"I have over two years of experience teaching Russian area studies and the Russian language at the postsecondary level: I was a Graduate Assistant Teacher when I was a Russian M.A. student at the University of Arizona. During the Spring 2012 semester I also worked as an adjunct instructor for a Russian-language course at the same institution. In this course I taught strategies for reading advanced Russian texts in a number of subject areas, including through decoding Russian word structure and learning the meanings of common word roots.

I would be more than happy to provide you with an entrée into the Russian language. I learned the standard Moscow-accent (literaturnyi iazyk) from native speakers of this dialect, so I can emphasize lots of conversational practice in the classroom. I will always emphasize and reinforce correct pronunciation and intonation." less...