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Caption: Tadaah! Hi everyone, welcome to the 2023 Teach Yourself
Portuguese retrospective. Help me do some magic, Bruno. Oops, no! Christmas has passed. Christmas has passed. Now yes,
we are now ready for the 2023 Teach Yourself Portuguese retrospective.
And in this video, I would like to share with you how we went from this to this
in just one year and also how this is nothing. Numbers are not important. What
matters is the Teachers Portuguese community that was formed throughout this year, mainly.
And I would like to share a little of this story with you in today's video.
Before January, in August 2022, I made a decision. Every month, I will stop
teaching for a week, I will not work, and I will dedicate myself 100% to my YouTube videos,
to my YouTube channel. This channel. And that's how it all began. So,
quick context. Now yes, let's move on to the month of January.
In January, we started with 130 subscribers and ended with 1589 subscribers.
This number is not important, but notice the difference between the start
and end in January and the other months of 2023. I would like to start with an
extremely relevant fact for my channel and very important for me.
In January, my first serious YouTube video was released, which is this video here,
my Episode number one of the podcast, where I introduce myself and talk about why I'm doing the podcast.
It closed 2 years ago, and now, next month, it will close 3 years of existence. This video is special
for two reasons: number one, it was the video that started what's happening now;
and number two, it's the video that brings the most subscribers to my channel. I imagine that if you are
watching this video, you probably discovered my channel through this video. Which
is very interesting, and to this day, it is one of the most watched videos on my channel.
Why? I don't know. Share here in the comments how you found me on YouTube. Was it through
this video? If you found this video, where did it appear? Did you search,
did it appear in the recommendations? So, it's really cool to see that the beginning of it all was in a video without
many plans, and nowadays, we're here on episode 16 or 17, and the podcast continues.
In 2023, in January, my student Cristof came to visit me here in Brazil. It was really
cool because I made him lasagna. I made breaded flower rice,
because it's his favorite dish. We drank Belgian beers and Brazilian beers,
and we played VR. It was very cool. So, if you are my student and you come to visit Brazil,
I can make a lasagna or a favorite recipe for you.
Anyway, it was really cool to meet Christopher in person, and my year started off in style
when I received this visit. Another incredible thing was that I was
among the top 1% of Italki's best teachers, you can see it here. So,
I started my year in style, and that made me very happy.
Obviously, in February, honestly, I had already been working for many months
in the previous year without a break, without a vacation, and I decided to give myself a break. I decided to give myself
a mini vacation. So I took a little break during YouTube week. I know,
I know, but it was necessary, because mental health is also important.
As you know, I am a teacher who likes different things, different approaches,
and trying different things to teach Portuguese. So, one of the things I thought about
in February was: what if I started doing lives? Because at the time, I was consuming,
I was watching a lot of lives. I started my channel on Twitch and I started doing lives on
Twitch, which weren't necessarily Teach Yourself Portuguese. It was a personal project
of mine called L Languages, which is my name on Twitch and my name on Instagram. Basically,
it was a way to share how I study languages ​​and not necessarily teach Portuguese
directly with these lives on Twitch. However, I learned how to do lives, and that was very,
very important and very valuable, because the lives that I do today on YouTube, they were thought out,
they were structured, and they were created based on things that I tried for the first time on Twitch.
I thought that after I got the affiliate, it would be quick. That I was going to set things up
quickly on the Twitch dashboard. But as you've noticed, I spent all day
setting up things for Twitch. So, I'm very grateful to all the people who
met me on Twitch or who came from Twitch. If you came from Twitch, leave it in the comments,
because it was a way to learn how to do live without doing live on YouTube, in other words,
it was like doing live for a smaller community, without doing it on YouTube for the first time. Because,
right, fear. Fear of doing lives on YouTube is nervous, it's a nervousness that's difficult to explain.
But, anyway, for months, I did these lives. For months, I learned how
to use the programs that are used to do live and everything else. And I also got used to this idea
of ​​interacting with the camera, but actually interacting with the chat. With the chat that is
texting. Which is a totally different thing from teaching, for example.
In fact, I have a podcast episode on this subject too, it’s on the card here. Another
curious thing was that I was very nervous before the live. I usually get nervous before a class
with a new student, with a new, normal student, because I don't know the person yet, so
I'm not used to it yet. But it was different. It was a nervous feeling of I don't know what's going to happen.
