This month we spoke to Joaquim de Assis, a 48-year-old farmer living in a town close to Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Joaquim was fortunate to have had a good education unlike many of his farming peers, although he didn't get the opportunity to study English while at school. He studied agriculture at university and during his foundation year he took a basic English course. Since then, he has enrolled on a number of refresher courses at his local community centre.

This is what he had to say about his use of English.

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