Anna

My Ukrainian teacher Anna is such a juwel. Although I am always rather exhausted afterwards - the lessons with Anna just make me happy. She is such an encouraging, friendly and very professional teacher. I do highly recommend her!

I had the privilege of worked with Anna 3x/week for a little over a month, and I can tell you that that was the best money I ever spent. Anna is exceptional. The quantity of resources in her possession is unheard of, and she uses them to make sure that her students get the best possible experiences during their Russian learning. She has cool multimedia-based lessons and homework assignments, as well. She gives homework if you want homework, and she grades it promptly with clear explanations for mistakes. She also makes it a point to have students talk in the target language as much as possible, but her English is very fluent, so if you a need to switch to English, she can do so easily, though she works to get back to Russian as soon as possible. I would recommend Anna to anyone. I would even recommend her over the majority of in-person instructors. She makes the technology work for her students in a way that in-person instruction never could.

Today we reviewed some of the vocabulary from the previous reading about Kyiv, and started a new lesson looking at the history and culture of Lviv. It was another really interesting lesson, beginning with a quiz about Lviv and then introducing the history, fun facts and some key places. Anna has also kindly given me a Christmas story to read too, I'm looking forward to reading that over the festive break :) Дуже дякую вам! До зустрічі!

Since beginning lessons with Anna, I have made tremendous progress in learning Ukrainian. Like many English speakers, my knowledge of grammar is weak, but to understand how to use cases in Ukrainian, sometimes you really need to understand the parts of a sentence. Anna is great at teaching this. She is also very responsive to requests. I asked her if we could spend one lesson a week on reading, and she has been super-helpful with that. She even put a huge amount of effort into creating an online reading course built around the classic story "The Little Prince", which I wanted to read. I am so happy I found Anna here on iTalki. She is a gem.

It's really impressive that despite the strikes on the energy infrastructure, this does not get in the way of Anna's teaching! So today we finished reading about Lviv, and Anna showed me some of the key places around the city on googlemaps. It's a great way to learn about the history, culture and architecture of different cities in Ukraine, and I'm very much looking forward to continuing after the Christmas break. Бажаю щасливих свят! До зустрічі в січні!

Today we carried on learning about the interesting sights around Kyiv and also about some of the symbols of Kyiv. There's lots of new vocabulary to learn and Anna has created some online games to try to help! Дякую за урок! До зустрічі!