And I'm going to reference several of my videos during this video, because it's a summary of the year.
We started February with 1594 subscribers here on YouTube and ended February with 1651
subscribers. So, you see the difference in the number of subscribers once again. March was a month where
I started to do things a little slower. I started trying to do too many
things at once. And that's me, Luan, the megalomaniac, workaholic, workaholic,
addicted to doing many projects at the same time. I was trying to learn Italian, German,
Dutch, Mandarin live on Twitch at the same time, creating content for YouTube and Instagram
and trying to do this while teaching on the platform where I teach.
Some things started to not work, obviously, and I started to get very
tired and very stressed with everything that was happening at the same time. So, in March,
here on YouTube, if you search for videos, there is very little content. There are few lives,
there are few videos, because I reduced the frequency because of other projects.
And one of the things I learned in March is that I couldn't handle everything I was
trying to do at the same time. I know it's obvious to you, it may sound like a very obvious thing,
but for megalomaniac Luan, full of ideas and full of projects, hmm, it wasn't that obvious
. It was important for me to have this reality check, of 'Luan, you weren't able to make your
videos, you weren't able to edit your videos in a while and deliver the content to your
subscribers'. This made me realize that I couldn't keep doing things
at that pace alone, and that's when something extremely important happened in April.
But first, we started March with 150 subscribers and ended it here on YouTube
with 1704. It was a slow month, I would say, but it was a valuable month with a lot of learning for me.
In the month of April, I already started the month with the awareness that it won't work out like this.
I won't be able to do everything I want, and then we make a decision. Actually,
I made the decision, but you helped me with that decision. The decision was to find a publisher.
The first time we do it, we always have this feeling of 'Oh my God, am I doing it
right? Didn't I forget something? Shouldn't I do it another way?' So,
I think it's wonderful that I can share it with you, and guess what, I found the best
editor in the world. He's here behind this screen right now, editing this, this,
this, this and this. Sorry, Bruno, but yes, he is very good. He's extremely skilled,
he's extremely talented, he's extremely efficient, and he's extremely charismatic.
he's extremely talented, he's extremely efficient, and he's extremely charismatic.
You probably already know Bruno from the live chat, and Bruno is currently responsible
for editing all the videos on the channel, including shorts, including the Instagram material which
are the vertical videos, including everything you watch that is here on YouTube.
So, finding Bruno was not an easy task, but I thank you for participating
in the polls. We together choose the editor. I don't know if you remember,
I created an ad on LinkedIn. Ah, we filter the candidates. I asked for material to analyze,
I showed it to you. We chose the best, we decided he was the best,
and together we chose Bruno. And he's part of the Teachers Portuguese family now.
So, from April onwards, everything changed in terms of the speed and amount
of content I was able to create, produce and publish.
Furthermore, in April, we also had an activity on Discord, which was the
Easter chocolate egg hunt, where we did an activity within Gather.town, I think that's the
name of the website. We created a metaverse and held a special Easter meeting, where we had
some interactive activities. It was really cool, it was really cool. I intend to do something like this
or even cooler in 2024. So, if you like Easter or chocolate, turn on notifications.
April started with 175 subscribers and we ended with 1771 subscribers,
so it was a slightly faster month, I would say,
in terms of number of subscribers. But you will see what happened in a little while in May.
Teach Yourself Portuguese turned into a serious company with meetings, Bruno and I
discussing things in relation to the videos. Bruno is the person who knows how much of a perfectionist
I am and why it takes me so long to edit my videos. I have ideas,
but I don't have skills. Then, in May, things started moving a little faster in
terms of production, and because of that, we had more subscribers. We started May with 1705 subscribers
and ended with 1919 subscribers. Here things have already changed. But we will understand why.
At that time, a video went viral on Instagram, and many of my students
started sending me DM messages. Some people who were not my students,
but who know that I am a teacher of Portuguese as a foreign language, also started
sending me this video here. Some people asked why I didn't get that joke,
I didn't get that part, or why he's talking about that. So, I had two options:
either I responded individually to certain things in Instagram DMs,
or I analyzed Marcos Eni's video and explained to everyone at the same time
what this way of 'traumatizing' foreigners was all about. When I did this, I had two options.
