Estudar Espanhol Online - Espanhol Da Argentina - Descubra O Que Significa Boliche Em Espanhol

Bom domingo a todos!! Esse post vai em português porque é para meus leitores brasileiros.

Acho que todos sabem que eu sou brasileira, mas não moro no Brasil desde 2011, moro em Córdoba, Argentina.

Muitos amigos e amigos de amigos me pedem dicas sobre o que comer, onde ficar e que lugares visitar na Argentina. Eu respondo todas as perguntas com carinho porque amo viajar e sei que as recomendações de uma pessoa que mora no lugar são sempre as melhores.

Pensando nisso, decidi criar uma série de vídeos com dicas sobre a Argentina em geral e sobre o idioma espanhol porque eu realmente acredito que se você fala o idioma do lugar onde você vai visitar, dá pra aproveitar MUITO mais! Eu sei que esse blog é de inglês, mas acho que vocês vão gostar!

Então, eu deixo vocês com o primeiro vídeo dessa série. Espero que gostem! Deixem nos comentários as suas perguntas sobre a Argentina, assim eu posso fazer um vídeo respondendo suas perguntas!

How I Became a Brazilian Portuguese Teacher- How You Can Learn Brazilian Portuguese

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!

Online English Lesson - Leonardo DiCaprio Oscars Speech

After a long long time I decided to blog again! Hurray!

My life has changed a lot, but one thing has not changed, my passion for teaching.

When I turn on my computer and call a student via Skype or Google Hangout all the problems disappear! I am right there with my student at that moment and it enlightens my day to feel that I am being helpful and that my student is learning something through me.

I chose to teach online because it enables geographic flexibility, you see I am Brazilian, but I live in Argentina and I absolutely love to travel. If I were to work in a school or a language course, I would not be able to visit my family in Brazil in May, for example or to accompany my husband to a course he will be attending in the US.

I love what I do and I love the way I can perform it, that's why I believe I am good at my profession. I have my flaws, of course, but I am always aiming to achieve perfection.

Anyways, enough about me! What I really wanted to do today was to share an activity I created for one of my students. It's about the Oscar, more precisely about Leonardo DiCaprio's acceptance speech for his first Oscar.

Here is the activity! If you wish to download it, click here.

A)Today we are going to watch the acceptance speech of Leonardo DiCaprio. Click here to watch it. Then answer the questions below:

1. Who are the ones he thanks?
2. What does he thank Mr Caton-Jones for?
3. What does he thank Mr Scorsesse for?
4. if you won an Oscar, what would your speech be like?

B) Now, click here to simply listen to Dicaprio's speech and complete the gaps on the script below:

Thank you, thank you all so very much. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room. I have to congratulate the other incredible ____________ this year for their unbelievable ___________.

The Revenant was a product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew I got to work alongside.

First off to my brother in this endeavor, Mr Tom Hardy. Tom, your fierce talent __________ can only be surpassed by your friendship _________.

To Mr Alejandro Iñárritu, as the history of cinema unfolds, you have forged your way into history these past two years. What an unbelievable talent you are. Thank you to you and Chivo for creating a transcendent cinematic experience for all of us. Thank you to everybody at Fox and New Regency, in particular Arnon Milchan. You were the champion of this endeavor. My entire team.

I have to thank everyone from the very onset of my career. Mr Caton-Jones for ________ me in my first film. Mr Scorsese for teaching me so much about the cinematic art form. To Mr Rick Yorn, thank you for helping me navigate my way through this industry. And to my parents, none of this would be possible without you. And to my friends, I love you dearly, you know who you are.

And lastly, I just want to say this: Making The Revenant was about man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.

Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.

We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.

I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much.

Por que aulas online (skype)?

Por que aulas de idiomas online (Skype)?

Comecei a dar aulas por skype porque uma aluna minha que, inicialmente tinha aulas em um grupo, faltava muito devido às suas viagens frequentes. Ela se desmotivava e muitas vezes pensou em desistir.
Então sugeri que ela se conectasse ao Skype no horário da aula do seu grupo e participasse da aula de onde estivesse. Foi um experiência muito interessante, tinha 3 alunos presentes na sala de aula e 1 através do computador. Eles interagiam com ela como se estivessem todos em um mesmo lugar.

Andava um pouco cansada e necessitava uma mudança para recarregar minhas energias, então decidi tomar um período sabático e me mudei para Argentina (se transformou em uma mudança permanente) continuei dando aula para alguns alunos do Brasil através do Skype. 

A principio pensava que a única coisa que eu tinha que fazer era seguir usando os livros que usava, eu com o meu livro e o aluno com o seu livro, a câmera e o microfone e algumas ferramentas disponíveis pela internet seriam suficientes para dar uma aula por Skype. Inclusive, nas minhas pesquisas sobre “online teaching” li que alguns professores scanean todo o material disponível em livros e assim adaptam as aulas presencias para o sistema de aulas online

Para mim,  uma aula de idioma online vai muito além do mencionado acima. Eu e os professores na minha empresa utilizamos ferramentas que nos possibilitam interagir com o aluno e com o material utilizado em tempo real.  Atualmente utilizamos Google docs, que são documentos como os do Word, Power Point e Planilhas do Excel criados e armazenados de maneira virtual. Esses documentos permitem uma interação em tempo real com o aluno o que facilita e simplifica o aprendizado online.

