Teaching Russian to Adults and Children
Natasha has been teaching Russian to foreigners for over 20 years, first in Ukraine and then in the USA. She has a Bachelor’s in Linguistics and a Master’s Degree. Natasha attended a number of teaching trainings, conferences, and seminars. Before her career as an author, Natasha was a head teacher and observed countless lessons, giving feedback to the teachers about how to improve the lesson, as well to the students on how to benefit the most from the program.
Natasha watched many students struggle with learning Russian via complex textbooks that present a lot of material quickly and without allowing the student time to internalize the new information. She quickly started developing her own way of presenting the materials and realized that there is a very simple way to learn any language: just by dividing something complicated into simple pieces and mastering the language step-by-step. Read More
The other night I was trying to explain to my daughter what ESKIMO (Эскимо) is in Russian when we came across that word while reading an 
I love teaching Russian to my students, but even when I am not in the classroom, many of my friends who do not speak Russian would ask me some to teach them some common Russian words and to teach them to read and write something in Russian (what their name would be written like in Russian, some words they already know, etc).
“У него Дар Божий,” – так говорят о человеке, у которого есть голос. Что же такое кроется в нем, в человеческом голосе, что заставляет нас слушать не отрываясь чтение интересной книги, оперу Верди, любимого человека? Существует даже зависимость от голоса, сродни наркотической. У каждого человека свой неповторимый голос. Немногие люди умеют пользоваться этим своим уникальным природным инструментом, как бы, играть им. Слушаешь, бывало, писклявый голосок известного режиссера, рассуждающего о своем месте в искусстве кино и удивляешься: как это такой могучий организм (режиссер этот росту не маленького) издает такой странный, не соответствующий объему тела, звук. Пишут, что и И. С. Тургенев, тоже вполне себе дородный мужчина, говорил высоким, “немужским” голосом. Такие голоса специалисты называют зажатыми. Известно также, что в минуты волнения наш голос звучит выше обычного. 
Sometimes Russians names can be really confusing for a foreigner if he/she does not know how they are formed and changed. First of all, Russian full name consists of a first name, a last or family name and a patronymic. In the official documents or when you fill out a form, last name goes first, then first name and patronymic. So it looks like this:
Russians say ‘Laughter without reason is a sign of stupidity,’ (Too much laughter discovers folly) because Russian humor is full of deeper meaning and implication. Perhaps it is better understood by Russians themselves because no one has yet challenged the famous saying ‘one cannot translate the Russian soul into any other language.’ And a one laughs when he is happy. So what makes Russians happy?
Every time we go to events, conduct trainings or seminars – teachers, parents and most of the participants share with us their wishes, requests and hopes for new books. We are eagerly listening and diligently working on making those wishes come true.