A trained teacher who
happens to be carioca.
I'm Anne Caroline — a trained language educator and a native carioca from Rio de Janeiro. I hold a degree in Language Education, I'm partway through a master's in Portuguese linguistics, and I've taught nearly 2,000 logged lessons online since 2020 — so I don't just speak Brazilian Portuguese, I know how to teach it. My students have left 49 reviews: every one of them five stars.
Any Brazilian can talk to you.
A teacher can get you unstuck.
I'm Anne Caroline, and here's the difference between a native speaker and a teacher: any Brazilian can chat with you in Portuguese. A teacher knows why you're stuck and what to do about it. That's the job I trained for — a degree in Language Education, a master's in Portuguese linguistics underway, and 1,956 logged lessons spent diagnosing mistakes, sequencing grammar so it actually sticks, and explaining why Brazilians say it the way they do. The warmth of Rio comes free; the teaching is the craft.
What Anne actually studied —
and what it does for you.
Anne Caroline's qualifications aren't decoration on a profile. Each one maps to something that happens inside a lesson — which is the only place a credential is worth anything.
Degree in Language Education
CompletedDegree in Language Education — formal training in how languages are taught and learned: diagnosing errors, sequencing grammar, designing lessons that build on each other.
Master's in Portuguese Linguistics (in progress)
UnderwayAnne is partway through a master's in Letras — Portuguese linguistics — studying how the language actually works underneath the rules: why the subjunctive shows up where it does, why word order shifts meaning, why some things Brazilians say every day never appear in a textbook.
Language Teaching Certificate
Issued by Preply, 2025Anne earned the Preply Language Teaching Certificate in 2025 — a verified assessment of classroom practice: lesson structure, error correction, and keeping a one-to-one session moving.
Six years of teaching,
every lesson counted.
Anne Caroline has been teaching Portuguese since 2020. Here's the whole arc — where the training started, where the 1,956 lessons were logged, and where she teaches now.
Anne starts teaching privately
Anne Caroline began tutoring Portuguese one-to-one in 2020, straight out of her Language Education degree — the training first, then the students.
Anne joins Preply
In May 2022, Anne took her teaching to Preply and started logging every lesson she taught. Students found her from all over the world.
The record
Between May 2022 and February 2026, Anne taught 1,956 lessons and her students left 49 reviews — every one of them five stars, with no negative ratings. That record was earned on her original Preply profile, which is no longer online; the Internet Archive captured it in full on February 6, 2026, and all 49 reviews are republished verbatim on this site.
Read all 49 reviews →Anne teaches independently
Anne opened this site in 2026 to teach on her own terms — her own curriculum, her own calendar, her own students. Same training, same teacher, more room to build a course around one person at a time.
The training is the reason it works.
The hour still feels like Rio.
Lessons with Anne are 50 minutes on Google Meet, and they don't feel like an exam. I'll ask about your week, you'll answer in Portuguese, and somewhere in there I'll catch the thing you keep getting wrong and we'll fix it — gently, and usually while laughing about it.
My students tell me the same thing over and over: they came in nervous and left wanting to book the next one. Some are heading to Brazil. Some are learning for a Brazilian they love. Some are sitting the CELPE-Bras and need someone who knows exactly what the examiners want. I build the course around you — that's the part the degree taught me, and the part I like best.
And you'll never be graded on being perfect. You'll be corrected because I want you speaking to real Brazilians and being understood — which, honestly, is a very good feeling. Come find out. Your first lesson is backed by a full money-back guarantee, so the only thing you risk is 50 minutes.
Come meet me properly —
50 minutes, no risk.
Anne Caroline teaches one-to-one over Google Meet: $40 for a single 50-minute lesson, $140 a month for four, $240 a month for eight. If your first lesson isn't right for you, Anne refunds it in full — no questions asked.