July, 2010
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Jul 10
Meet Luciana de Souza
Luciana with a statue of Maradona, Argetina's most famous soccer player.
Luciana de Souza is our resident Brazilian. Born in Salvador, Bahia in northeastern Brazil, she came to Buenos Aires, Argentina two years ago to learn Spanish and do a postgraduate program in Latin American Literature. After teaching Portuguese for a time, Luciana joined the Educaedu team in March of 2009.
In the office, Luciana is the Content Manager for Brazil and Portugal. Anything we need to do in Portuguese, Luciana is there to help us out, including lengthy translations and communications with clients and customers. She also handles our account on Orkut (a Facebook-esque site that is incredibly popular in Brazil). So if you want to say hi or make a comment, you can visit her by clicking here.
Luciana loves Argentina, but for her, Brazil is the best country in the world and no one can convince her otherwise (believe me, we’ve tried!). She will eventually return, but for now she will be at Educaedu, cooking, dancing, and laughing with her workmates who try to speak Portuguese with her.
Favorite food: Cozido – A Brazilian stew made with meat and vegetables.
Favorite author: Jorge Amado – a modern Brazilian writer
Best class ever taken: Arabic Dance Workshop – it only lasted 4 hours but she learned a lot about the culture and history behind the practice
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Jul 10
Sports Commentator – Course of the Week
We are a week away from the FIFA World Cup 2010 finals, an amazing and memorable experience we will never forget. From the early days of radio sports broadcasting, people have watched and listened to games and reacted with various emotions. Depending on the event, the sports commentator’s tone of voice rises and falls creating a great deal of excitement for viewers. The World Cup would be nothing without sports commentators. HA! I dare to say football wouldn’t be successful without sports commentators at all! If you are a sport enthusiast, you have an excellent memory, a strong audio voice and you have an ability to relate to an audience and provide them with interesting comments, this career might just be for you!
Your main responsibility in this job will be to explain the sport to the listeners, engage them by making the game into an exciting event, broadcast live commentary, interview players and coaches and sometimes you may even be required to travel around the world to cover all the games being broadcast (including the FIFA World Cup with a VIP pass!).
Although there is no standard educational route for becoming a sports commentator, most sports commentators have a university or college degree in journalism, physical education or broadcasting.
This might be your exemplary education path:
Bachelor in Broadcast Journalism at Lewis University in Illinois, USA
Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting at Edith Cowan University in Perth , Australia
Post Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education in Great Grimsby, UK
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Reference : www.schoolsintheusa.com