I remember it was like a Tuesday, I think it was from Tuesday to Wednesday. My day off
is Wednesday. I work on Saturdays and I work on Sundays,
so Wednesday is the day I don't work. And this video went viral this week and I thought,
hmm, either I take Wednesday off because it's my day off,
or I work on Tuesday night and create material, create a script to do a live on
Wednesday fair about 'traumatizing foreigners' and learning Portuguese.
And it was my decision. I decided to do this live, and honestly,
I don't regret it one bit, because this live was the live that exploded the number
of views on my channel. And because of this live, a lot of people, like, a lot of people,
found my channel. I'm gonna help you understand every single one of the jokes,
every single one of the lines. Some of them were not people who were
looking for a Portuguese teacher or were not people who were learning Portuguese.
After this live, I talked to Bruno and said, "Bruno, let's turn this 1h30 live into
a 20-minute, 30-minute video, because not everyone has time to watch a
1-hour live3." And this video became the most watched video on my channel, as you can see,
it literally went viral or semi-viral, it kind of piggybacked on the wave of the original video. And this
made my channel extremely boosted at that time. So, instead of
the 50 new subscribers that my channel normally had, we had these 200, 200 new subscribers,
more or less, in a month. And that was like, it was really cool, but at the same time it was a
little scary, I confess, because I wasn't prepared for this rain of comments, not of
Portuguese students, but Brazilians saying random and funny things in this video.
Now, a little outside of YouTube life, I was invited by a Portuguese teacher
who lives in Costa Rica to give two special classes, one at the University of Costa Rica
and the other at the Instituto Tecnológico da Costa Rica. They were online classes, I didn't go to Costa Rica,
unfortunately. But I had the pleasure of teaching two different classes in Costa Rica. They were
very nice, they were very special classes for me, I keep them with great affection in my heart,
and I thank Professor Rose for the invitation once again. Whenever you want,
Rose, I'm available to do these projects, and other teachers,
we can talk about projects like this, because I love doing these types of projects.
May ended with these 1900 subscribers,
and I was shocked by 'Oh my God, a video of mine went viral'. Let's go to June.
I received an invitation to be a speaker at the Portuguese as a Foreign Language Congress
of the Sou Brasil group in 2023, as a teacher and creator of Portuguese language content
for foreigners here on YouTube. This was kind of absurdly special, I was very
nervous for this presentation, but obviously, I accepted the invitation, and I was one of the speakers
at this conference. My presentation was about 'What if learning Portuguese was as fun as
playing video games?', because I love playing video games and I love learning languages, and I love teaching Portuguese,
so why not? If there are two things I love in my life, they are teaching and playing video games.
When we think about studying, when we think about learning,
we always think of it as something opposite or as something contrary to the act of having fun.
And I'm here to show you that there is a theoretical basis that can give us a
slightly different direction or position in relation to this. And I turned this presentation
into a podcast episode, you can listen too. It was a pleasure to participate in this lecture,
I met many other Portuguese teachers from all over the world, I made many contacts there and exchanged
many ideas with people who are incredible in the area of ​​teaching Portuguese as a foreign language.
I was very happy to be part of this conference, which is something very
important for our teachers within the P community. And going back to YouTube now,
remember? We started the month with 1900 subscribers, 1921 subscribers, and we ended the month of June
with 2616 subscribers. It was like, what? What do you mean, in a month? I think I had more new signups than I had
in the entire previous year. It was like really, really absurd. I remember waking up in the morning,
seeing the notifications, and being shocked by the number of new subscribers,
comments, and messages I was receiving during the month of June.
Because of all this interaction, because of all the engagement this video caused,
I met the requirements to become a YouTube partner, which is a very difficult thing for
someone just starting out on YouTube. I remember that, when I looked at the numbers, which if
I'm not mistaken are 4,000 hours of watch time, hours watched, and 1,000 subscribers, I thought: 'My God,
I'll never reach that number. This is impossible. There aren't that many people watching my channel,
there aren't that many people following me, or that many people interested in learning Portuguese
with comprehensible input or crazy things that even I don't like doing. I'll never achieve that,
but that's okay. My YouTube channel is just a side project, a hobby. I don't need
to reach those numbers. I'm going to continue making my videos without that goal,
because otherwise it adds unnecessary pressure to content creation. And I
'm a very perfectionist, I don't like doing things in a hurry just to meet
a number or something like that. So on June 26th, my channel was monetized.
a number or something like that. So on June 26th, my channel was monetized.
