Intermediate operating system (Portuguese)
B1–B2 Portuguese stalls when recognition outruns production. Fix with denser high-frequency vocabulary, weekly speaking, register control (tu/você and formal mail), and media that steps up — not another A1 restart.
Four-week plateau block
- Density — First 500 + topic decks; invent two work/school sentences daily.
- Output — two short emails or messages; compare openings/closings with a model.
- Media step-up — graded news → one harder short clip; 90-second retell.
- Integration — tutor on this month’s topics only; 120-word opinion with three connectors (porém, então, além disso).
Model plateau email: Olá. Envio o relatório até quinta-feira. Os dados de segunda ainda não chegaram. Serve para você?
Portuguese plateau traps
- Register chaos (chat into workplace mail)
- News too hard → quitting listening
- Spanish calques left uncorrected
- Restarting beginner courses for comfort
Next: C1–C2 path. Tools: First 500 · listening picker · output workshop.
A solid practice day
Finish one denser input, invent three situational sentences, record a retell. Step down difficulty before adding apps. Note whether the bottleneck was vocabulary, frames, or willingness to speak.