Portuguese Tutors & Teachers

Hello Verbling students! My name is Francisco Berião. I'm a photographer and translator from Brazil. I'm a native Portuguese speaker. I have 6 years of experience teaching English, and Portuguese. I worked at CCAA (Cultural Center for Language Studies, an international language school franchise) teaching beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. I taught foreigners and friends Portuguese on online classes when I lived abroad. If you need to improve your communication skills and improve your pronunciation, I'm here to help you! Since I believe Verbling is a great platform to learn a new language and share a little bit of our culture, we can talk about so many things! I can share my experience traveling, just like you can share yours. What can you tell me about your country? I can also help you to get prepared for a interview, speech and answer grammar questions. Just let me know. Thanks for reading my profile. I hope to help you learn and improve your Portuguese or English soon!

Hello! My name is Rhuana and I'm from Recife, Brazil. I have a Languages degree (Portuguese and French) from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and I did a postgraduate course in Applied Linguistics to Portuguese Language Teaching in the FAFIRE. I also had the opportunity to study Didactics for Languages for six months in the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris. Since 2011, I work as a teacher of Portuguese (as first and foreign language) and French and I’ve had experiences in schools, language courses, online lessons… So I have a large experience teaching both of them and I had the opportunity to teach students with different levels, profiles and goals. My lessons are dynamic, fun and prepared according to the student's objective and interests. Also, I believe that sociocultural aspects are extremely important in the process of learning a language, since it is, above all, social. Therefore, these aspects will be always present in our lessons. I love literature, cinema, TV series, music… I also love to travel, to know new cultures, new languages… Portuguese is my first language, but I also speak French, English and a bit of Spanish. If you want to learn Brazilian Portuguese, to improve your skills in this language or if you are interested in Brazilian culture, I can help you. I hope to meet you soon! Olá! Meu nome é Rhuana e eu sou brasileira, especificamente da cidade de Recife. Sou graduada em Letras (licenciatura em português e francês) pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE e tenho uma especialização em Linguística Aplicada ao Ensino da Língua Portuguesa pela FAFIRE. Além disso, eu tive a oportunidade de estudar Didática das Línguas durante seis meses na Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, em Paris. Trabalho como professora de português (como língua materna e estrangeira), bem como de francês, desde 2011. Já tive experiências em escolas, cursos de idiomas, aulas particulares, aulas online… Tenho, portanto, uma vasta experiência na área e já tive a oportunidade de trabalhar com alunos de diferentes níveis, perfis e objetivos. Minhas aulas são dinâmicas, divertidas e preparadas de acordo com o objetivo e com os interesses do aluno. Além disso, acredito que aspectos socioculturais são extremamente importantes no processo de aprendizagem de uma língua, já que esta é, antes de tudo, social. Assim, esses aspectos estarão presentes nas nossas aulas, no decorrer de todo o processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Gosto muito de literatura, cinema, séries, música… Também adoro viajar, conhecer novas culturas, novas línguas… Português é minha língua materna, mas eu também falo francês, inglês e um pouco de espanhol. Se você quer aprender o português do Brasil, desenvolver as competências que você já tem neste idioma ou tem interesse pela cultura brasileira, eu posso te ajudar. Espero conhecê-lo em breve! Até logo!

I am an experienced and certified teacher of Portuguese, English and German (although I haven't been teaching German). I am a teacher in the public system since 1995. I truly believe that 'practise makes perfect', so the more you practise speaking a language, the better you'll do it! I always have a sequence of contents ready to use but I believe it is better to teach according to the student's needs and interests.