A study companion for European Portuguese. Gather words from real life, let them cure in the Larder, and be ready when the moment comes.
Invite-only for now — requests get a code when a spot opens.
Every word you save is a provision. It cures on the shelf, and spaced review brings it back just before you would forget it.
Feed it class notes, PDFs, recordings, whiteboard photos. It pulls out the vocabulary and builds lessons from what you actually study.
Dialogues for the hard parts — phone calls, bureaucracy, the neighbour with strong opinions — plus drills, quizzes, and exam-aware review.
Honestly? It started as a dumb joke — “yard bird,” misheard. Some names are chosen. This one waddled in and refused to leave.
Then the joke turned out to be true. In winter, you feed wild birds lard and seeds — a ball of stored fat that gets them through the cold. That’s also how you learn a language: you don’t master words the moment you meet them. You collect them and keep them somewhere safe until you’re ready. We call that place the Larder.
Lard Bird is its keeper. He is very round because your Larder is very full, and he considers this his finest quality. He can’t fly. He can conjugate.
He’s waiting. He’s very patient. He’s lying about being patient.