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Wilian Fernandes Pereira has spent nearly eight years inside Brazil's diplomatic machinery and more than twenty-eight working in language acquisition. The course comes out of both.
From 2005 to 2013 he was a Chancery Officer at Itamaraty, Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That's where he learned how the country's institutions actually work from the inside — the protocol, the paperwork, the meeting that decides nothing and the phone call that decides everything.
The rest of those years went into schools, group classes, private tuition and consulting — including English for Specific Purposes, built around what one profession actually needs. He taught at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília's traditional binational centre, and holds a philosophy degree from Unicamp.
He speaks Spanish, French, English and Portuguese, with Italian and Hindi at a beginner's level — a polite way of saying he knows what it feels like to be the worst speaker in the room.
Since 2020 he has worked with expatriates in Brasília: diplomats, executives and their families, one to one or in groups of four. That work became the Anahytec Method and the course you're reading about.
- Chancery Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs — 2005 to 2013
- Teacher at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília
- Philosophy, Unicamp
- Twenty-eight years in language acquisition — schools, groups, private tuition, consulting
- English for Specific Purposes, built around a profession's real demands
- Author of eight books
- Based in Brasília
- Videos on YouTube
- The method behind the course
Two things most language teachers can't offer.
He's been on the other side of the counter
The cartório, the residence paperwork, the way a Brazilian office says no without saying no. Eight years inside the ministry is a different kind of preparation from a textbook chapter on bureaucracy.
He's been the foreigner too
Six languages at different depths, including two he's still bad at. The course is designed by someone who remembers the specific humiliation of understanding a question and not being able to answer it.