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Professora de português do Algarve a viver em Barcelona! ❤
Teaches
Portuguese
Native
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English
Spanish
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Instagram @portuguesewithcata
Professora de português do Algarve a viver em Barcelona! ❤
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
From PortugalLiving in Barcelona, Spain (18:22 UTC+02:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Oct 19, 2021
Interest topicArtFoodReading
Hey! My name is Catarina, Im from the south of Portugal but living and working as a teacher in Barcelona for some time now. I speak spanish with fluency and also english. I love chatting about psychology, philosophy and arts! What I love about Italki is that its a great way to expand horizons and at the same time help people with their portuguese. I spend most of my time dancing. I used to dance tango but now I'm more focused in contemporary and hip hop. I also love drawing and writing!
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Me as a Teacher
As a teacher, I learned that each student has different goals and needs, so I really like to get to know my student before we start our classes. The students are the ones that have been dictating what type of classes should I give and how can I construct an efficent method to teach.
Ive been teaching for quite some time and what I really love about this job is the opportunity to get to know different types of people and share the knowledge I have about my country and its language. I love to share what I know about Portugal and also to get to know about my student’s countries and interests. I like to plan conversational focused classes because I feel thats the main goal for all learners.
My lessons & teaching style
I find that the most useful strategy is speaking as much as we can with a native speaker, recognize structures and words and be brave enough to make mistakes. In my classes, I like to know what the students learning goals are so I can adapt my classes to my students needs. In my basic level classes theres a lot of effort putting on learning the basis of the language and its structures, but always focusing in speaking and comprehension. In my conversational classes we will just have fun, practice as much as we can!
Catarina provides tailored guidance and constructive feedback to help you improve your conversation skills effectively. Highly recommended!
Feb 21, 2024
Naïs Álvarez Cardoso
6 Portuguese lessons
Great teacher, she is very friendly, and made me feel very comfortable and not judged at all when speaking in my very poor (for now) portuguese. I’ll be taking more classes with her for sure ☺️
Jan 27, 2024
Sorcha
2 Portuguese lessons
As a beginner, I really appreciated Catarina being patient and going over some basic grammar and pronunciation with me. She was well organised and I enjoyed the class a lot. I'll be booking another lesson soon! :)
Jan 23, 2024
Rodrigo Vargas
10 Portuguese lessons
A Catarina é uma professora extraordinária. Combina a conversação da língua com o ensino de regras de uma forma excelente. Utiliza materiais muito interessantes e adequados às tuas perguntas. Estou contente por poder ter aulas com ela.
Jan 12, 2024
Dana Hovig
6 Portuguese lessons
Amazing and patient teacher. Highly recommend Catarina
Dec 19, 2023
Aleksander Samól
6 Portuguese lessons
I wanted to have challenging lessons and get enough homework so that I could work on my Portuguese in my free time. Catarina delivers that, explains things very well and uses her creativity to make the lessons more interesting. She is flexible, so I'm sure her teaching style would suit many different needs. I enjoy the lessons a lot and look forward to the next ones!