If you try to generalize the types of people that go to Brazil to teach English you will fail. Its not just recent college grads and retirees that are looking towards the South American giant for English teaching opportunities, young families are increasingly setting up their nest in Brazil. Today’s guest interview is from Shannon […]

Do you want to have your phone ringing off the hook with people wanting to take English classes from you? Do you want to have private students lined up even before you enter the country? Do you want to teach to students who share the same passions as you? Its possible to accomplish all of […]

Teaching English in Brazil is not only a great way to learn Portuguese and experience Brazilian culture, but it is also a great launching pad for starting a business in a developing market. An increasingly common trend in Brazil is for a foreigner to come here, teach English for a few months, learn Portuguese, make […]

If you come to work in Brazil as an English teacher you can expect to have a schedule that is unlike any work schedule that you’ve had before. English teachers in Brazil work around the schedule of their clients, so it tends to be a job with unusual hours. In order to better prepare you […]

After you’ve been working for a school for a while and you start to get the hang of this English teaching thing, you’re going to start thinking about how to teach to private students. Teaching English to private students can earn you sometimes twice as much as you’d earn working at a school. You also […]