European Portuguese Podcasts by Level

Most of what comes up when you search for a Portuguese podcast is Brazilian. These are European Portuguese podcasts only, and every host on the list speaks the Portuguese of Portugal. We opened every page, checked who the hosts are, when the last episode came out and whether a written transcript exists. Where we could not confirm something, the entry says so.

The list runs from slow lessons made for beginners to the shows that people in Portugal listen to on the way to work. Pick the group that matches your level. If it feels too fast, go back one group.

🎧 You do not need an app. Every entry has a link that plays in an ordinary web browser. RTP Play, Antena 1, Antena 2, Público and Renascença all play without an account. Apple Podcasts pages have a play button on every episode. Spotify asks you to sign in for full episodes, so we list it last.

💡 How to learn from a podcast. Listen once without stopping. If there is a transcript, read it, then listen again. Pick one sentence you liked and say it out loud three times.

European Portuguese podcasts for beginners (A1 to A2)

Made for people learning the language. Slow, clear, and most of them come with a transcript. If you are at this level and want lessons rather than listening, our Everyday lessons cover the same ground with exercises.

Practice Portuguese

A2 to B2, with the level on each episode on their website · 8 to 20 minutes · roughly monthly · last episode 25 August 2026

practiceportuguese.com · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Rui, from Portugal, and Joel, a Canadian who lives in Lisbon, have been doing this since 2013. They talk about everyday life in Portugal, such as greetings, the neighbours and music. The episodes we checked were almost all in Portuguese, at the speed of a normal conversation.
• ▶️ Start with: "A Música que Amamos", 8 minutes, marked A2 on their website.
• 📝 Transcript: the audio is free; full transcripts and translations need their paid membership.

Portuguese Lab Podcast

A1 to B2 · 3 to 7 minutes · since 2016 · last episode 21 May 2026

portugueselab.com · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Susana Morais reads a short text, then asks you to repeat and answer. The "Listen & Speak, Beginner" series is nearly all Portuguese, with a few English instructions at the start. The newest series is "Your first guided listening lesson". New episodes are slow to come, but there are about 180 already.
• ▶️ Start with: any episode called "Listen & speak".
• 📝 Transcript: free on the website for the "Listen & speak" episodes, with a line by line translation. For the "Listening practice" episodes it comes by email.

Portuguese With Leo, Beginner Portuguese Podcast

A1 to A2 · 4 to 8 minutes · last episode 1 August 2026

portuguesewithleo.com · Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Leo speaks slowly and only in Portuguese, about Portuguese life: a birthday, Carnaval, Halloween in Portugal. Short enough to listen twice.
• ▶️ Start with: "Um Aniversário em Portugal", 6 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: free in Portuguese and English, once you open a free account at his online school.

Learn European Portuguese A1 to B1 (Sara Durães)

A1 to B1 · 4 to 22 minutes · 30 episodes · last episode 9 October 2026

saraduraes.com · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Short episodes for situations in Portugal: the pharmacy, the train station, meeting the neighbours. Each phrase comes in Portuguese, then in English, then in Portuguese again. Useful if you live here.
• ▶️ Start with: "Na farmácia / At the pharmacy", 4 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: a free transcript booklet, sent by email when you sign up on her website.

Slow Portuguese With Maria

A1 to A2 · mostly 8 to 15 minutes · 62 episodes since 2025 · last episode 3 June 2026

slowportuguesewithmaria.com · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Maria, a teacher from Aveiro, speaks very slowly and clearly about everyday life in Portugal: the café, a cod and cream recipe, sports she has tried. The episode we checked is almost all in Portuguese, with about a minute of English about her newsletter.
• ▶️ Start with: "O Café em Portugal", 12 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: with an English translation, but only for her paid supporters on Buy Me a Coffee.

Portuguesepedia, European Portuguese Listening Practice

A2 to B1, marked on each episode · 2 minutes · every week or two since 2025 · last episode 7 October 2026

portuguesepedia.com · Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: two-minute clips of real European Portuguese, one monologue or one dialogue each, with the level in the title. You can listen to one five times in a row in ten minutes.
• ▶️ Start with: any episode marked A2.
• 📝 Transcript: free on the website, with captions and exercises.

