Experienced Russian Teacher providing personalised teaching online and in Tunbridge Wells, Kent

I’ve been having Russian lessons with Alina for just over two and a half years and can highly recommend her as a tutor! She is first and foremost interested in what I want to achieve and thanks to her teaching I have gone from having almost no Russian to being able to spend a couple of weeks in Odessa speaking nothing but Russian all day. Our lessons focus on real-life situations and experiences, rather than dry textbook examples and grammar tables, and this makes the lessons really engaging and mean that I can more meaningfully interact with the Russian-speaking world. She is a patient tutor and gives me space to make mistakes. Alina puts great emphasis on the importance of understanding and correctly pronouncing phonetics when learning Russian and I have found that this approach really works. Her communication is great as well – she is always quick to respond if I have questions, and is very flexible with lesson times too. We have been having lessons over Skype recently due to Covid19 lockdown and the experience has been just as good as when we had them face-to-face. If you want to start learning Russian I would not hesitate to recommend Alina as a tutor.