Cláudia studied Linguistics at FLUL and started working life as a Research Assistant for Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa in the areas of Psycholinguistics and Phonetics. She then started teaching and for the past 20 years has taught General and Academic English as well as Technical English (such as English for Finance, the Aviation Industry, the Pharmaceutical Industry, Medical Sciences, IT and Tourism&Hospitality). She worked in Belgium, Holland and in Portugal and she is now an English Lecturer in FLUL as well as an English teacher for ILNOVA and a trainer in behavioural courses for her own company, Circunflexo. Her main focus is on Business English, in areas such as Presentations, Meetings and Negotiations. She has a C.E.L.T.A. from Cambridge University and has taught courses of preparation for the Cambridge exams and IELTS. Her work as a linguist includes positions as Linguistic Consultant for Letrário, Language Specialist in the development of text-to-speech technology in Belgium, and Portuguese Language Specialist for Microsoft and Nuance in the U.S.A.