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 […]

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 […]

Finding a job as an English teacher in Brazil can be incredibly easy, or it can be the hardest thing you do depending on which approach you take. Because there is so little information about teaching English in Brazil available online, many teachers who come to Brazil end up making their lives more difficult than […]

Word is starting to get out that Brazil is the best place in South America to move to and become an English teacher. Earlier this week I released a music video parody of Gangnam Style that talks about how great of a place Brazil is for teaching English. If you haven’t already seen Brazilian Gringo […]