Betania

Betania Bezerra - Instructor

Betania found out about her passion for the Portuguese language while attending middle school in her hometown of Porto Alegre, in the southernmost state of Brazil. During Portuguese classes she was fascinated by her native tongue while most of her classmates despised sitting through an entire grammar class. Betania realized not only that she had fallen in love with the Portuguese language, but that she was proficient at it.

Betania was born and raised in a city that has a strong cultural tradition so she enjoyed a diversity of activities like book readings and theater plays. In addition, her mother used to be a Social Sciences teacher so Betania became attracted to Brazilian folklore very early on. 

Betania has been living in San Francisco-CA since 2000. The diversity of people and cultures in America helped her realize how proud she was of her own ethnicity and how she enjoyed sharing it with everybody.