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Maria Makarchenko

Community Tutor
Teaches
Russian
Native
Ukrainian
Native
English
Speaks
Korean
Portuguese
French
German
Indonesian
Spanish
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Cantonese)
Greek
Italian
Japanese
Lakota
🦦 A patient and friendly teacher with over 4 years of experience 🌸 Package DISCOUNTS 🌌
From UkraineLiving in Kyiv, Ukraine (15:50 UTC+02:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Aug 5, 2021
InterestsReadingScienceFilms & TV SeriesTravelGaming
🙋🏻‍♀️ Hello everyone! *Note: Unfortunately, I don't prepare my students for any kind of examination and I don't teach kids. Thanks for your understanding!* 💔 My name is Maria, I am from Ukraine🇺🇦. I'm a native speaker of Ukrainian and Russian, but I speak English fluently as well. I can also speak Portuguese at the B1 level and Korean at A2 level. 🙆🏻‍♀️ I've decided to become a tutor on Italki because languages are my life. I'd love to save the beautiful Lakota language! I want to help others learn languages that I'm offering. I'm a good listener. My students tell me that maybe I could become a therapist 🌝 I will listen to you 100%!
5.0
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724
Students
4627
Lessons
100%
Attendance rate
100%
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Ukrainian Lessons

Ukrainian
Russian
English
Trial Lesson
319 lessons completed
USD 12.00+
🌱 Conversation Practice (A1-C2 levels) / Розмовна практика 🌻 PACKAGE DISCOUNT
A1 -  C2

Conversation

668 lessons completed
USD 17.00+
Package with 12% off
🐣 Ukrainian for beginners (A0 level) 🌻 PACKAGE DISCOUNT
A1

Language Essentials

717 lessons completed
USD 17.00+
Package with 12% off
Offline 📝 (flashcards, text corrections, personalised vocabulary lists etc)
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

8 lessons completed
USD 16.00+
Package with 2% off
✍🏼 Essay Writing / Написання есе (OFFLINE)
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

0 lessons completed
USD 10.00
Package with 2% off
🤯 Surzhyk Practice / Практика суржику
B1 -  C2

Conversation

0 lessons completed
USD 17.00+
Package with 2% off
🧏🏻‍♀️ Listening Practice / Практика аудіювання (AUDIO ONLY)
A1 -  C2

Language Essentials

0 lessons completed
USD 16.00+
Package with 2% off

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Kristin
49 Ukrainian lessons
Teacher’s pick
I am a new student to Ukrainian and to italki. From the very first «Привіт!», with her beaming smile, Maria had me hooked! Марія teaches and listens with enthusiasm, patience, and a lot of understanding. Her lessons and conversations are diverse, interesting, engaging, and we always smile and laugh along the way! 😄 With my extremely demanding schedule, our learning sessions have become a veritable oasis! We just completed another session and I already can’t wait for our next lesson (I feel that way after each lesson)! Щиро дякую, Маріє! Я так багато вивчаю кожен урок! Ти чудова вчителька! Дуже дуже дякую! 🙏
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May 7, 2024
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Will Prigge
47 Russian lessons
Teacher’s pick
I have had Maria as a teacher for at least six lessons and she is excellent. She quickly assessed my level of skill in Russian, where I was strongest and what needed work on. Then she set up me up with the opportunity to do assignments (if I wished). Maria is also a great conversationalist and to my surprise had an incredibly detailed knowledge of my humble little state of South Dakota. The hour I spend with her each week just flies by. She motivates me to be better and I feel myself improving as a student -- at least my confidence is! : ) I was not a great language student back in school, but this is fun. It doesn’t feel like work at all. Notice how busy her schedule is. There is a reason: she’s good.
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Apr 2, 2022
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Fantronn
18 Ukrainian lessons
Every lesson with Maria is another huge step towards language proficiency. Her compassionate guidance and detailed explanations about the nuances of the beautiful Ukrainian language have been extremely valuable to me as I move towards real conversations with native speakers. She perfectly blends solid, foundational instruction with very practical words and phrases necessary to communicate on a basic level. My language lesson with Maria is the highlight of my week. I recommend in the strongest terms of every language that you book a lesson with her.
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Mar 27, 2025
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Ryan Andersen
261 Ukrainian lessons
Teacher’s pick
One of the best decisions I made this year was taking Ukrainian lessons with Maria. While I have little talent for learning languages, she has tons and gladly passes her experience and enthusiasm on to her students. In a relaxed and friendly environment, you will learn and practice your language skills, learn about Ukrainian culture, and be inspired to keep going. The hour will go by far too quickly, and you will be noticeably better by its end.
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Dec 30, 2022
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Fantronn
18 Ukrainian lessons
Maria never fails to provide a valuable addition to the language skill set I am striving to develop. She is an excellent teacher and an even more remarkable human being. She is always cheerful and never fails to motivate; encouraging her students to further their language education. Her approach promotes weekly progress, and she offers a variety of tasks to make learning interesting and effective. She masterfully weaves foundational building blocks with practical conversational tips which makes communication with native speakers of this beautiful language much easier. I highly recommend her as an instructor.
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Mar 29, 2025
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Kristin
49 Ukrainian lessons
My last lesson, I truly felt like I was flying🛫✨ as I was conversing in Ukrainian with Maria! This most recent lesson, I felt like I was on a rocket ship! 🚀✨ With Maria’s continued expert guidance and unwavering encouragement, I feel the previously unimaginable word “fluent” becoming more of an actual possibility and moving ever steadily in my direction! Щиро дякую, дуже дякую, and every other дякую which can be expressed, Маріє!!
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Mar 23, 2025
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