Acredito que as aulas online (Skype) são convenientes para o professor e para o aluno porque ambos podem estar em qualquer lugar com conexão a internet, isso evita o stress de deslocamento, economiza tempo e todos ficam mais contentes.
Além disso, permite que pessoas sem acesso a cursos em suas cidades também possam aprender, inclusive com professores nativos.
Pessoas com horários irregulares podem seguir um curso no seu passo porque existe a possibilidade de remarcar as aulas.

Finalmente, tem uma vantagem que é fundamental em comparação com cursos de idiomas em grupo. A quantidade de tempo dedicada exclusivamente ao aluno. Imagina se você está num grupo de 10 alunos com uma aula que dura 1 hora. Quanto tempo você terá da atenção do professor só para você? Quanto tempo terá para desenvolver a sua habilidade da fala?

Se dividirmos os 60 minutos igualmente entre os 10 alunos, você terá 6 minutos. Exatamente, 6 minutos! Você pagou por uma aula de 60 minutos, mas somente terá 6 minutos de atenção individual ou oportunidade para expressar-se nesse idioma que está aprendendo.

Acredito que se você tem pressa em aprender um idioma, as aulas particulares são a solução e se você quiser evitar engarrafamentos e perdas de tempo, as aulas através do Skype podem ser a melhor opção para você. Não custa nada experimentar. A primeira aula é grátis!

Entra no nosso site (www.skypeclassesluisa.com), escolhe um professor no menu PROFESSORES e manda um e-mail para contato@skypeclassesluisa.com para agendar a sua aula experimental.

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VALENTINE'S DAY

Hi Everyone,
I'm back! Today is one of my favorite holidays in the world. It's Valentine's Day!
Do you know this holiday? Do you have any idea why it is celebrated on  February 14th?
Well, many years ago I was looking for those answers and I found a nice text on the internet that explains all that. I do not know who the author of this text is, but I really liked it and I hope you will  too.

St. Valentine's Story

Let me introduce myself. My name is Valentine. I lived in Rome during the third century. That was long, long ago! At that time, Rome was ruled by an emperor named Claudius. I didn't like Emperor Claudius, and I wasn't the only one! A lot of people shared my feelings.

Claudius wanted to have a big army. He expected men to volunteer to join. Many men just did not want to fight in wars. They did not want to leave their wives and families. As you might have guessed, not many men signed up. This made Claudius furious. So what happened? He had a crazy idea. He thought that if men were not married, they would not mind joining the army. So Claudius decided not to allow any more marriages. Young people thought his new law was cruel. I thought it was preposterous! I certainly wasn't going to support that law!

Did I mention that I was a priest? One of my favourite activities was to marry couples. Even after Emperor Claudius passed his law, I kept on performing marriage ceremonies -- secretly, of course. It was really quite exciting. Imagine a small candlelit room with only the bride and groom and myself. We would whisper the words of the ceremony, listening all the while for the steps of soldiers.

One night, we did hear footsteps. It was scary! Thank goodness the couple I was marrying escaped in time. I was caught. (Not quite as light on my feet as I used to be, I guess.) I was thrown in jail and told that my punishment was death.

I tried to stay cheerful. And do you know what? Wonderful things happened. Many young people came to the jail to visit me. They threw flowers and notes up to my window. They wanted me to know that they, too, believed in love.

One of these young people was the daughter of the prison guard. Her father allowed her to visit me in the cell. Sometimes we would sit and talk for hours. She helped me to keep my spirits up. She agreed that I did the right thing by ignoring the Emperor and going ahead with the secret marriages. On the day I was to die, I left my friend a little note thanking her for her friendship and loyalty. I signed it, "Love from your Valentine."
I believe that note started the custom of exchanging love messages on Valentine's Day. It was written on the day I died, February 14, 269 A.D. Now, every year on this day, people remember. But most importantly, they think about love and friendship. And when they think of Emperor Claudius, they remember how he tried to stand in the way of love, and they laugh -- because they know that love can't be beaten!

Primeira aula de inglês por skype

Oi tudo bem?
Hoje a postagem é dedicada àquelas pessoas que falam português e querem saber como seria a sua primeira aula de Inglês por Skype.
Bem, antes de começar a aula, você receberia um arquivo com o material da aula como este que está no link abaixo:
ATIVIDADE
As aulas por skype são individuais e personalizadas, essa atividade representa um exemplo genérico, somente para você ter uma idéia de como funciona
Além disso estão enfocadas na comunicação, então fazer essa atividade sozinho, sem a interação com o professor, não chega nem perto de uma aula verdadeira.
Se você quer ser capaz de se comunicar em outro idioma, vai ter que se comunicar! Interagir: você necessita falar e escutar. Assistir a vídeo-aulas e fazer atividades em um site não são suficientes!
Quer saber mais sobre como ter aulas por Skype? Entra no nosso site: www.skypeclassesluisa.com

Adoraria receber comentários e se você tiver alguma dúvida sobre a atividade é só escrever nos comentários. Será um prazer te ajudar!
Bye, bye!