Language support tailored to your needs
Learn from a qualified and experienced professional, focus on your specific needs, and be ready to tackle your personal, professional or academic language challenges.
I'm Lydia Munday and I help companies, professionals and students from a range of backgrounds learn exactly what they need from a language to fulfill their ambitions.
Shall we get started?
Companies I’ve provided English courses for:
Institutions I’ve worked for:
Learn the language you need
and grow from there
Companies
- Learn how to interact confidently, fluently and effectively.
- Learn appropriate business and functional language to make a good impression.
- Improve your emails and be less dependent on AI and tools such as Grammarly.
- Feel prepared for meetings with international clients, suppliers and colleagues.
- Give engaging presentations with ease.
Professionals
- Receive plenty of feedback and correction.
- Learn suitable business, social and functional language to make a good impression.
- Overcome your nerves when speaking in front of others.
- Get support with writing CVs, cover letters and preparing for interviews in English, if required.
Students
- Get support with academic writing or studying in English.
- Receive guidance and feedback on presentations, pronunication and other work.
- Build your confidence when speaking English.
- Improve your grammar and vocabulary so you can speak and write in English with style.
- Get plenty of tailored correction.
Walk and Talk
- One-to-one or two-to-one lessons
- Talk about what comes up naturally in conversation and develop your vocabulary.
- Focus on social and functional language.
- Get feedback and correction, grammar and vocabulary input in a real-life context.
- Use the walking lessons as a basis for writing development.
- Get to know Porto better!
Portuguese Learners
- Make a good impression on the locals when on holiday or business in Portugal.
- Get out of the expat bubble and experience a more authentic Portugal. Join the Portuguese-speaking community!
- Get plenty of support and feedback.
- Learn with a qualified language teacher who has been through the Portuguese learning process.
- Have Portuguese grammar explained in a clear, practical and accessible way.
Enjoy the process
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Choose your environment
Many people had negative language learning experiences at school. You need to be relaxed to learn. You may feel more at ease learning at home, in the office or even out and about on a walk. From online to face-to-face lessons, whether inside or outside, I'll help you find the right context for your learning journey.
2
Find your motivation
I believe that enjoyment, curiosity and motivation are key to effective learning. No matter how much you know you need to learn a language for work, studies etc., you’re never going to get the best out of the experience if you don’t have an inner motivation, an internal curiosity that goes beyond mundane necessity.
Let me help you find it!
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Achieve your language goals
From my experience of language learning, I know that you’re unlikely to make progress if what you learn has no relevance to your everyday life. I therefore offer feedback and lesson content that targets your personal weak spots, rather than giving you a prescribed list of rules to memorize. Lessons arise from natural conversations.
Testimonials
Times are changing...
and I'm changing with them.
Times have changed since I first started teaching 18 years ago. Firstly, with globalisation, people are not just learning English to work or study in the UK or other English-speaking countries, but to communicate throughout the world. Levels of English comprehension have improved, thanks to Netflix and other English media, and people have less time and patience for text-book or grammar-based learning. The Internet has made language learning more accessible but people often find the range of choices overwhelming and can get lost. That's why I'm offering flexible options to guide you on your language-learning journey. No-one should feel that language learning is just a lonely uphill slog.
Yet the main reason clients contact me is because they lack confidence speaking English as they don't have regular contact with English speakers. Many have had stressful or negative language learning experiences at school. Some fear being judged when speaking in front of colleagues. Grammarly and AI have helped millions to improve their written communication, but these tools can only go so far. There is a risk of becoming blindly dependent on technology and losing your own voice. Let me help you build your linguistic independence!
Address
Avenida Fabril do Norte, 1129,
Senhora da Hora, Matosinhos, Portugal
Phone
PT tel:+ 351 920 362 696