Meet the team
Fun Languages Almada is part of a network of 13 language learning centres spread across the country and with 25 years of educational experience. The school is located in the centre of Almada and is an accredited organisation in preparing students for Cambridge University Exams.
The pedagogical methodology used is innovative and focuses on communicative interaction between teacher and student (from 3 years of age) promoted in a spontaneous, natural and non-compulsive way.
The methodology and materials used are regularly updated and our teachers are qualified and fluent (bilingual or native) in the language they teach.
Each class is made up of a maximum of 12 students and all of them are given language proficiency tests beforehand, so that the groups are made up of students of a similar level.
Miriam Tavares
Meet the team
Miriam Tavares
Co-founder, General and Pedagogical Director
With a genuine passion for language learning and empowering teams and students through transformative language education, she has been an English teacher for over ten years, having taught in Portugal and other countries. She loves what she does and is passionate about her students’ success.
Her main goal is to help students develop solid English language skills and achieve good results in Cambridge exams. Founder of Fun Languages Almada, her goal is to make students feel welcomed and learn as much as possible.
She has a degree in Management from the University of Lisbon, holds the CELTA certificate (Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and has a specialization in Pedagogical Coordination.
As the director of Fun Languages Almada, both in terms of teaching and management, she is fully committed to creating an environment where students feel comfortable and succeed, both in learning the language and in preparing for exams. To this end, she also invests in building and supporting a team of highly qualified teachers.
Frederico Lima
Co-founder, Partnership Manager
Frederico is passionate about languages. He speaks English fluently and, more recently, he started learning French, and he already reads books in that language with enthusiasm. He has a master's degree in Organizational Psychology from ISPA and has several years of experience in the insurance and real estate sectors. In addition to his corporate career, he is also the founder of Retrox Vintage Shop, a vintage designer furniture store in Lisbon, where he expresses his passion for design and aesthetics. At Fun Languages Almada, he is a co-founder and our partnership manager.
Marco Brunner
Co-founder, IT Manager
Marco has a degree in Management and IT and is one of the founders of Fun Languages Almada. With a long corporate career in the area of Information Technology, he naturally takes on the role of Director of Information Technology at our school, where he adds immense value with his experience and strategic vision. Throughout his career, he has recognised the importance of language skills, not only for a successful career, but also for a richer social life. He speaks German, English and Portuguese fluently, and also has French on his list of languages, which he studied for several years at school and now intends to update.
Rita Ramos
Portuguese Language Teacher
Rita holds a degree in Portuguese Language-Applied Foreign Languages from the Catholic University of Lisbon and a master's degree in Portuguese as a Foreign Language/Second Language from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. Rita has been teaching Portuguese to foreigners and those who have another mother tongue for 22 years.
Sabrina Pascht
German Language Teacher
Sabrina studied Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. She is a creative director and German copywriting mentor and joined our team as a German teacher, while also studying Portuguese herself.
Marilia Baptist
Portuguese Language Teacher
Marília is currently completing her PhD in Educational Linguistics at the Department of General and Romance Linguistics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the University of Brasília, Brazil. She specializes in Comparative Literature and holds a degree in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. She has been teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) and Portuguese as a Host Language (PLA) for 20 years, both in Brazil and Portugal.
Beverly Makobe
English teacher
Beverly volunteered for a non-profit organization that educated children and teenagers about HIV/AIDS. It was there that she discovered that she loved teaching. In 2018, she completed her Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) at International House Johannesburg in South Africa. During this time, she worked with students from French-speaking countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi. She also spent two years in Shanghai, China, helping Chinese students improve their English. She now lives in Portugal and is excited to continue teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Devon Kirby
English teacher
A teacher from Durban, South Africa. He completed his TEFL certification course in September 2020 through The TEFL Academy. He has a great passion for football, which took him from South Africa to Europe in an attempt to build a career as a professional athlete. However, this dream did not come true and along the way he discovered another passion: teaching and learning languages.
In addition to teaching English, Devon is currently studying for a degree in International Business Management at the European University. This academic path has reinforced his belief that languages are fundamental, and that being fluent in multiple languages provides access to knowledge and wisdom that cannot be found in books alone.
For him, true understanding between people and building relationships are based on the ability to communicate effectively. He believes that those who have a genuine desire to understand others have everything to gain from learning new languages.
Maxime Marasse
French teacher
Maxime completed a degree and then a postgraduate degree in Social Anthropology at the Universities of Montpellier and La Sorbonne in Paris. He later obtained two certifications to teach French as a foreign language: one from the University of Rouen and the other from the Alliance Française in Paris. He has been teaching French as a foreign language for 10 years and has worked at several academies and universities in France and Argentina.
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