In other words, I became a YouTube partner, and that meant a lot of new things,
which you now have access to, like these wonderful emojis,
early access to videos when I publish them here on YouTube, and access to
special group classes for YouTube members who choose the Club Member Tier. Anyway,
all these things didn't exist before, they weren't available to me as a
content creator, and from the moment they became available, I was like, 'Oh my God,
now my YouTube channel, it's become an official channel. ? What do you mean, not before?'
I didn't have the goal of dedicating so much time to YouTube stuff, because I teach and make
money teaching, but because of that, new opportunities related to YouTube started
to become more tangible, more realistic, easier to get as a small channel,
a little potato here on YouTube. And it was because of this that I made some decisions,
and with the channel monetized, I started offering these things that I mentioned now, which are benefits for
YouTube members. If you're watching this retrospective and think: 'Hmm, cool,
I'd like to help, I'd like to support Luan and the Teach Yourself Portuguese project',
you can become a member here on YouTube by clicking 'Become a member ' or 'Join',
if you use it in English, and you will have access to these benefits.
I'm very happy with the possibility of making YouTube a source of income too,
after all, I don't make money from videos, I make money from classes. And when
I make money here, I invest all the money back into video editing, paying Bruno,
buying equipment for the videos and trying to further improve the quality of my videos
and the quality of my content so that you can continue learning Portuguese without pay anything if
you don't want to or can't. It's not a problem. You support me by watching, commenting, sharing
too. But obviously now I have that possibility, because that's the goal of most
people who start a channel: to become a partner or monetize the channel. So, maybe the reason why
my channel became an official YouTube channel was not because of Portuguese students.
It was because of the Brazilians. Perhaps. But even so, I still think it was something worthwhile.
And now, because of that, we have more reach, the ability to offer things. Continuing,
we ended the year, we ended the month of June with 2600 subscribers,
and we started the month of July with 2685, ending with 3,586.
July is my birthday month, and I was very happy because it was the first time I had
the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my community. This community was created
little by little throughout the year, and I was honored to share my birthday with you. It was
an incredible experience being able to celebrate my birthday with all of you. Now,
let's talk about July. July was, look, scarier than the month of June. Once again,
in one month, I had more subscribers than I had in a year on the channel. There were a lot of new people arriving on the channel,
a lot of new people subscribing and a lot of people interacting with the content of 'Teach Yourself
Portuguese' for the first time. That was incredible, and I was very happy. As I said before,
not everyone came through Portuguese; some came for analysis. Again,
I don't think that's the focus of my channel. I wouldn't want this to be the north
of my channel. So it was part of my channel, but it doesn't define the direction of my channel.
In July, something that really impacted me was that I received a box. Uhum, you know what I'm
talking about, this box in this video. Slatka, my dear friend, sent me this box,
which turned into a video here on the channel because this box was a birthday gift.
In addition to the box, she also made me a cake. Obviously, I couldn't eat the cake. I don't think
it's a good idea to send a cake from Germany to Brazil. Maybe it won't arrive, or maybe it will arrive and
it's not a good idea to eat the cake afterwards. But, anyway, I was very happy with the affection
and attention I received from all of you on my birthday. When I stop to think, I feel a lot of
gratitude at the idea that maybe some are my students, others are not, but people who
are not part of my social circle interact with me, like me and show affection
to me on my birthday. That was really cool, the first time it happened, and I was very happy.
So in July, in addition to the YouTube gift of many new subscribers, the gifts of
birthday and the celebration of my birthday, including on Discord, which in July celebrated
one year of existence. If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's a video showing it too.
Another video for you to watch. Discord is nothing more than a community where you,
who are learning Portuguese, can be part of a group of people who are also learning,
who share materials, like to chat sometimes in Portuguese, sometimes in another language,
and who You're just looking for a community, a safe place on the internet where you can chat,
practice and meet people who are learning Portuguese,
and have fun. This community is like a special little place on the internet for you,
where you don't have to worry about the rest of the internet, so to speak,
and enjoy learning Portuguese, because it is very important to learn Portuguese.
