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 started by reviewing my homework. Anna always corrects my writing really quickly and then takes the time to explain her corrections in the class. Then we continued looking at verbs of motion, this time with transport. Дякую за урок! 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.

As always I can only recommend Anna. She is very attentive and responds so beautifully and patiently to every question I have. I also love her way of presenting little extras - for example about the Ukrainian culture, the geography, peculiarities about the language (for example what are the different meanings of "hero" in the Ukrainian language) and more. After every lesson I just look forward to the next one :-)

It was great to get back to lessons with Anna after I had a break for a holiday, and it made me realise how much we have covered since I started lessons earlier this year. I'm looking forward to carrying on studying Anna's Просто Цікаво course and beyond. Дякую Анно!