with the genre, the reader and the purpose stated as on the real paper; a countdown for the spoken part.

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The nationality track

The CIPLE A2 is what Portuguese nationality reads. One track trains for it — plus the Portuguese of the paperwork (AIMA, Finanças, Segurança Social, the centro de saúde) and the paired oral interaction.

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False friends, by language and by variety

Esquisito means strange, not exquisite; rapariga is an ordinary word for a girl in Lisbon and an insult in Recife; and a Spanish speaker's *me gusta has no Portuguese twin. Each trap is tagged with the language — or the variety — it catches, so you see yours.

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Progress that points

Accuracy by skill and by topic, a day streak, deck strength, and a gauge against the mark that matters: CAPLE's 55%, or the Celpe-Bras band your practice points to.

The path

Six levels, one staircase

You pick where you are; nothing is locked. Your level only decides what gets highlighted and which new words enter the deck. On the European track each level is a CAPLE diploma; the Celpe-Bras bands sit roughly between B1 and C1.

A1 — First steps

Introduce yourself, order a coffee, read a timetable, choose between ser, estar and ficar, hold a present tense, and get the contractions (no, da, pelo) right. The level of the ACESSO certificate.

A2 — Telling what happened

The everyday pasts, object pronouns and where they go, the progressive, the imperative, ter and haver. The CIPLE — the level Portuguese nationality and permanent residence ask for — and where Portuguese stops being a handful of phrases and becomes a language.

B1 — Arguing and getting things done

Present and future subjunctive, the personal infinitive, reported speech, the contrast between the pasts. The DEPLE, and roughly where Celpe-Bras starts certifying (Intermediário).

B2 — Register and the written argument

Imperfect subjunctive, sequence of tenses, por and para, mesoclisis and register. The DIPLE a Portuguese university asks for, and Celpe-Bras Intermediário Superior — the band Revalida and most Brazilian universities accept.

C1 — Command

Emphatic structures, sentence architecture, word formation — the DAPLE and Celpe-Bras Avançado. The level where you stop translating in your head.

C2 — Mastery

Rhetoric, deliberate style, the literary pluperfect (falara). The DUPLE, Celpe-Bras Avançado Superior, and what teaching, translation and postgraduate study ask for.

Honest notes

What Pois is, and what it is not

Not an exam centre Pois is not affiliated with CAPLE, the Universidade de Lisboa, INEP or Camões, I.P. The mocks reproduce the published formats; the items are our own.

Celpe-Bras has no shortcuts It is task-based from end to end. There is no grammar section to cram for: the practice that counts is writing to a set reader for a set purpose, from sources you watch, hear and read.

AI feedback is a reader, not an examiner It reads against the CAPLE criteria or the Celpe-Bras band descriptors, and it can be wrong. Treat it as a second opinion and give the pieces that matter to a human.

Check your own requirements Nationality, residence, university and Revalida rules change. What we summarise is a reading of published sources on the date shown.

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