ABOUT US

I am Vitaly, a native speaker of Russian and nearly native speaker of English. I'm a host at LearnRealRussian.com, and a co-author of the audio lessons and techniques used on the site. I am a professional teacher and translator holding MA in linguistics.

Periodically I engage other people to help me with the lessons, for example, Roman, a Russian voice specialist helps me voice most of the dialogues on the Website, Thomas, my American friend, provides his valuable contributions and recommendations concerning materials and their effectiveness, and participates in testing lessons. If I have questions about the Russian language, sometimes I do have them, I turn to Natali, a professional teacher of Russian.

I've been working for a software development company for a few years, which helped me, a master of arts, to look at lessons from a perspective of a program developer where the user is a server and every lesson is a piece of code designed to return the desired result. In other words, I tried to make the lessons simple, consistent, structured, and effective. At the same, we tried to make learning Russian quite dynamic so you wouldn't be snoring by the end of a lesson.

I love the Russian language and I want to make it popular among English speakers by providing clear, comprehensible, and really effective lessons. It took us a few years to make the lessons and the Website; so we hope each of you will be able to master the desired level.