Fun Facts

When I was 8, I firmly decided to learn German by myself. “It is just for fun”, thought my parents but they bought me a textbook and a dictionary. I started studying and every day discovered the beauty of the language! My dream was to become fluent one day and achieve the native speaker level.
Since then I have had the biggest passion of my life and never regretted it!
But traveling to Germany made it even more fun.
Always follow your dreams even if they seem to be unrealistic at the beginning!

About Me

I am an experienced teacher, professor, and lecturer who has been teaching German for more than 25 years. I also teach Russian (my native language), ESL, and Italian. I am a certified methodologist so I can create any kind of course on demand.
I graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University with my M.A. in Teaching German. Since then I have been teaching and also working as an interpreter abroad.
I got my certificate at Goethe Institute and became a certified methodologist.
I also have my Ph D.

Experience

I have a background as an experienced lecturer, teacher, and tutor in the field of linguistics (general linguistics, history of linguistics, psycholinguistics, social linguistics, and gender studies).
When I was 20, I started teaching German privately in person. Later when I got my Master’s, I continued teaching German and started teaching ESL at the university. I have been doing it for almost 20 years and 10 years ago I decided to develop online teaching and Besides German and ESL started 2 ne

Approach

My basic principles are:

- individual attitude toward everybody
- your needs are always considered and respected
- always fun, never boring
- interactive lessons
- introducing all aspects of the language: modern conversation, culture, history, mentality, slang and dialects, media and movies
- a variety of methods
- real Internet resources
- the majority of your time will be spent practicing your new language
- lots of positive feedback to eliminate the language barrier
- a variety of activities