About Olá Hola
A free practice website for children learning Portuguese (as spoken in Portugal) and Spanish (as spoken in Spain).
Who it's forGrades 1 to 5
CostFree to use
AccountsNone, no sign-in
Contact with othersNone, no chat
What it teaches
- Vocabulary: more than 650 everyday words in 57 topics, such as family, food, animals, school, weather and numbers, each with a picture and spoken audio.
- Grammar: pronouns, the verbs ser, estar and ter/tener, regular verbs, present, future and past tenses, questions, and masculine and feminine words (for example dois/duas).
- Listening and speaking: short everyday conversations (at school, at a café, visiting grandparents) and an optional activity where children say words out loud.
- Practice games: matching, spelling, bingo, word search, riddles and similar activities built around the same vocabulary.
It was made by a parent for their own children, with the Portuguese and Spanish checked by native speakers in the family.
Privacy
- No names, emails or contact details are collected. There are no accounts, analytics or tracking.
- Progress stays on the device unless a family turns on the optional family code. Stars, scores and the optional first name typed on the home screen are saved in the browser on that device.
- Family code (optional): a family can choose "Play on another device" to get a code such as SOL-GATO-MAR-42. Game progress (stars, scores, levels and stickers) is then stored on the site's Cloudflare hosting so it can be loaded on another device with the same code. The first name is never stored online, and no email or account is involved. Anyone who has the code can load that progress, so it should be kept within the family. Saved progress is deleted automatically after 400 days without use, and a device can stop saving at any time.
- Spoken audio uses the voices that come with the device or browser. The words being read aloud are the only thing involved.
- Microphone (optional): one activity, "Say it!", uses the microphone only after the child taps the microphone button. The browser's own speech-recognition service (from Apple or Google, depending on the device) turns the spoken word into text so the app can check it. Olá Hola does not record, store or send any audio itself.
- Outside services: the site is hosted on Cloudflare, and the lettering (fonts) is loaded from Google Fonts. Like any website, these services handle the requests needed to load the page.
- Links: the only outside link goes to StarQuest (starquest.paivait.com), a sister site for math and typing practice made the same way.
Last updated November 15, 2026. If anything about how the site works changes, this page will be updated.