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I work with the indigenous languages of South America. From time to time, I travel to a village in Bolivia in order to document the Chiquitano language. I love everything that has to do with languages, science, jazz, Latin America and vegetables, but you don't have to fancy any of those to hit me up, good conversations often happen unexpectedly :).

Trabalho com as línguas indígenas da América do Sul. De vez em quando eu viajo a uma aldeia no meio da Bolívia para documentar a língua do povo Chiquitano. Amo línguas, ciências puras, jazz, a diversidade da América Latina e vegetais, mas a verdade é que eu gosto muito de trocar ideia inclusive com o pessoal com quem não tenho muitos interesses em comum. Só me deixo levar :).

[Aliás, gosto bastante de discutir com quem pensa diferente de mim, mas não aceitarei passação de pano para regimes autocráticos na minha frente (principalmente os de Nicolás Maduro/Hugo Chávez, Jair Bolsonaro, Evo Morales, Vladimir Putin e toda a corja da União Soviética).]

Ah, and also I am vegetarian... which is unlikely to cause any problems, though.

Feel free to write me requests in any of the languages listed on my profile.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have been surfing a lot and hosting folks from time to time. Meeting for coffee or a drink once in a while. And I persuaded some friends of mine to join, nobody has regretted so far. :)

I have joined CouchSurfing in June 2010. I have surfed couches in a number of countries, which has been a fabulous experience, and I've been hosting CS folks and lots of random friends' friends from time to time ever since. Unfortunately, my current place in Brasília is not very well equipped (this means sleeping on the floor -- but we also sleep on the floor for the time being), but don't hesitate to hit me up if you are not very picky, I enjoy hosting very much!

Surfed through CS:
Sergey and Yuri in Brest, Belarus
Sergey and Ira in Minsk, Belarus
Marko in Belgrade, Serbia
Malle in Tartu, Estonia
Eveli in Tallinn, Estonia
Madara in Riga, Latvia
Milena in Kaunas, Lithuania
Martina in Poprad, Slovakia
Felipe in Graz, Austria
Linus in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Majlo in Maribor, Slovenia
István in Budapest, Hungary
Szintia in Budapest, Hungary
Ivandro in Lisbon, Portugal
Filipa and Andreia in Coimbra, Portugal
André in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Pedro in Braga, Portugal
Michael in Vanadzor, Armenia
Joana and others in Valparaíso, Chile
Christofer in Valparaíso, Chile
Rodrigo in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leonardo in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Olga in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Fabiana in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (unintentionally)
Dalmo and Milana in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Emilly in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Mariana in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Matheus and others in São Paulo, Brazil (having met previously)
Lena and Sasha in Belgrade, Serbia
Maja and Gagy in Zagreb, Croatia
Valeri in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alek in Niš, Serbia
Yevgeni in Manila, the Philippines
Graham in Cebu, the Philippines
Farshid in Baku, Azerbaijan
Gerald in Tbilisi, Georgia
Ismail in Trabzon, Turkey
Laura and Ernesto in Caracas, Venezuela
Edward in Mérida, Venezuela
Danny in Bogotá, Colombia
Sebastián in Jamundí (close to Cali), Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Xavier in Quito, Ecuador
Juan Carlos in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Rubens in La Paz, Bolivia
Luiz in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
Gabriel in Caracas, Venezuela (maaany times)
Silva in Zürich, Switzerland
Vicenzo in Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Éline in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Héloïse in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Rosa in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Géssica in Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Nikolaï in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Slava in Kyiv, Ukraine
Samuel in Oslo, Norway
Cindy in Göteborg, Sweden
Tomek in Copenhagen, Denmark
Bernardo in Hamburg, Germany
Lale in Vienna, Austria
Olia in Nižni Novgorod, Russia
Or in Tel Aviv, Israel
Ari in Jerusalem, Israel
Arseny and Raviv in Tel Aviv, Israel
Danni in Ngomane, Swaziland
Natasha in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Anna and her family in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Blaise Pascal in Ruyenzi, Rwanda
Eskedar in Kampala, Uganda
Herbert in Kisumu, Kenya
Jesús in Havana, Cuba
Çağdaş in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Hanni in Turku, Finland
Ale in Turin, Italy
Bilel in Lyon, France
Baptiste in Lyon, France
Piotrek in Kraków, Poland (had hosted him in Moscow)
Kata in Szeged, Hungary
Gregorio in Budapest, Hungary
Einar in Reykjavík, Iceland
Cami and Cristián in Santiago, Chile
Stasia in Punta Arenas, Chile
Ohmar in Puerto Montt, Chile
Amir and Dana in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alexander in Trieste, Italy
Przemek and Justyna in Słupsk, Poland

