A simple daily routine (~30-40 min)
~15 minListen - one beginner podcast or video from above (3-pass method). This is the biggest lever.
~10 minFlashcards - the Cartões page. Spaced repetition burns vocab into long-term memory.
~10 minPractice - a round of the Quiz or the Sentence Builder to actively recall and use what you know.
all dayMicro-immersion - phone language set to Portuguese, name objects around the house, narrate your day in your head.
Consistency beats cramming: 30 minutes every day beats 3 hours once a week. And a real conversation once or twice a week (a cheap online tutor on italki or Preply, ~$8-15/hr) is the single biggest accelerator - it makes everything else stick.