To find a job as an English teacher in Brazil you have to go through a process that is much different than what you would go through to find a job back home. If you’re thinking of moving to Brazil to become an English teacher then you have probably looked online trying to find a […]
The Most Important Portuguese Phrases to Learn
As someone who is just starting out learning Brazilian Portuguese you probably have no idea where to start. Especially if you’ve never learned a foreign language before, or if your only language learning experience came from an ineffective high school class, you’re swimming around lost in a sea of information. What you need is a […]
Raising a Family and Teaching English in Brazil
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 […]
How to Get Private Students Before You Enter the Country
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 […]
Going Beyond English Teaching in São Paulo
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 […]
Work Schedules for 3 Types of English Teachers in Brazil
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 […]
How to Get Private English Students in Brazil
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 […]
How to Teach English if You Don’t Speak Portuguese
A common objection that people have to the idea of teaching English in Brazil is that they don’t speak any Portuguese. While speaking Portuguese is useful for living in Brazil, it isn’t necessary to speak any Portuguese in order to be an English teacher in Brazil. The truth is that you don’t need to speak […]
Video: Asking for Directions in Broken Portuguese
Picking up where I left off yesterday by asking someone for the time, today I decided to ask for directions in the most basic Portuguese I could muster. Take a look. What I want to demonstrate with this video is that you don’t need to speak Portuguese fluently in order to get your meaning across. […]
Video: How to Ask for the Time in Portuguese
I made today’s video in response to yesterday’s video where I challenged you to speak more Portuguese and speak less English. In the video I stop a random person on the street and ask them what time it is. Doing short little exercises like this will have a great effect on improving your Portuguese. Asking […]