Tradutex Portuguese Lessons

A2 to B1 · 20 to 40 minutes · weekly · over 230 episodes · last episode 11 October 2026

tradutex.pt · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Helena Rocha, from Portugal, has taught Portuguese to foreigners since 2002. Each episode takes one point that learners mix up, such as "Mudar vs Trocar" or "Perguntar ou Pedir". She explains in English, with Portuguese examples; about half of the episode we checked was in English. A reader on Reddit recommended it.
• ▶️ Start with: "Is 'busy' always 'ocupado'?", 22 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: none. Paying supporters on Patreon get a PDF with the main points of each episode.

Storyglot, Short Stories in Portuguese

A1 to B2, marked on each episode · 43 episodes · ended November 2024

storyglot.com · Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: short stories, most of them read three times: at normal speed, then slowly, then at normal speed again. You will understand more on the third listen. It stopped in 2024, but all the stories are still online.
• ▶️ Start with: "A sardinha", 8 minutes, marked A1 to A2.
• 📝 Transcript: free on the website, with translation.

Natural speed, for learners (B1 to B2)

Still made for learners, but spoken at the speed Portuguese people speak. Our Plus stories sit at the same level, read by a native speaker with the text in front of you.

Portuguese With Leo, Intermediate Portuguese Podcast

B1 to B2 · 10 to 40 minutes · over 100 episodes · last episode 27 August 2026

portuguesewithleo.com · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Leo again, at normal speed and only in Portuguese, on Portuguese history, culture and daily life.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 106, "A História da Literatura Portuguesa", 10 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: free on his website, in Portuguese only.

Listen & Learn Portuguese of Portugal (Sílvia)

A2 to B2 · 60 episodes since 2023 · last episode 21 December 2025

Apple Podcasts · withsilvia.com · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Sílvia teaches in Vila do Bispo, in the Algarve, so this is a voice from the south. Portuguese culture and traditions, in Portuguese only after the first episode.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 59, "De onde vem o Português?!", 13 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: free, in Portuguese, for episodes 1 to 59 and most of the extras.

Expressões do Português (Say It In Portuguese)

B1 to B2 · 4 minutes · 161 episodes since 2022 · last episode 8 December 2025

sayitinportuguese.pt · Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Cristina Água-Mel takes one idiom per episode and explains it in Portuguese, such as "ter lata" or "fazer vista grossa". Many episodes are a dialogue with a Brazilian or Spanish speaker, comparing how each language uses the phrase.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 157, "Fazer vista grossa", 3 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: free. The full text of each episode is on their website.

One voice, short and simple (B1 to C1)

Made for Portuguese people, with one person speaking clearly and briefly. The easiest native listening on this page. Two of them are written for children.

Bem Mais Que Uma História

B1 to B2 · 12 minutes · every Wednesday · last episode 9 October 2026

bemmaisqueumahistoria.pt · Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: original stories written for children, in Portuguese from Portugal, read by one narrator with music and sound effects. Their own description says "ages 4 to 99".
• ▶️ Start with: any episode.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

Vitória, Vitória, Vem Aí Uma História

B1 to B2 · 6 to 8 minutes · over 90 episodes since 2022 · last episode 8 October 2026

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Elsa Teixeira's original stories for children, a podcast from the radio station M80. Simple words and clean sentences.
• ▶️ Start with: "A Ilha dos Brinquedos Perdidos", 6 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

No País das Maravilhas

B1 to B2 · 3 to 6 minutes · 135 episodes · ended 31 July 2026

RTP Play

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Sónia Morais Santos on Antena 1 with one piece of good news from somewhere in the world, one voice. It has ended, but every episode is still on RTP Play.
• ▶️ Start with: any episode.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

O Coração ainda bate

B2 to C1 · 5 minutes · weekly · over 260 episodes · last episode 12 October 2026

Apple Podcasts · the written text on Público

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Inês Meneses reads her own pieces about ordinary life: a neighbour, a green door, a school playground. Público prints the text the same day under the same title, so you can read along.
• ▶️ Start with: "A porta verde", 5 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: yes. The full text is on Público's website.