The Teacher Yourself Portuguese Discord had its one year anniversary, and I had my
33rd. Another absurd thing that started in July: the first edition of the club. Intermediate Club
and Beginner Club are the classes I prepare once a month for my
YouTube members and for people who supported the channel through Ko-fi. These classes are structured,
where we analyze music in Portuguese and we will also analyze other types of media
and Brazilian audiovisual productions in the future. We do a class where we explore vocabulary,
cultural aspects and the meaning behind some of these songs,
which only with a Brazilian to explain, you will really be able to understand. It's a
class obviously focused on you learning the grammatical part, yes, but mainly the
cultural part, the part that only makes sense to Brazilians. But you can also understand.
The first edition of this class took place on July 22nd, and this once again marked a
very big thing on my channel, a very big thing in my 'Teach Yourself Portuguese' project,
because it made me give more and more Priority for YouTube stuff over
my classes. So, this balance between three weeks of classes and one week of YouTube
has become very, very important for me as a teacher, and I am very happy with the results
we have achieved so far. I thank everyone who has participated in the clubs and who has
taken part in these classes because they are so much fun and even if you become a member,
you now have access to all the other classes that have already taken place. So, each year that passes,
you will have access to 24 recorded classes: 12 Beginner Club classes and 12
Intermediate Club classes. This is part of the benefits of being a supporter here on YouTube.
July was amazing! We ended up with 3,586 subscribers. A lot of people,
my God! At this time of year, you can do the calculation. We had already
doubled the channel size from 15.00 in January to 3,586 in July. So,
in half a year, we had already doubled in size. So it was bizarre in a good way.
And then, let's move on to the month of August. August was a month where Clarissa, my fiancée,
graduated from university. She finished her animation design course. She is responsible
for these wonderful emojis here, and she is also responsible for drawing
this story for this video here at HQ. You've already watched this video after the retrospective,
obviously. And Clarissa graduated from university. Congratulations to Clarissa!
We were living elsewhere because of Clarissa's University,
We were living elsewhere because of Clarissa's University,
so her graduation was something very important for our personal life, as you will see in
a moment. That made a big difference too. From 3,590 subscribers at the beginning of August,
we went to 3,732 at the end, that is, that peak of new subscribers decreased and returned
to normal as it was before, and in a slightly less intense, slightly less crazy way.
But speaking of crazy, I decided to do this to my hair in August. So,
it was something remarkable for me. I always saw it as Cruella-like and I was thinking:
'Would it be interesting if I had hair like that? Maybe, why not?' And I decided to do it,
and I still have this hairstyle/hair color to this day because I really liked it. Then,
is something relevant to me in the 2023 retrospective.
But one thing that was very important to me, and which is one of the reasons why I
managed to hire Bruno and can pay for editing his videos, is that Kof,
who is the other platform through which I receive support from you, from subscribers,
closed for a year. So, in August, it was a year since I received my first
contribution at Kof. Saraí, thank you very much for the coffee, thank you very much for the tea,
grandma. After a year of receiving contributions and support from you, I am very happy once again
to know that my content has value to the point that people interested in learning Portuguese
can contribute to this continuing to happen, without me having to pay out of my pocket, invest
money from my classes, investing my own money, oh, so that the YouTube channel works.
So, I always imagined the 'Teach Yourself Portuguese' community as being the owners of the channel,
and that's why I always ask you and share with you things that are
big and relevant, because you define the path of the channel. I'm just the person
who creates videos and comes up with crazy ideas according to your interests. I am very
happy with all the support from people who believe in my work and who
allow me to take a week off from my classes, without receiving tuition money,
but making videos for YouTube and still being able to make these videos without any problems. So,
thank you very much to all Ko-fi supporters. And let's talk about September.
Regarding registrants, September started with 3,738 registrants and ended with 3,883. So,
we returned to the channel’s normal subscriber rhythm. But I woke up one day and read this email here,
talking a little about my life as a teacher. I was invited to be one of the first
teachers to teach group classes on the platform where I work, which is the Italk platform. For
me, it was an incredibly important invitation, because it shows that within the platform,
among Portuguese teachers, at least I was considered one of the best options to
take this test with this new Italk function. At the moment, I teach group classes on Italk. Also,
you can take a class with me individually, like a class like just you and me,
or a group class. To see what the classes are, what the schedules are, how much it costs,
how often, you can click on the link in the description and become my
Portuguese or English student on the Italk platform. So, I was very happy with this news.
