Highly-qualified language teacher with 20 years of experience, including living and working in Italy, offers online Italian lessons for beginner to intermediate learners.

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Lydia is a magnificent language teacher. Lydia is a linguist and speaks English, Portuguese, and other languages. She is our Portuguese teacher (we are English speakers).

Our classes have been fun, personalized, and highly productive, and they are always one of the highlights of our week. She is a friendly and patient person, and she clearly demonstrates the joy she takes in teaching!

Lydia uses traditional textbooks, but she sometimes teaches lessons “out of order” from the books to improve learning—a hallmark of a teacher who truly masters her subject.

Lydia is the best choice for helping someone learn a new language. I recommend her 100%!

Lydia came highly recommended by a friend here in our new home in Portugal. She is also a professor of language.
Lydia is exemplary in her linguistic knowledge of Portuguese and very adaptive to the needs and abilities of the student she is teaching.
Lydia has recognized that our careers as engineers drive how we approach learning a new language and has purposely provided challenges to meet our inquisitiveness and style of learning. When we ask why a certain word or phrase is used, she explains in a way that is understood and relatable.
Lydia is without a doubt knowledgeable in the Portuguese language and more so because she is able to tailor how she teaches to the individual person to meet their level of comprehension.

Lydia taught my teenage daughter who has attention deficit. She was excellent. Lydia was reliable and went with the flow, finding teaching opportunities with every distraction while still keeping it fun. My daughter normally detests tutoring or structured learning of any kind. But she liked Lydia and her lessons. She even got her to do virtual lessons which was amazing. I was so happy that my daughter was learning in a positive environment. My daughter was able to say a few phrases and understand some things within just a few lessons. We would have continued if my daughter didn’t start Portuguese lessons at school. I would highly recommend.

Lydia has been helping our 10-year-old to progress to the next level of Portuguese in her school. Since she started her lessons 2 months ago, our daughter has improved significantly; she has a much better grasp of the language and she's enthusiastic about learning. Lydia brings to every class structure and consistency as well as lovely and warm presence. I highly recommend her!

Lydia is an excellent and patient English tutor. Professional in her approach, she has the ability to make lessons interesting, varied and tailored to the needs of each individual. Thanks to Lydia I have gained great improvement in my pronunciation and confidence in my English speaking and presentation skills.

Lydia is a wonderful Portuguese teacher. As a native English speaker, the language is naturally challenging for me, but she knows exactly how to navigate it. Lessons are highly personalized, and cover recent events in the news - none of which you will find with Duolingo.

I have known Lydia for nearly two years as a fellow tutor who I meet regularly here in Porto where we both live, and our conversations inevitably revolve around our work! Lydia is passionate about helping others to learn Portuguese. She takes time to personalise all her lessons, and every student is treated with care, kindness and respect for their specific learning strengths and needs.
Lydia is imaginative and creative and uses her knowledge of Portuguese history, society, music and culture to help make language learning relevant and readily applicable to real life situations.
If you find yourself learning Portuguese with Lydia, I know you will be in the best hands!

Lydia teaches Portuguese to our group of three, and it's delightful. Our classes are enjoyable and equally functional. We feel that we are improving from week to week, so we will definitely continue learning as much as possible with Lydia. Highly recommended!

Lydia works diligently to ensure that lessons are tailored to my interests, learning style and ability. As a result, I find the learning process stimulating and enjoyable. Lydia also covers culture, including music, current news and affairs, programmes. Aims and objectives are reached by reading, writing, listening and visual work. She is infinitely patient and understanding but will correct my errors and pronunciation in a kindly fashion. As a result, I have found my confidence growing in speaking the Portuguese language, and I sound more authentic. I am not just learning the language by rote, but am really understanding it. I am so pleased I found Lydia as I doubt I would have continued with my studies in the language. Lydia comes very highly recommended by me. Thank you!

I highly recommend Lydia as an exceptional English teacher.
She is a qualified English teacher and, although she is a native English speaker, she is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French. This linguistic ability greatly helps in understanding and translating colloquial expressions and various meanings from these languages into English.
Lydia customises her lessons to meet the specific needs of each student.