Fadistices

B2 to C1 · 4 to 7 minutes · over 500 episodes · last episode 27 August 2026

Apple Podcasts · Renascença

• 👍 Why we recommend it: José da Câmara tells the story of one fado singer, guitarist or song.
• ▶️ Start with: "Aprender de ouvido", 6 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

90 Segundos de Ciência

B2 to C1 · 90 seconds · every weekday since 2016 · last episode 12 October 2026

RTP Play · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: a Portuguese researcher explains their own project in ninety seconds. Short enough to replay a few times.
• ▶️ Start with: any episode.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

Lições Naturais

B2 to C1 · 6 minutes · 12 episodes · ended May 2025

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Luísa Ferreira Nunes on what nature can teach us: zebras and stress, dragonflies and drones, ants teaching ants.
• ▶️ Start with: "Das libélulas aos drones", 6 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

One voice, longer stories (B2 to C1)

One narrator, a prepared script, and episodes from 9 to 45 minutes.

Tempo ao Tempo

B2 to C1 · 14 to 26 minutes · weekly · over 80 episodes since February 2025 · last episode 8 October 2026

Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: the historian Rui Tavares writes and reads one story from history each week for Expresso: where left and right in politics come from, a Persian embassy at the court of Louis XIV.
• ▶️ Start with: "Como surgiram os conceitos de esquerda e direita na política?", 14 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: not published.

Português Suave

B2 to C1 · 9 to 23 minutes · twice a week · over 180 episodes · last episode 11 October 2026

Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: a podcast about the Portuguese language, made for Portuguese people, on Rádio Observador. The linguist Marco Neves on where words come from, why the north pronounces verbs differently, what "azulejo" and "arigato" have in common.
• ▶️ Start with: "No Norte o passado e presente dos verbos soam igual. Porquê?", 9 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: yes, on each episode's page on Observador. It is made automatically, so expect a few errors.

O Sargento na Cela 7

B2 to C1 · about 40 minutes · 6 episodes · complete

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: a six-part true story from Observador, narrated by the actor Pêpê Rapazote: a Portuguese pilot whose plane came down in Guinea in 1963 and who was held prisoner for seven and a half years. Professional narration with an original soundtrack.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 1 (the feed also carries newer Observador series, so scroll down to it).
• 📝 Transcript: yes, on each episode's page on Observador. It is made automatically, so expect a few errors.

O Encantador de Ricos

B2 to C1 · 6 episodes · complete

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: the same Observador team. Pedro Caldeira, the stockbroker who held the fortunes of the country's rich in the 1980s and lost them. Narrated by the actress São José Correia. By November 2023, Observador reported almost 450,000 listens.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 1 (the feed also carries newer Observador series, so scroll down to it).
• 📝 Transcript: yes, on each episode's page on Observador. It is made automatically, so expect a few errors.

Um Espião no Kremlin

B2 to C1 · 6 episodes · complete

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: another Observador series. How Vladimir Putin built his power through the KGB, told in six parts and narrated by the actor Marco Delgado.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 1 (the feed also carries newer Observador series, so scroll down to it).
• 📝 Transcript: yes, on each episode's page on Observador. It is made automatically, so expect a few errors.

A Vida Breve

C1 · 3 to 8 minutes · every weekday · last episode 12 October 2026

Antena 2

• 👍 Why we recommend it: one poem a day, read by the poet who wrote it and introduced by Luís Caetano. Poetry is the hardest listening in this group.
• ▶️ Start with: any episode.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

Conversation, made for the Portuguese (C1)

Several people talking at normal speed, with jokes and interruptions. Our Portuguese Movies & Series list is good listening at the same speed.

