This is me, Luciana, online Portuguese teacher and author

Some years ago, in 2011, my husband and I made a decision that changed our lives and the way we used to live.

We were language teachers in Brazil. Our students used to come to our home, we had our business, friends, family, and we were even starting to make plans to buy our own house!

When, out of the blue, we decided to move to Spain, my husband’s home country. In the middle of the crises. With no jobs. And we hadn’t won the lottery!

Denia - portuguesewithluciana — Montgo Mountain in Denia, Spain.

To do that well, we’d need time and a plan. And that’s exactly what we didn’t do. Just a few months later I saw myself landing in Barcelona, heading to Denia, the Mediterranean city we chose to live and develop our online teaching job. Yes! This is how we made online teaching our full-time job.

This site is the result of all those years teaching my language – Brazilian Portuguese – to students all around the world. I teach around 900 to 1000 lessons per year and I want to have a place to put together everything I’ve already done to my students so I can reach more people!

Some facts about me:

• My name is Luciana, but people call me Lu.
• Born in São Paulo, raised in Indaiatuba, SP.
• I’ve always loved languages. I started having contact with foreign languages when I was a kid and the first one was Esperanto! Then came English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Greek! But I can only speak English and Spanish at a decent level.
• I graduated in Campinas, Brazil, in Letras (languages Portuguese – English), but had other jobs before teaching.
• I love DIY, reading, and photography.
• I was a digital nomad for a bit more than a year and loved the experience! Right now, Caldas da Rainha, in Portugal is where we call home!
• I’ve published “Quando o passado bate à porta“, my first Graded Reader for intermediate students of Brazilian Portuguese, in March/2020. You can get the first chapter for free here!

This is it about me for now! If you want to keep in touch, you can write to me here. And if you want to know everything I share here to help you in your Portuguese language adventure, sign up here.

Here’s what my students are saying about me:

As aulas da Luciana são muito legais. Desfruto muito delas. Primeiro, são muito engraçadas. Segundo, as aulas são personalizadas. Isso é ótimo, porque Luciana escolhe atividades, leituras e vídeos de meu interesse. Assim, consegui melhorar minhas habilidades de escuta e escrita, já que escuto e escrevo sobre temas que são relevantes para meu trabalho e minha vida no Brasil. Além disso, nas aulas falo muito com Luciana sobre diversos materiais como vídeos, podcasts e artigos, ajudando-me a melhorar minhas habilidades de conversa em português.

Taking Portuguese classes with Luciana has been a great experience. I highly recommend her if you are serious about improving your skills. Luciana is friendly, patient and a good listener. Therefore, her classes are a safe space where you can make mistakes without feeling shy or embarrassed. When I started lessons with her, she was the only person I felt comfortable speaking with in Portuguese. With her help, I became much more comfortable, and now I am able to travel in Brazil independently without using English. I even receive compliments from native speakers. Muito Obrigado Luciana!

It’s always a pleasure to learn Portuguese with Professora Lu. Besides providing step by step solid foundation with textbook, she offers diversity information and insight in term of culture, music or politics etc. according to student’s interest. This makes language learning so fun to continue and really synchronize with the real life. She is easy to talk with and patient to answer to all kind of question. Also she provides good suggestion and help on language learning with good understanding on student’s needs and this make learning more efficient less painful. Always enjoy a lot at the class with her.

Luciana has been a tremendously helpful and effective instructor. My spoken Portuguese was almost non-existent when I started and in just a few months of lessons we've achieved quite a lot. Our lessons are always easygoing and fun. Evgeny Morozov, Belarus/Italy

I find classes with Luciana to be student centered, highly personal, and comfortable. Her classes have given me an unimaginable amount of confidence when speaking with native Portuguese speakers. More importantly, I've learned so much about formal academic Portuguese and at the same time been exposed to the colloquial language used in ordinary life. My lessons with Luciana are indispensable!

As aulas com Luciana são um espaço seguro e amigável para aprender sobre a língua, a literatura e a realidade brasileira. A Luciana tem uma estrutura clara para todas as aulas, mas sempre posso propor temas e textos que me interessem.

I love my classes with Luciana. I have dramatically improved my Portugese while working with her and I value her organization and commitment to the classes. Luciana is flexible in terms of finding material to use that interests me, and she is full of resources and ideas. I highly recommend her as a teacher to anyone who is wanting to learn Portugese and/or fine -tune their skills.

Thanks to Luciana, I continue learning Portuguese wherever I am. I moved several times over the past two years, and I travel a lot for work. Despite these challenges, I continued my lessons thanks to the flexible online-learning method. The lessons are tailored to individual needs and learning speed. This is a big advantage for busy professionals. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn Portuguese!

私はルシアナ先生に出会ってから、ポルトガル語の学習を長く続けることが出来ています。授業中には文法の解説を行ってもらい、文法演習や発音の指導を受けています。仕事の都合で出張が多く中々語学学校には行かれないので、フレキシブルに時間を選べるオンライン学習を選びました。会社の休み時間など隙間時間を使って、勉強出来るので、忙しい社会人の方にもオススメです。個人指導なので、興味があるブラジルの文化や社会のことを聞くことが出来るのも魅了的です。

Luciana is very helpful in my path to learning a second language. She easily adapted her lesson plans to my level. It is easy for me to schedule classes that fit into my variable schedule. I really enjoyed her book, “Quando o Passado Bate À Porta.” It was a real sense of accomplishment to be able to read and understand a book that is tailor made for those learning Portuguese.

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