Make sure that your equipment (webcam, headphones, microphone, communication tool, etc.) works!

During our first lesson:
- we'll get acquainted
- we'll talk in Russian to assess your level (maybe read or translate something as well)
- we'll agree on a learning strategy
- I'll show you all my teaching materials
- I'll answer all your questions
- I'll send you an offline document with resources to create a language immersion.

Speaking practice lessons based on articles, literature (authentic Russian books or the ones translated into Russian, no kids stories), TV series, shows, films, YouTube videos, questionnaires. You'll be provided with homework before each lesson (a book fragment or a podcast, or a movie fragment + vocabulary from those, questions or / and tasks to practice the vocab). We'll work in your personal Google Document (where you'll have all tasks and full access to edit the content).

Russian speaking practice (read the description)

What does this course look like?

- We follow a logically structured plan that involves practicing from the simplest grammar and vocabulary, to the most complex.

- Each lesson will have assignments of all types: describing pictures, listening to texts, reading dialogues, practicing grammar drills and grammar based speaking exercises, writing essays, asking each other questions related to the topic, making up your own examples, analyzing snippets from songs, and so on.

- I invented and wrote all the materials myself, based on my teaching and learning experience, tested it already on many students, improved it many times. The materials are balanced, so you won't feel like we're only doing grammar.

- At the end of each class, I give you homework. The grammar rules, or rather their explanation, are doubled in English, which will help you to review the material again on your own.

Russian for general purposes (read the description)

During my studies I mainly focused on teaching methods, approaches and techniques popular in Russian methodology and foreign as well. Despite the fact that the range of tools is wide, I personally chose several ones: complex approach, communicative and natural methods, critical thinking development technology. I practised these all while pedagogical practice in a lyceum and am currently using this mix in my educational work.