Miguel

Hello, my name is Miguel, I was born in Lisbon (1982), where I grew up and where I currently live. After my high school studies in Lisbon, I moved to Brussels to study drawing, where I obtained a Master's degree in Fine Arts and lived and worked for 14 years. Later, I made a Post-Graduate course also in the Art field, in Germany. Experiences that exposed me to a rich, multilingual and multicultural context. It was during my studies that I began teaching my mother tongue. In 2011, I consolidated this experience with a Teacher of Portuguese as a Foreign Language course at CIAL (language center, Lisbon). The knowledge and experience of French, English and German acquired during my higher education, combined with an interest in languages and literature, led me, already during my studies, to work as a translator and to teach Portuguese (mother tongue) to foreigners, in various educational establishments and private courses (in Belgium - Logoslanguages, F9- Languages, EPFC; and in Germany). In 2011, I consolidated this experience with a training course in teaching Portuguese as a foreign language at CIAL (Language Centre, Lisbon). Since then, I've been teaching Portuguese, mainly in private lessons. In my lessons, I try to start from the student's objectives, interests and context, and then propose a communication method that combines conversation with the learning of specific grammatical elements of the language, using different methods (reading short texts, listening, etc.) that will allow the absorption and integration of the language in an efficient and fluent way, without discrimination of level or time of learning.