Fast Presentation (you’ll know me better in the classes!)

Hey There! If you want to learn English, you’ve stopped by the right place. Believe me, I know the value and the importance of this beautiful language. And it’s not because I teach it, no! Like everybody else in Brasil, I had English classes in school, mas only in my teenage years I started to really use it in my daily life. Since then, I’ve never stopped: between university books of physics, math and medicine; academic papers of science and philosophy; emails exchanged with specialists from 3 different continents during the pandemic; a trip to Iran; and several, several conversations with other speakers of the language, for more than 1- years that language has been a constant part of my life. For a long time, I used to say to whoever would like to listen to it that the learning of English was the greatest gift that someone could give to oneself. Nowadays, through my classes, I have the opportunioty to change the lives of people by helping them to give themselves exactly that gift!  

Our future classes

• As someone who has already used English a lot not only to read but also to talk, not only for day-to-day subjects but also for academic matters, not only to talk to other Brazilians but to talk to foreigners of various natioinalities as well, I’m absolutely prepared to help you achieve your goals with the language, whatever they are. If you can think about a goal, I can help you with it! And this concept is essential in my methodology: goals. Since the beggining, the first thing I’ll want to know is the “for what” you want to learn English: our classes are going to be completely based on your goals, not in my personal preferences. Evidently, your goals might change with time, as your communication in the language improves, and we’ll make together the necessary adjustments if that happens!
• By the way, if the student’s goals are one of the cornerstone of my teaching, the other one is simple: communication. For me, the ability of the student to communicate (to read, to write, to listen and to speak) is the priority, not unending grammatical rules and linguistic nuances. Believe me: I’ve spent a lot of my time studying these issues, and I can say with certainty that they don’t have priority in the learning of languages. Of course, if your goal is learning grammar, for whatever reason, we’ll study this, but I won’t push onto you the 3 main generalized uses that the linguists assign to the verb tense called “Present Perfect” just because I feel like doing so. No. I repeat: my priority is making you communicate and communicate well, not making you keep learning complicated things that will make little to no difference in your life.

Methodology and teaching strategies

I’ve already talked a little about my teaching methodology in the section above, “Our future classes”. And, even though it’s not important to get into unnecessary technical details about techniques, theories and philosophical approaches, I do want to make it clear that, in my (our!) classes, I make use of useful strategies and concepts that come from psychology, neuroscience, geography, business, philosophy and linguistics to better guide my students in their learning of English. Many of these concepts and strategies are well known (for example: “spaced repetition” and “free reacall” from the psychology of memory and of learning; the taxonomy of the different kinds of goals, from management theory; the concept of linguistics nuance, which applies to different uses of a single verb form to express different communicational intentions; etc.), but what sets my teaching apart is the applied use I make of them: in general, you won’t even notice the strategies and the concepts I’m using during the class, or as I prepare your homework, but my head will be working with them to offer you the best learning opportunity!

Contact

So, what are you still waiting for? Contact me ( you just have to click the image below!) and, if there still are any free spots in my schedule, I’ll be happy to help your learn a lot of English!!