O Homem que Mordeu o Cão

C1 · 10 to 15 minutes · every weekday · on the radio since 1997 · last episode 9 October 2026

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Nuno Markl on Rádio Comercial with odd stories from real life, many of them sent in by listeners. Every weekday and never long.
• ▶️ Start with: today's episode.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

E o Resto é História

C1 · 40 to 65 minutes · weekly · over 380 episodes since 2019 · last episode 13 October 2026

Apple Podcasts · Observador

• 👍 Why we recommend it: the historian Rui Ramos and the columnist João Miguel Tavares on one subject a week: how the Portuguese learned to read, who Marcello Caetano was. Often recommended on r/Portuguese, where one reader praised its clear, careful speech with little slang.
• ▶️ Start with: "Como aprenderam os portugueses a ler e a escrever?", 48 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: yes, on each episode's page on Observador. It is made automatically, so expect a few errors.

Mais Lento do que a Luz

C1 · about 30 minutes · over 90 episodes · last episode 5 October 2026

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: David Marçal and Carlos Fiolhais talk to one Portuguese scientist: the 2026 eclipse, climate change seen from Portugal. Calm, one guest at a time.
• ▶️ Start with: "O eclipse é o máximo, com Máximo Ferreira", 30 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

45 Graus

C1 · an hour or more · every second Wednesday · over 270 episodes · last episode 7 October 2026

45grauspodcast.com · Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: José Maria Pimentel, an economist, in long conversations with experts. It won Podcast of the Year at the Prémios Podes in 2022.
• ▶️ Start with: any episode on a subject you already know something about.
• 📝 Transcript: free automatic transcripts for episodes up to August 2024, under "Transcrições" on their website. None for newer episodes.

Extremamente Desagradável

C1 · 13 to 18 minutes · every weekday · over 1,100 episodes since 2019

Renascença · Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Joana Marques's morning comedy segment on Renascença. Spotify has named it the most listened-to podcast in Portugal every year since 2021. Fast and full of references. Save it for when the rest of this group feels comfortable.
• ▶️ Start with: today's episode.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

Programa Cujo Nome Estamos Legalmente Impedidos de Dizer

C1 · about 50 minutes · weekly · over 500 episodes · last episode 10 October 2026

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: the show everybody still calls Governo Sombra. Ricardo Araújo Pereira, Pedro Mexia and João Miguel Tavares on the week's politics and books, coordinated by Carlos Vaz Marques. Since 2021 under this name and long before it under the old one.
• ▶️ Start with: the short "Livros da semana" episodes, 6 to 8 minutes, before the full ones.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

O Tal Podcast

C1 · 55 to 75 minutes · weekly · over 140 episodes · last episode 8 October 2026

Apple Podcasts

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Georgina Angélica and Paula Cardoso interview guests with ties to Portugal about their own lives, with no script. The speech is fast and connected, like a real conversation. A reader on r/Portuguese recommended it.
• ▶️ Start with: the episode with Elga Fontes, about 55 minutes.
• 📝 Transcript: not confirmed.

isso não se diz

C1 · 40 minutes to an hour · weekly · over 170 episodes since 2023

Apple Podcasts · Spotify

• 👍 Why we recommend it: Bruno Nogueira, mostly on his own at a microphone, sometimes with friends as guests. Recommended on r/Portuguese. The hardest listening on this page, because it is mostly one man talking at full speed. Its publisher marks it explicit, so expect some swearing.
• ▶️ Start with: episode 1.
• 📝 Transcript: none.

Left off the list

• PortuguesePod101, Fala Gringo, Carioca Connection, Língua da Gente, Nerdcast, Café da Manhã. Brazilian Portuguese.
• Coffee Break Portuguese. Mostly a Brazilian teacher, with some European Portuguese, and it ended in 2024.
• Portuguese With Carla. From Portugal and well made, but the podcast stopped in 2018.
• Mia Esmeriz. Her numbered podcast stopped in 2020. New episodes now come rarely and are mostly in English.
• Talk the Streets. A YouTube channel and a course, with no podcast.
• Histórias da História, Um Dia na História, Histórias de Portugal, Portugal com História. Portuguese history podcasts that all stopped between 2021 and 2024.
• Falsos Lentos. A football show made by a betting brand.
• Conexão Criminal. Marked explicit by its publisher, and no new episode since March 2026.
• Gramofone, Admirável Mundo da Ciência, Perguntar Não Ofende. Good shows, but the list already has one very like each of them.

If you know a podcast from Portugal that should be here, please let us know and we will check it.