Speak English like it's yours.
Not another grammar drill. Small groups of six, tutors who stay with you the whole way, and a curriculum rebuilt around the conversations you actually need to have — at work, in transit, or across a dinner table.
4.9 / 5 from 1,180 learner reviews
Four people walk in. Four different problems.
A single syllabus can't serve all of them, so we don't pretend otherwise. Every track starts from what you already do in your own language and works toward doing it in this one.
01 — The Beginner
You know a hundred words and none of the courage.
- 01 — The Beginner
You know a hundred words and none of the courage.
We start with the sentences you'll actually say this week — ordering, introducing yourself, asking someone to repeat. Grammar arrives later, once it has something to hold on to.
- Hold a five-minute introduction by week three
- Phonics-first pronunciation, no phonetic alphabet required
- Zero-pressure speaking rooms with two tutors present
- 02 — The Professional
Your English is fine. The meeting is the problem.
Fluency at work is a different skill: interrupting politely, disagreeing without damage, presenting under time pressure. We rehearse your real calendar, not a textbook's.
- Role-plays built from your own meeting recordings
- Email and deck reviews with same-week turnaround
- Industry vocabulary for finance, tech, medicine or law
- 03 — The Traveller
You want to arrive somewhere and not feel like a tourist.
Survival English gets you a hotel room. We aim higher — small talk, humour, asking for the thing that isn't on the menu, and understanding the accent you actually land in.
- Listening drills across six regional accents
- Situational packs: transit, health, housing, nightlife
- Conversation partners in the city you're moving to
- 04 — The Candidate
There's a band score between you and the next thing.
IELTS, TOEFL and Cambridge are exams before they are language tests. We teach the rubric as explicitly as the vocabulary, then drill until the timing stops being the hard part.
- Weekly full mock tests, marked against the live rubric
- Writing feedback keyed to each band descriptor
- Average +1.2 bands across a twelve-week track
Pick the shape that fits your week.
- Format1-to-1
- Session55 min
- StartAny week
A single tutor stays with you for the whole track, so nobody re-explains what you already know. Sessions are 55 minutes, scheduled around your week, with a written recap in your inbox the same day.
We publish the numbers because we track them.
Most schools sell atmosphere. We would rather show you the four measurements that actually predict whether you'll be speaking in six months.
Speaking time is the metric
We measure minutes spoken per learner per session and publish it. Groups are capped at six because seven is where the quiet person stops talking.
One tutor, start to finish
Your tutor stays with you for the whole track. No re-introductions, no re-explaining the thing you already fixed three weeks ago.
Progress you can see
Levelled assessments every four weeks against the CEFR descriptors, with a written record of exactly what moved and what didn't.
A track that holds
Miss a session and it's credited, not lost. Don't reach your target level on an exam track and the next block is on us.
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- Certified tutors
Across 47 countries since 2009.
On the twelve-week IELTS track.
Against an industry average near 60%.
CELTA or DELTA, minimum five years in room.
People who stopped translating in their head.
Six of the eleven hundred reviews we've collected since 2009. We don't edit them for length or for grammar.
“I'd studied English for nine years and still froze on calls. Six weeks in, I ran a client review on my own. Nobody switched to my language once.”
Mariana Costa Brazil · Business English
“Band 6.5 to 8.0 in one track. The mock marking was brutal in the best way — I knew my weak descriptor by week two and we just drilled it.”
Yusuf Demir Türkiye · IELTS Band 7+
“I started with about forty words. My tutor never once made me feel slow. I ordered dinner in Dublin last month and the waiter didn't blink.”
Aiko Tanaka Japan · First 500 Words
“The six-person cap is the whole product. In my old school of twenty I spoke maybe twice an hour. Here I can't hide, and that's the point.”
Lukas Berger Germany · Small group · B2
“We moved to Manchester in March. The accent packs were the thing — I'd trained on American English for a decade and understood nobody.”
Sofia Ricci Italy · Relocation track
“My tutor rebuilt the syllabus around my actual sales calls. By month two I was closing in English. That is not something I expected to type.”
Diego Herrera Mexico · Negotiation Intensive
The things people ask before they sign up.
If yours isn't here, ask us directly — we answer within one working day.
Book a placement. It takes twenty minutes.
A short written task and a real conversation with a tutor — no multiple choice, no obligation. You'll leave knowing your CEFR level and exactly which track fits.
- StudioRua das Flores 118, 1200-195 Lisboa, Portugal
- Phone+351 21 099 4420
- Emailhello@lumen-english.com
- OpenMon – Fri, 08:00 – 21:00 WET
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