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Jackie: For this week's podcastsinenglish.com I'm talking to Ana Luisa who comes from Portugal. Hi.
Ana: Hello
Jackie: Ana Luisa is a language teacher, but she's a language teacher with two hats.
Ana: Yes. I teach Portuguese to English students and English to Portuguese students.
Jackie: What came first?
Ana: Well, I went to England and I did a certificate in language teaching.
Jackie: Was that to teach Portuguese or to teach English?
Ana: To teach Portuguese.
Jackie: Right
Ana: To English. They were evening classes so mostly adult students, a range of ages from 23 to 72 I think.
Jackie: Did you enjoy that course?
Ana: Yes, because I had to design the course myself.
Jackie: Oh, okay, so that was interesting.
Ana: Yes, it was um… fun, it was fun. I was living and teaching in Lincoln which is not a very er… large city in The Midlands.
Jackie: Was it difficult finding students who wanted to learn Portuguese?
Ana: Altogether I did it for three years and the first year there were twelve people in the course.
Jackie: Oh right okay. So when you said you did it for three years, that means after you got the teaching certificate, you then became er… an employed teacher?
Ana: Yes, in a local college, yes. Two evenings a week.
Jackie: Oh wow. And then you said that you also teach English to Portuguese students. Where did you train to do that?
Ana: A few years later when I came back to Portugal um… I did an intensive month course in Lisbon.
Jackie: Tell me about the Portuguese students that you have, the ones who are learning English. Are they very different to the… the English students wanting to learn Portuguese?
Ana: Yes, because now, my classes, my students are all young: nine, ten year olds.
Jackie: Oh, quite a lot younger then.
Ana: Yes
Jackie: Yeah. Do you still enjoy that job?
Ana: Yes, yes, I love it, and it's so… so very different. A lot more stressful; the children need a lot of activities. I have to prepare an awful lot more. And the hours, it's a three-hour slot, not an hour and a half.
Jackie: So much longer. Right.
Ana: Classes, yes.
Jackie: Yes, yeah. So Ana Luisa do you prefer then um… teaching… teaching Portuguese to the adult English students?
Ana: No um… I enjoyed all the friendships that came from it but the relationship I've built up with my young learners, my Portuguese learners of English, it's very rewarding and I love every minute of it.
Jackie: Well Ana Luisa um… I think your next project is to teach me Portuguese.
Ana: That'll be fun.
Jackie: Thanks a lot.
Ana: You're welcome.
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