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Hi!

First of all I need to  introduce myself: My name is Carla (and that's my baby girl, Tallulah). I’m Brazilian (from Porto Alegre)but I live in Italy. I’ve always been  passionate about English… in 2002, just 6 months after  my graduation (in Social Communication/ Publishing and Advertising) my husband and I we’ve decided to go abroad to study and improve our English… Since then, we’ve been to America, England and now in Italy . Since 2005 I’ve been teaching “English as a Second Language”.. a kind of work I’d never thought I would do… don’t  ask me why… but just after a few months I fell in love on this “way” of teaching: for foreigners (speaker of other languages)

As a non-english native person, more than just “give” lessons I needed (still need) to practice.. a lot.. always… I need to learn and improve every day to be able to “teach” something (give, share)... Teach English is not just open a book and give lessons, it’s not enough to “know” English… now I have pupils, I have questions that have to be answered and it's NOT easy, not at all!!

So, I was thinking… since my field is “communications”, I thought of a good way to practice… creating this blog. I believe I have a very good “ear”, I have a very good understanding and I think I also can communicate (speak) quite well but I NEED to write more. I’ve been offered to teach a class in a “British Institute” here in Italy, I want to do a Master in Linguistics, I want to get more jobs as a translator  as well and for that I need to keep pushing and learning  and practicing.

When I had the idea of making a new blog all in English (I’ve got one already, but written in Portuguese) I couldn’t think of a better name as “lost in translation”… as I will be sometimes (hehehe), but hoping to improve day-by-day.. or I’d say post-by-post??? (hehe) and for that, if you have any ideas, thoughts, questions, fears… hehehehe… just tell me!!!  I’ll try to write at least once a week and talk about everything… and if you have something “good” to say, please… be my guest… If you have something bad to say? (in a really bad way I mean) Go and find another blog to bother!! Hahahahahaha…

I’ll try to write about English, about travels, about other languages, different cultures, people… and if like me, you have ever been “lost in translation” we will find a way to laugh together here…

See you soon!!