I was very happy with the invitation, and it once again changed a bit of the dynamics
of how I organize my work and my work week. In September,
I also had an idea that was 100% inspired by one of my favorite streamers on Twitch,
which is Iri. She makes a weekly movie with her channel subscribers, and I decided to copy it,
why not? Basically, I had the idea: 'What if I made a little film like she does,
but about Brazilian films or with themes that are interesting to my subscribers who
are learning Portuguese? Ah, to watch and discuss and learn and explore.' And
that's exactly what I did in September, in the first edition of Cineminha 'Teach Yourself
Portuguese'. To participate in the next editions (and this will continue to happen),
it was really cool. I thought it was a very interesting experience. You don't need to pay anything
to participate. We just go on Discord, watch a movie, talk about the movie
in real time while watching the movie, and eat popcorn in the Discord chat. So, if you
want to watch films with me and the 'Teach Yourself Portuguese' community, you can join
Discord and watch Brazilian films on many different themes. Just click on the link in the description.
In addition to this interaction with the community, there was something that happened in September...
From September to October, anyone who is subscribed to the channel knows what I'm talking about. One of
my best friends, one of my students, one of my best students,
maybe, I don't know, but a person who became very special to me,
visited me. Um, Kohvah is running, I don't know why she's running.
Hi, yes, in September, Nicole, better known as 'Kohvah' in the live chat and on Discord,
came to Brazil and visited me. It was really cool, we did this live together.
If you haven't watched it, watch it after the retrospective celebrating 4 years
of the 'Teach Yourself Portuguese' channel. But that happened in October, so I'll get to that in a moment.
We did a lot of things together, and it was really fun to meet Kohvah in person.
It was a pleasure to meet someone who found me because of my classes and
became my friend because of them. She ended up becoming a very, very important person,
who helps and supports me a lot inside and outside of classes, on the YouTube channel, on Discord, on Twitch,
anywhere. Kohvah is one of my best friends, and I'm very happy to have
had the opportunity to meet her in person. This really, really marked the year 2023.
Before talking about October, in September, too,
my first live was a year old. In other words, if you want to see what my first live was like,
how nervous I was and how my way of doing live changed nowadays, you can watch the
first live on the channel. Just to add a mention to this, but it has improved a lot.
In my opinion, this answer is simple. Brazil is a gigantic country. In October,
again, we started with 3,889 subscribers, reaching 4,389 at the
end of the month. First of all, 4,000 people subscribed to my channel, absurd,
completely absurd. I can't imagine 4,000 people in one place,
let alone 4,000 people watching me. It's bizarre, completely bizarre.
But in October, I did a live broadcast celebrating the channel's 4th anniversary with the very special participation
of Nicole. You can watch this live here. In addition to receiving an extremely special visit,
I went to São Paulo for the first time, and I didn't go alone. Nicole and Clarissa went
with me to participate in an event called BGS, which is an event focused on video games,
basically, one of the things that I really like, as you already know.
It was incredible to be in such a big city that, along with Rio de Janeiro, is one of the references
when we think about Brazil. São Paulo is a gigantic city, with a lot of people, a lot of things,
and an intensity in everything that is a little too much for me. Maybe I'm not used to
so much happening at the same time, so I think I'm calmer, I like a
small city better, maybe I don't appreciate as much craziness as it is in São Paulo. However, this trip to
São Paulo wasn't just amazing because of the BGS event. It was incredible because I got to know São
Paulo, participated in video game events, even played in this simulator here,
and met who I just mentioned before, my favorite streamer on Twitch, Iryiella.
It was incredible to meet Iriella and many other people that I only knew because of Twitch,
or that I met through Twitch. All these people meet online daily on the
Twitch platform. I have a project for 2024 that involves Twitch streamers, and obviously, Iriella
and Anne, you will be the first guest, you already know that. Anyway, I had the pleasure
of meeting people that I only knew online before, like Márcio, Iane, Finha, Leon,
of meeting people that I only knew online before, like Márcio, Iane, Finha, Leon,
and all the people I knew by name in chat or as streamers on the computer screen.
This trip was very, very special for me, and I am very grateful to have had the
opportunity to meet these people. They are not only part of my life as a teacher,
my professional life, my life as a content creator here on YouTube,
but in some way, they inspire me, motivate me and make me want to create
the best content possible for you, who are subscribers here on my channel.
So, I'm very happy to have had this opportunity,
and I hope it wasn't the last. I would love to continue having these
meetings and the opportunity to travel and meet more places and people,
like I did in October 2023, which was an incredible month. It was intense, but it was so worth it.
