NYC, Savannah GA, Online
Our stories
Hello language enthusiasts, newbies and aficionados!
If learning foreign languages excites you, we are already speaking the same language!
My name is Maria Vance, and I would love to be your next Russian language teacher! Russian is a complex language with a rich history that is spoken all over the world. I consider myself a cultural ambassador and look forward to sharing my knowledge of Russian culture and traditions with you. In addition to teaching Russian as a foreign language, I have a degree from a Moscow University in teaching Russian literature and would love to teach you about Russian classics!
Not only am I a teacher, but I am also a language learner myself. I speak English fluently, and I am currently learning Mandarin Chinese and Italian. I love languages because they can open more doors and provide possibilities to communicate with people from different cultures. Throughout my teaching career, I have had students from all over the world and I've gotten to learn about their homelands and hometowns! I hope to have this cultural exchange with you next!
My name is Leila Abasheva and I hope to become your next teacher of the Russian language! It’s a rich, complex and expressive language and I am happy to call it my native.
I was born in the industrial city of Perm near the Ural mountains that separate Europe from Asia. My dad is Tatar and barely spoke Russian before he was 16. He went on to learn Russian and then German, and has always encouraged me to learn languages.
Having never learned it myself, I had always been fascinated by the sound of the Tatar language, my aunts and cousins chatting away at the table when I would visit.
Thus began my love affair with sounds, words and conversations, with languages in other words.
I truly believe that being open to learning languages is being open to learning the world; to make the scary familiar, the farside closer.
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I like to give my students the tools to build a strong foundation of the language, the “carcass” I call it, where then they can go on building their language confidence. I want to see them use the language from our first class. I love to see their smiley faces when they learn new phrases, nail those “weird” sounds or make linguistic discoveries (“Russian is so different from English!”).
Come and learn with us at LinguaRu!