I Need Some Help. I'm thinking of turn myself a tutor of portuguese language on italki. In order to do that, I have to make a presentation video talking about myself. I've prepared the following text: "Hi everyone! My name is Ewerton. I'm Brazilian. I live in a city called Cambé in the state of Paraná. I'm 31 years old and I'm a doctor in math. I'm not a professional teacher of portuguese, actually, I'm a professor of math. But, as a native speaker of portuguese, I can help you to improve your portuguese. I have been studying English for my own and I know how much important is to practice the speaking as soon as you can. I like to talk and to get to know new people and I like to share some of the brazilian culture. Since I'm not a professional teacher, in my classes, I don't focus in grammar rules, rather, I focus on the conversation, in this way, I can help you to improve your accent so that you may sound more like a brazilian portuguese native speaker. I focus on the portuguese linguage spoken in everyday life. The more you practice your speaking, the more you get confidence. Do you need any help? I am here to help you. See you." Is that text written in a correct way? Thank you.

Is Life Really Good? Have you heard that life is good? Me either. Despite of people say it so many times, I think that life is tough. Life always hits us so hard and because of that sometimes we lost the direction of our life. Let me give you some examples of that: we have dreams that didn’t turn into reality, we don’t have enough money to pay our bills, we have a job we don’t like, we are sick, we fight each other, we are robbed, when we look at people around of us, we are always able to find someone in hardship. Those are exemple of difficulties that we can experiencing in our life. I bet you are thinking I am a depressed man, or at least, I am a pessimist. I prefer to think that I am a realist. We can’t flee of our hardships, but we can face them and we have to face them. We have to look at what we have got and be thankful. It includes our Family and friends. We have to help someone in need as always as we can. It makes us happier than the person that got helped. If we don’t get something that we want yet, it can be a matter of time, if we carry on to effort ourselves, we will get it. Even if we don’t get it, it will be really good for us? We will never know. We have to be able to identify the paths we can take in our life and choosing the better ones. If there is some regrets in the past of our lifes, it must be left in the past, from now we have to take new attitudes. In this way, I think we are strenghten facing the life.

Brazil Is A Beautiful Coutry, But... I love my country, Brazil. Brazil has so many awesome landscapes, has beautiful people in all senses of that word. Brazilians are hospitalitable, always want to help someone that is in trouble. Most of brazilians are humble and work a lot. Brazilians has a good mood, it is easy to make a brazilian to smile and certainly he will make you smile too. Brazilians are smarts and inteligents. We have the best soccer players in the soccer history and we have the biggest hydroelectric plant in terms of power generation. If you don't know a brazilian, I think you are leaving aside an opportunity to have a great friendship. Despite of those qualities of brazilians, Brazil has a lot of problems. I think the biggest problem is corruption. There is much corruption in the government. A lot of money coming from taxes that have been payed by brazilians is deviated toward politicians' pockets. It causes serious problems in the education, health and security areas. Violence is another serious problem, if you google about violence in the Rio de Janeiro you will see horrible things like firefight between cops and bandits everyday. We are near of presidencial elections. I hope the next brazilian president is be able to govern Brazil in a honest way and treat brazilian people with dignity. I hope Brazil will be a better place for all brazilians.

My Workplace I work at the State University of Londrina. Londrina is a city in Brazil and its name means "little London". I think any university is a beautiful place because it is through the universities that the knowledge is handed on to people and spreads. But I think the university of Londrina has something different. The university is located near a forest garden. In the campus of the university there are a lot of species of trees and flowers. Because of that, there are many species of birds there like woodpecker, toucan, maritaca and sabiá. Also, there is a specie of monkey, the capuchin monkey. It is usual to see they walking arround on sidewalks and climbing the trees. All those things make the university even more bealtiful.

That Was Funny. Some days ago, I watched on YouTube a funny advertisement. In the advertisement there were three american scientists which was watching videos about Brazilians. In the videos Brazilians were speaking some of most frequently used slangs in Brazil. Those slangs were "eita" and "mano do céu". I'll try to explain those slangs. Eita is a slang that does not have a meaning, even in portuguese. It is just a slang or expression that brazilians use when they are surprised or astounded about something or someone. Mano do céu has a meaning but it does not make sense. Mano do céu literally means "brother from the sky". The slang "mano do céu" as well as "eita" is used for brazilians when they are surprised or astouding about something or someone. Let me give an exemple: Imagine that you have a friend and you know that he does not have money. One day he came to you and said "I bought a Ferrari". In that situation, a Brazilian could say "eita" or "mano do céu". Now you can ask: What was that advertisement about? That advertisement was about a chocolate company. While the american scientists were trying to understand those Brazilian slangs, a storyteller said: Brazilians have to be studied (because they use slangs that does not make sense). Also, the storyteller gave an explain why Brazilians use those slangs, brazilians have cocoa, the feedstock of chocolate.

I would like to learn english. Hi. My name is Ewerton. I'm brazilian. I'm looking for a language partner to help me learn english. If you want to learn brazilian portuguese, I can help you.