Fabiana Oliveira
From São Paulo, Brazil
Fabiana was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She has a BA in Languages & Literatures from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, both in Portuguese and Spanish.
Fabiana has worked as a Portuguese teacher in São Paulo and Ireland and has more than ten years experience in teaching teenagers and adults from different nationalities and for various purposes. She enjoys teaching Portuguese and learning about foreign cultures.
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Teacher
Paula Simão
From Ericeira, Portugal
Paula has a Master’s Degree in Portuguese as a Foreign Language from Universidade Aberta de Lisboa and has been teaching young learners and adults for some years.
Paula has vast experience with a lot of different nationalities, both private and group classes and also for different purposes.
She loves finding out about other countries and cultures, always with a smile or a good laugh!
Paula Antunes
From Lisbon, Portugal
Paula is a European Portuguese Teacher, born and raised in Lisbon. She lives in Portugal and has several years experience teaching Portuguese as a foreign language.
She has a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Portuguese Language & Literature and a bachelor's degree in Portuguese Language & Literature, both from Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
She loves her job!
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Teacher
Dener Martins
From Santo André, Brazil
Dener was born and raised in Santo André, near São Paulo City, Brazil. He has been teaching Brazilian Portuguese for several years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature from São Paulo State University (UNESP) and a Master’s degree in Modern Foreign Language Teaching from Londrina State University (UEL).
He has experience teaching young learners and adults for different purposes.
Dener is passionate about learning languages and about teaching Portuguese!
Josefina L. Simões
From Brazil
Josefina is a Brazilian teacher from São Paulo who holds a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics, a post graduation in Bilingual education and a teaching Degree in Languages (English / Portuguese).
She has experience teaching Portuguese to foreigners at universities, at language schools and with preparatory CELPE-Bras courses.
Josefina has been teaching kids, teenagers and adults for 14 years and also works on a project providing Portuguese courses for refugees.
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Teacher
Vanessa Regufe
From Porto, Portugal
Vanessa is a European Portuguese Teacher from the vibrant northern city of Porto. She was a Trainee Teacher (2014-15) both in Prague and Brno (Czech Republic) and since then she has been teaching students from all over the world, both at schools in the north of Portugal as well as with Instituto Camões.
Vanessa has a BA in Law from Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto and an MA in Teaching Portuguese as a Second and Foreign language from Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto.
Vanessa is currently teaching group and private classes at the Portuguese Language Centre.
Liz Clooney
From Waterford, Ireland
Liz is the Managing Director of the Portuguese Language Centre and has been working with the school since August 2015. She is responsible for the administration, finance, business planning and recruitment areas of the school and enjoys participating in the creative strategy.
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