Tatiana Filatova

Tatiana is prompt and well prepared for lessons. Her explanations of grammar points are clear, and she makes an effort to tailor her teaching to each student.

Lessons with Tatjana are never boring, and the conversations we have are very helpful for improving my spoken Russian. I highly recommend this teacher :)

My first lesson with Tatiana was great! She already had a lesson planned out for me, and she challenged me while keeping things comfortable enough for my level. I loved that she was organized and explained things so clearly for me. I will definitely be taking more lessons with her in the future!

I have been learning with Tatiana for some weeks already, and i have to say that i notice a remarkable difference comparing her to the average on-line platform teacher. First of all she is used to managing the conversation and the unit's topic in a way which gives evidence , she already has a path and a goal in mind. So she basically already has cautiously observed and listened to the pupils production and she has already identified gaps, common mistakes , that is to say strong and weak points. So she plans units according to this. So thanks !

Tatiana has a quite unique teaching style and touch. - She first of all put efforts on the spelling accuracy, which honestly i had never experienced before, neither on this platform, nor during face-to-face classes. Considering that Russian is a really complex language when it comes to phonetic, due to a pretty broad range of speech sounds and shifting tones, it’s really easy to mess it all up. Despite this fact, i guess no teacher had ever taken this effort before, to consequently repeat the correct spelling for aiding learners to properly speak it. So bottom line, she shows an honest interest and seems intrinsically motivated in helping pupils to progress. Beside, due to her genuine warm-hearted personality, she discloses authentic empathy for the “pupil’s doom” and daily struggle with Russian language. As well as she shows full awareness while working, revealing that she is not just there as a “human-bot instructor” but primarily as a human being who also is a teacher.

Tatiana is a fantastic teacher! She speaks clearly and slowly and is very good at explaining difficult concepts. She is also very patient with my tedious questions and lengthy digressions. Highly recommended!