· Most chosen ·
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Best Value
For students serious about fluency within a year.
Schedule
3 classes per week
11–12 classes per month
50 minutes each
$30
per class
$360
per month · based on 12 classes / month
English tutor · Toronto · Online worldwide
Find your
voice in English.
Slow, considered lessons for Brazilian students learning to think — and feel — in another language. Taught between Toronto, Curitiba, and Abu Dhabi.
Currently accepting new students
Bilingual EN / PT·Lived in BR & UAE·Native English·200+ students
About · Sobre
01I teach English the way I wish someone had taught me Portuguese.
One-to-one English lessons for Brazilian adults, mostly online. TEFL certified. A bit obsessive about pronunciation. Patient with everything else.
I grew up in Toronto, in a Serbian-Macedonian family. English was the language of school and friends; the rest came later. Portuguese I learned sideways — first from neighbours, then more seriously after I met my (now ex-) husband and spent several years between Curitiba and Toronto.
That third language is the one that taught me how to teach. It showed me how slowly we really learn, how much of a language lives in habit and silence, and how patient a good teacher has to be when their student is reaching for a word.
I taught full-time in Abu Dhabi for a few years, then took other work back in Canada while my children were small. They're five and six now — both half-Brazilian — and I'm returning to teaching properly. It's the work that fits the life I'm raising them inside.
"My job is to make you bored of grammar drills and hungry for the next conversation."
In numbers
1-to-1
adults only
200+
students taught
3 cities
TO · CWB · AD lived
EN / PT
fully bilingual
How I teach · Método
02Three things I believe.
Most of what makes a lesson work happens before the lesson starts. Here's the thinking under it.
01Mostly speaking
Conversation comes first.
Grammar is the scaffolding, not the building. We start by talking — about your week, your work, the news, whatever is on your mind — and we let the corrections find their place inside the conversation, where they actually stick.
02Made for you
Your story matters.
I don't teach the English of textbooks. I teach the English you'll use — to write an email to a client, to argue with your landlord, to read your kid a bedtime story in their other language. We build the syllabus around your life.
03Built to last
The slow road is the faster one.
Two classes a week for a year will take you further than five classes a week for two months. Cramming feels productive and rarely is. We build something quiet and durable — the kind of fluency that doesn't vanish on vacation.
Every lesson is 50 minutes. We meet on Google Meet or Zoom. After each class I send a short written summary — the new words, the corrections, one thing to notice this week.
Pricing · Preços
03Four ways to study with me.
Pick the rhythm that fits your life. The most successful students settle into Balanced or Best Value and stay for a year.
Show prices in
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Balanced
The most popular cadence — fluency without burning out.
Schedule
2 classes per week
8–9 classes per month
50 minutes each
$30
per class
$270
per month · based on 9 classes / month
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Weekly
A steady anchor for busy schedules.
Schedule
1 class per week
4–5 classes per month
50 minutes each
$35
per class
$175
per month · based on 5 classes / month
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Single Class
Try a class, plug a gap, prep for an interview.
Schedule
On request
No commitment
50 minutes each
$40
per class
ⓘ Prices vary with the CAD exchange rate — the BRL and AED columns are illustrative ranges. Always confirmed in writing before your first class.
$40
Already a student? Each friend you refer takes $40 CAD off your next month — stackable, no cap.
How referrals work →Students · Alunos
04From those who stayed.
Most students who try a class with me stay for over a year. These are a few of their words — lightly edited, shared with permission.
↳ Real testimonials from Aleksandra's students will replace these. The faces and roles are illustrative.
✻ A few students have agreed to do a short intro call with prospective students before booking. Ask me about it.
Refer a friend · Indique
05Tell a friend. It stacks.
For every new student you refer who books their first class, Aleksandra takes $40 CAD off your tuition that month. There's no cap.
Friends who sign upoff your next month
1
A friend
Your first referral.
$40CAD
2
Two friends
Now we're talking.
$80CAD
3
Three friends
Half a month free, on Balanced.
$120CAD
4
Four friends
A full month free, on Weekly.
$160CAD
∞
And so on
You could study for free.
∞
Per referral
$40
CAD off · stacks
The fine print, briefly
- 1.Applied as a credit in the month your friend books their first class.
- 2.Stacks indefinitely — multiple referrals in one month combine.
- 3.Works on any plan, including Single Class.
- 4.No code, no form. Just tell your friend to mention you.
Contact · Contato
06Let's talk. Twenty minutes, no charge.
The best way to know if we'll work well together is to talk for a bit. Send me a message on WhatsApp — I usually answer the same day. We'll set up a free 20-minute intro call before any lesson is booked.
Toronto · UTC-5
I keep evening hours for Brazil and morning hours for the Emirates. Most of my BR students meet me 6–10pm BRT; most of my UAE students 9am–1pm GST.
↳ Quiet hours: Sundays, and after 10pm Toronto time.