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Poll results: English in Brazil IT

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Mark Hillary

The IT Decisions LinkedIn group recently asked readers a question related to the use of English in the IT industry in Brazil: How important are English skills to IT professionals in Brazil? We checked the group today to see the … Continue reading →

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Is English essential for IT professionals?

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Mark Hillary

The use of English is a topic we have returned to often at IT Decisions. Brazil doesn’t use English as a first language, but the international IT industry does – even programming languages use keywords in English – so how … Continue reading →

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A foreigner’s Portuguese language journey

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Mark Hillary

I arrived in Brazil earlier this year and knew that I would need to use Portuguese to survive here, but my attempts to learn the language while I was still living in London were beset with problems.

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Don Tapscott on education in Brazil

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Mark Hillary

Canadian author, speaker and all-round expert on innovation, Don Tapscott, was in Brazil at the weekend to speak at the TEDx USP Leste event at the University of São Paulo. He was delivering a keynote speech on how education in … Continue reading →

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Ada Lovelace and Brazil’s female IT pros

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Mark Hillary

When I was studying computer science at college in the UK, one of the things I had to learn was how to write software in the programming language Ada. It’s quite hard compared to languages such as BASIC or C, the languages … Continue reading →

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English training for techies is in the cloud

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Mark Hillary

IT Decisions has commented in the past on the difficulties faced by IT professionals in Brazil who want to learn, or improve, their English language skills – though given the growth of the IT industry in Brazil some might argue … Continue reading →

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Brazilian techies must improve Portuguese skills

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Mark Hillary

Kleber Pedroso is an experienced English language coach for Brazilian IT professionals. In his latest guest column for IT Decisions, he points out that before learning English, Brazilian IT professionals should be proficient in their own native language.

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IT’s Brazil: Is English essential for IT?

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Mark Hillary

IT Decisions has published a number of stories where CIOs have talked about the need for IT graduates to be able to use the English language. It’s not that it is essential for writing software, but in large companies where … Continue reading →

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IT’s Brazil: A bad communication day

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Mark Hillary

When IT Decisions recently asked British expat and business English teacher in Rio de Janeiro Sam Watten to outline some of the difficulties English-speaking executives have when working in Brazil, his comments struck a nerve. His initial column last April received many hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Brazilian academic gives a social media lesson

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Mark Hillary

Renata Santiago is a professor at FAAP university in São Paulo, teaching social media and communications. She also teaches digital communications at SENAC and is a social media strategist at CDN Digital.

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