«I had the please to have Maria as my teacher for a while. Looking back, she was during this time not only an effective teacher for the Russian language, she also gave a lot of background information about the Russian culture, history, pitfalls, differences between ‘soviet style’- and ‘normal’-language etc., and this always with a…

«As a beginning student of Russian I am quite happy with the introduction given to me by Maria. What was very important in my view is that she was able to strike a balance between getting me accustomed to the sound and pronunciation of Russian by speaking more and more Russian, but at the same…

«Ksenia has helped me to succeed in this class», she really seemed to care how well we did and if we enjoyed class. I liked very much individual lessons and constant attention for performances and improvement. In particular: — always correcting mistakes. Some teachers don’t do this for fear of being annoying, however constant, corrections…