Hosted through CS:
Jonas and Andreas from Denmark
Chris from Belgium
Linus from Germany (had hosted me in Ljubljana)
Felipe from Brazil
Agnès from France and Timur from Russia
Dalmo (had hosted me in João Pessoa), Murilo and Heitor from Brazil
Jakub and his friend from Poland
Cauê and Douglas from Brazil
Paula from Brazil
Pavle from Serbia
Sandra from Peru
Philippe and Romain from France
Gabriel from Brazil
Manuel and Agustín from Uruguay
Luan from Brazil
Farshid from Iran (had hosted me in Baku)
Miłosz, Piotrek and Mateusz from Poland
Marikki and Venla from Finland
Orçun from Turkey
Dimitri from Belgium
Charmaine from Hong Kong and Thomas from France
Peter from Slovakia
Marco from Switzerland (having met previously)
Alejandra from Ecuador

Interests

countries: Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Georgia, Poland, Finland, Chile, Serbia, Croatia, Armenia

activities: listening to music (see below), composing and performing music, doing research, traveling, hitchhiking, hanging out with friends, sleeping, translating, acting spontaneously

fields of knowledge: linguistics, indigenous languages of South America, astronomy, geography

• vegetarian
• traveling
• music
• piano
• astronomy
• geography
• languages
• hitchhiking
• latin america
• indigenous languages

Music, Movies, and Books

genres:
Venezuelan music (onda nueva, joropo, gaitas, Venezuelan waltzes), Brazilian music (MPB, tropicália, rock nacional, bossa nova, samba-canção, forró, carimbó), nueva canción chilena, Southern African music, jazz, Broadway musicals

some most important artists:
Adoniran Barbosa, Adriana Calcanhotto, Aldemaro Romero, Alí Primera, Alípio Martins, Andrzej Bogucki, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Ariel Ramírez, Baden Powell, Betty Hutton, Carlos Lyra, Carmen Miranda, Cartola, Cazuza, Charles Trenet, Charlie Parker, Chico Buarque, Cole Porter, Cyro Monteiro, Desorden Público, Dizzy Gillespie, Dorival Caymmi, Dorothy Masuka, Elis Regina, Elizeth Cardoso, Evencio Castellanos, Frédéric Chopin, George Brassens, George Gershwin, Gerry Mulligan, Gilberto Gil, Hijos de Ña Carmen, Irving Berlin, Исаак Дунаевский, Joe Pass, John Williams, Liisi Koikson, Los Guaraguao, Luiz Eça, Mari Jürjens, María Teresa Chacín, Marjana Deržaj, Medio Evo, Mercedes Sosa, Mia Žnidarič, Mihaela Oancea, Miriam Makeba, Nara Leão, Николай Капустин, ნინო ქათამაძე, Novos Baianos, Os Mutantes, Oscar Castro-Neves, Oscar Peterson, Roberto Menescal, Сергей Рахманинов, Super Eagles, Sylvia Telles, Tamás Deák, Tiemponuevo, Víctor Jara

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxRe0G29JAv5IoSFymG24w
http://www.youtube.com/user/ojovemlouco
http://www.lastfm.com.br/user/ojovemlouco

I'm not an avid movie goer, but still I enjoy some particular movies:

Cheila: Una casa pa' maíta, De cómo Anita Camacho quiso levantarse a Marino Méndez, Y tu mamá también, Un cuento chino, Annie Get Your Gun, My Fair Lady, De-Lovely, E.T., Seksmisja, Orfeu Negro, Central do Brasil, Un homme et une femme, Ratatouille, Up!, Klass.

I don't read too much, but I definitely love the Harry Potter series :).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moved to Tbilisi (Georgia) to finish my thesis.
Moved to Caracas (Venezuela) to find love.
Moved to São Paulo (Brazil) to live a life.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Portuguese or Russian as a foreign language. I can tell you loads of things about Caracas, the Crimea or Brazil, as well as show you all the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere. I can show you how to play Venezuelan cuatro or piano :).

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Finland, Georgia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Venezuela

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