Hi! We hope you find this area of The Choro Forum useful. The whole point of the forum (and Choro Camp, and The Choro Shop) is to make it easier for people outside of Brazil, especially those of us who don't speak Portuguese, to get into playing choro. The music is challenging enough without a bunch of unnecessary hurdles!

To that end, I highly recommend that you work with a teacher who has a deep background in choro, especially at the beginning of your choro studies. Choro has always been, and remains, an oral tradition. It's great to have a skilled player of whom you can ask questions, from whom you can get feedback, etc. And since many of the teachers you'll find here are Brazilians, there's an element of cultural exchange -- better known as friendship -- that can be deeply enriching for all involved.

Two quick, but important points:

1. We don't vet the teachers here, at least not from the outset. So we're not vouching for them, although students who have studied with them are welcome to do so. 
2. If and when the list of teachers here gets long, we suggest search for the kind of teacher you are looking for by using tags such as "guitar teacher", "cavaquinho teacher", etc. If you don't find what you're looking for right away, try tweaking the tag: use "bowed string teacher" instead of "violin teacher", for example.

Good luck, and please let us know how we can make this area of the forum more useful for everyone.