After this trip, or before the trip, I think, I had my 12th little meeting. If you don't know,
in addition to the things members have access to by paying or contributing, and Kof supporters
have access by contributing, I also like doing free things. Anyone who
watches my channel can participate in a more intimate way, in a less disconnected way,
like video. Basically, the way I found to do this is through encounters,
which are free meetups. You don't need to pay or be a supporter to participate. In them,
channel subscribers participate in a call with video or without video, it is not important,
and we always practice Portuguese with a topic and some pre-established questions for you
to prepare. It's been over a year, and we're going to our 14th edition, I think, of get-togethers.
It would be a pleasure to have you participate in the next one, so I look forward to your participation.
Also in October, in the midst of all this madness of traveling to São Paulo, meeting people I
admire, going to a huge video game event, I received messages and was
invited to contribute some audios for the master's degree of a professor who I really admire
Adriana Garzon. She was doing her master's degree, and my voice and Clarissa's voice were used
as study material for this master's degree. So, in addition to all the things I did in October,
I also participated in a project by a teacher that I really admire, and I'm very happy to have
contributed to it. October was crazy, very intense, there was a lot happening.
But let's talk about the month of November. Once again, in terms of subscribers, we started with 4,042
and ended with 4,146, a normal pace. That's it! I don't know if you noticed,
but I'm no longer in the same place I was in the old videos or in the videos
you've already watched. Clarissa and I moved to the city where we lived before. Is it worth
moving while I continue working? What do you mean, is it worth it? I have no choice,
and I don't know, but when I have big changes in my life, I like to record those big
changes in some way. I decided to register with this tattoo that is now completely erased.
This tattoo was one of my strange ways of recording this big change in my life.
This tattoo, specifically, is very special to me, because it marks the change, but also
because the handwriting you see here is the handwriting of Luísa, my student. That Luí from the video, from this
video here, from the video of Luísa's package, of Luísa's kimono. Luísa was the person who wrote
this in her handwriting and created this special tattoo for me. I was very happy. Thank you very much, Luisa.
There will be a video about this on the channel too, because, why not, right? This other tattoo
has a slightly more abstract meaning. But I can explain this in another video too.
New things, a new stage in our life starting after moving house.
But before the change happened, I was invited once again to another lecture. This
talk took place on the Gen Group channel, and was on the topic of entertainment. If
we were a game character, I would imagine it like this: we start as a teacher, okay,
go there, take a course, enter university, "wow, I want to teach, I want to be a teacher",
okay, we are a level five teacher at that time. This is a topic
that I was learning about as I was creating videos for my channel,
and I was very happy to be able to share what I learned and the things I know how to do with
other PLE (Portuguese as a Foreign Language) teachers. or teachers in general
who would like to know more about how to make a class interactive, fun and interesting,
using technological resources, or sometimes not even using technological resources.
If you want to watch this full talk,
you can also click on this link here. It's not a video from the Teach Yourself Portuguese channel,
but I can turn it into a podcast if you find it interesting.
I wanted to share with you that I moved, got tattoos, and will be getting three more tattoos
in December. This video is being filmed in December, so you won't see the tattoos
now, but you probably will in the future. They are more special tattoos written by
special people. I don't know why, but I like tattoos with words. I do not have any
tattoos with drawings, I only have tattoos with words, because I don't know, I like words.
And finally, we arrive at the month of December. In the month of December, I completed 3,000 classes on
Italki. I can't even imagine, I can't even understand that number when I say it out loud
. But I have already given more than 3,000 classes on the Italki platform. As you already know,
the Teach Yourself Portuguese channel was my side project, and little by little it became
more and more a priority for my work or my life. But,
obviously, my main role continues to be as a Portuguese and English teacher.
Having reached these 3,000 classes completed on Italki, with a maximum rating of five stars
in all of them, with 100% positive evaluations and lots of positive feedback, as you can see
here or there on the It page, is an immense pleasure for me. I managed to transform something I love,
which is teaching, especially teaching languages, into my work and what I do for a living.
I honestly can't imagine doing anything else right now. I've worked in
other jobs, done other things in my life, had other experiences,
and I'm very happy to be able to transform this into my work officially, both on
Italki and here on YouTube as a content creator for those of you who are learning Portuguese.
