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 am a professional Russian language instructor dedicated to helping you achieve fluency. I hold a Bachelor’s degree from Moscow State Pedagogical University and a specialized certification in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) from Moscow State University.
I specialize in teaching standard Russian with a Moscow accent, focusing on conversational fluency, structural grammar, and Russian cultural competency. My teaching style follows a communicative, person-centered approach, integrating Russian literature and interactive digital tools to ensure every lesson is tailored to your individual goals.
With over 7 years of online teaching experience, I have successfully helped international students with Russian for relocation, travel, and exam preparation. As an experienced online Russian tutor and a language learner myself, I bring patience and high emotional intelligence to every session. I look forward to helping you learn Russian and explore its rich history together!
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.
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!