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The School of Polish Language and Culture at the University of Silesia since 2012 has set up a program for enhancing the education of teachers of Polish at the University of Paraná in Curitiba, where in 1871 the first Polish and largest organized settlement of Poles in Brazil is recognized. The author instructs Polish language courses in groups of 30 students in 2017, and the following article arises from the observations, conversations, and questionnaires distributed to the group of Polish teaching instructors in Brazil, as well as individuals planning to teach Polish in the future. The majority of trainees due to their Polish roots do not consider Polish as a foreign language.