Speaking of which, we've reached over 200 members on Discord. If you
're not a member yet, you can become one on Discord, it's free. As a member of Discord,
you have access to everything that happens before things actually happen or are
published on YouTube. Probably because I always disclose everything there before
doing or publishing things here. Feel free to be part of this community.
Going back to the numbers, we started December with 4,147 subscribers, and we will end with... I don't know.
And it doesn't matter and it's not relevant. Where did I want to go with this retrospective? We started January
with 1,530 subscribers, and now, at the end of 2023, we have already increased, we have already doubled the size
of the channel and a little more, and half more. I'm terrible with numbers and proportions,
so I don't know, but the point is that this number doesn't mean anything. The number is not important.
He was important for me to become a YouTube partner channel, yes, he was important,
but other than that, I don't care. I don't care about the number of subscribers on the channel.
What really makes sense to me, and makes me want to get here and make more
videos, go live, create interesting content for those of you who are learning Portuguese,
are your comments, interactions, messages, and participation. at get-togethers, at
Discord events, at clubs, everywhere else. Without you, Teach Yourself Portuguese does not exist.
And when I say "you", I'm not talking to 4,000 and something. I'm talking to
each and every one of you who actually uses the material as a way to study and who
is truly part of this community. Because, after all, you are the people who
encourage me and motivate me to continue making videos for the channel. And, obviously,
encourage me and motivate me to continue making videos for the channel. And, obviously,
I'll keep making videos as long as there are people to watch, otherwise there's no point, I guess, right?
Maybe this video was a bit for myself, because I would like to record what the
year 2023 was like. But anyway, I would like to thank you once again for all your support,
for all your participation, for all your encouragement . When I say "support",
I'm not talking about people who are paying. I'm talking about support with comments,
with shares, with words of encouragement and with the positive feedback you give me,
with the cool ideas you give me and with all the interaction that we
can create together within the Teach Yourself Portuguese community.
Because the idea, as the name suggests, is for you to learn Portuguese alone,
using the material that I create and make available to you. It's a pleasure to be here on the other side,
creating this material for you. As I say in my channel description, Teach Yourself
Portuguese is the Portuguese channel I would like to find if I were learning Portuguese
as a foreign language. That is, I try to do things that I would like to find too,
things that I find relevant, interesting, useful and fun, because, right, why not?
Thank you so much for being part of this, for being part of this project, being part of this
journey. And I would like to hope that your 2024 is full of health, happiness,
good things happening, and a little bit of Portuguese and a little bit of home theme,
because you know, we need to practice to improve. But seriously, much,
much love to you. I hope everything you want comes true, and I hope
you achieve everything you want in 2024. It's been a pleasure sharing 2023 with you.
I don't know what will happen next year, but it doesn't matter; I will continue making the
best Portuguese videos the internet has ever seen for people who are learning Portuguese.
I hope you continue to have fun with the content and continue learning and improving your
Portuguese. I'm happy with everything I shared from January to December.
I recently looked at a Spotify auto-generated retrospective of my podcast,
and I was shocked by the numbers. You can see here: my podcast has had a huge reach
this year, becoming very relevant to many people in many different countries. For me,
this is also a pleasure, being able to reach people through YouTube with videos,
through Spotify with podcasts, through the website with transcriptions,
through classes. Anyway, it's a pleasure to be able to contribute and create this opportunity for people
to learn Portuguese by studying alone, studying for themselves, you know, "teaching themselves".
Anyway, don't forget to turn on notifications here on YouTube to receive notifications about
new videos. I have many projects to get off the ground in 2024, so I recommend that
you turn on notifications here on YouTube to receive all of this. I also invite you to join
Discord to find out and interact with these news before everyone else.
If you want to support my channel, you can become a member here on YouTube or
buy a cup of tea or coffee on Ko-fi. But you don't have to,
it's only if you want to help. You already help by watching, sharing and commenting,
and I thank you once again from the bottom of my heart. You are the reason I make content on the
internet. I love you (parasocially perhaps). There's a podcast about this on the channel too.
Thank you very much to all the channel members:
guys, that's it! Now I'm going to open this as it's already cold. Look, look, look,
look. And I'll see you in the next video. Bye, it's going to be fine, it's going to be fine. Happy New Year!
I'm not even pretending it's New Year right now. My God in heaven, it came out, how scary! Just push. Yes,
just push, my God, I almost died from my heart, daughter. Poor thing! What a scare, poor thing!
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