Carlos Alberto Afonso

Carlos Alberto Afonso is a Brazilian, Portuguese, Italian and German citizen. He lives in Germany and spends long periods in Brazil. He has taught Portuguese at Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), to doctoral students and to scientists in a cluster of excellence; at the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt), to diplomats posted to Brazil and to the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa; and in Germany's public adult education network (Volkshochschule), to the most varied audience there is.

He has been a teaching consultant for the publisher Klett (Klett Verlag) and is an examiner for the telc Portuguese B1 exam (The European Language Certificates). With the support of the Auswärtiges Amt, he has travelled fifteen times to the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa to research the varieties of Portuguese. In 2026 he received a Motion of Praise and Recognition from the Rio de Janeiro City Council.

He studied communication in Brazil and, in Germany, foreign-language teaching and adult education, with further training in Portuguese as a foreign language at the University of Porto, Portugal.