Oi! Tudo bem?
Can you understand the sentence above? Well, it's written in Brazilian Portuguese and it's my native language! For those of you who don't know, I'm Brazilian, but I don't live in Brazil. I've been living in Argentina since 2011.
Oh, I forgot to say what the sentence means! "Hi! How are you?"
Anyways, you probably know I am an English teacher as a second language, which means I teach English to people who are learning it as second language and not to native speakers of English.
When you study to become a language teacher, you must study not only all the aspects of the language, but also the methodologies and the techniques to be able to share your knowledge and help your students learn.
As a native speaker of Portuguese I never formally studied to become able to teach it, but I was forced to understand why I say things in a certain way so that I could explain my own language to my husband who is Argentinian.
I had to search Brazilian Portuguese books for foreigners and blogs that explained why I spoke the way I did :-) and I got very curious about my own language, so I decided to teach a few intermediate students of Brazilian Portuguese.
I've taught people from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, the United States and New Zealand and it was great fun! It was a challenge, of course, but one that I deeply enjoyed.
Due to this experience, I decided to create an online video course for people who wish to travel to Brazil and if you want to learn Brazilian Portuguese from a native teacher, try my free mini-course Brazilian Portuguese to Travel. Just click here and fill out the form with your name and email and I'll send you the course via email!
It has 3 video lessons and 3 written activities to practice what you learn from the videos.
Also, check out my lesson on Brazilian Portuguese Pronunciation below, trust me, you want to start from pronunciation!
Hope you like it!
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