Marco Antônio

Great Japanese teacher. Understands the perspective of a Japanese learner, and give more relevant advice than a native wouldn't be able to give. Marco knows many Japanese learners as well as their unique journies they have taken, and is able to give second-hand advice to a wide range of learners. For my particular lessons, I wanted to drive my own learnings, and decided to go with infrequent check-ins to do reviews, in-depth explanations, as well as advice on possible things to work accompanied by resources and methods to do (practice listening, using these sites and plugins, vary usage of subtitles and amount of replays). One final thing I would like to touch on, for any english-speakers who are afraid of difficulty communicating, that is not an issue. For the longest time, I believed Marco was a native English speaker, and I still doubt his claims that he isn't one.

今日も本当に楽しかったです！ありがとうございました^^ He is friendly and easy to talk to. I never feel nervous!

I can take his classe without being nervous and ask many questions as Marco is always calm. Furthermore,he has an enormous amount of knowledge.

After taking Portuguese classes with Marco, I knew that he would be the perfect teacher to study with to learn some Japanese before traveling to Japan next year. We started off by doing to basics of Hiragana and talking about any rules/exceptions, which was practiced in my homework of transcribing a song from romaji to hiragana. After reviewing my homework, Marco made several suggestions as to what I can do to maximize my time outside of classes. As Marco has experience as both a learner and a teacher, he's able to slow down or speed up based on the knowledge and learning style of each learner.

Foi quase toda aula de português, então foi um bom treino de conversa. Hoje percebi mais uma vez o que não consigo falar, então vou estudar ainda mais. Obrigada! ほとんどポルトガル語の授業だったのでよい会話の練習になりました。自分が話せないことを今日は改めて実感したので、さらに勉強しようと思います。ありがとうございました！

Bom professor! Very patient and great conversation partner