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For me, Marcia’s teaching method is just the right one: She focuses on speaking, and speaking correctly, and is strict enough so I have to focus. And she always gives good feedback and helps me with the right pronunciation, which is very important to me. Her books are very useful, too: You learn grammar, and [...]

My Portugues Carioca experience: …I took a Portuguese test prior to my class start up, result of this was that Portuguese Carioca gave me tailor made  classes. I am very satisfied with the methodology that PC using, the teacher made me speak from the first class and really pushing me to speak correctly…Also the book [...]

…For me, the teaching method has also been excellent; the focus is on speaking and on every day topics that help me manage all the daily challenges. The learning of grammar has been different from other language schools I have attended and far more effective. I fully recommend Português Carioca to anyone.

…I have had two teachers from the school and they have both been excellent. I particularly enjoy the focus on speaking a lot during lessons. The teachers are always on time and very well prepared. They have also been very open for feedback and I have been able to select, for example, texts on specific [...]

I am a Californian and on my second trip to Brazil I sought out Portuguese classes because I wanted to understand and speak with my friends that live here in Rio. During this trip I had an apartment in Copacabana so I chose to take a cab to class everyday which intimidated me because I [...]