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Ask HN: Anyone from Brazil? I need your help

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I am working on a project to expand educational reach and quality in Brazil. I need the help of a Brazilian to help me understand the whole picture and to help translate our website into Portuguese.

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Reposting a comment from marcofloriano who seems to be hellbanned (you can see the whole comment by enabling the option "show dead"):

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I´m Brazilian. I have an online education startup for web designers and i´m working really hard trying to get education better here. My english is not very good, but we could meet at skype, if you want.

(Just curiosity, I'm from Argentina.)

Why Brazil? Why not another country?

Which level of education? Kids / secondary students / university students

IMHO it's very difficult to improve the education without a deep knowledge of the local culture and mores. Good luck.

The short version: I've been reading a lot about the World Cup and why locals didn't want it despite their devotion to football, it inspired me. The semifinal game made it that much more urgent as the country now feels like they lost a war.

I would like to expand the program into all of Latin America once we "fine tune" our ideas.

I'm sure it is, that is exactly why I want to find some natives to work with.

I hope Argentina wins today, no one is giving this team enough credit. Messi is great but there are a lot of other playmakers on this XI.

I'm brazilian and have interest in education and respect for people who tries to change education, I'm not exactly in the area, but got a bunch of friends that are and maybe I can help you.

Just followed you in twitter, fell free to pm me there.

I lived in Brazil recently. Their gov't doesn't support primary public education at all. I can also tell you where you can reach out to many Brazilians freely.

What was living in Brazil like?

That's what I read too. It is sad, Brazil could be so much greater if it truly supported it's people.

Where can I do that?

I am Indian, my country's problems are very similar.

I'm new to this site, are there private messages?

No. But sometimes you can message somebody privately by clicking at their name and viewing their e-mail, Twitter, etc.

Also, if you want others to contact you, make sure you include the information in the 'about' section' since the e-mail field isn't shown publicly.

email me at AmarPatel1290@gmail.com

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