Yuriy K.
- Raleigh, NC 27606 ( 31.5 mi )
- Expert Russian Tutor
- Male Age 47
- Member Since: 06/2013
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $15.00 to $35.00 /hr
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My comments on tutoring Russian : Native speaker of Russian with Master's Degrees earned in Russian and in English
I have been tutoring students of Russian for 7 years, on and off. Russian, quite frankly, is a difficult tongue to learn in adulthood, with its sprawling grammar system and many changing word endings; I believe that vocabulary generation and sentence construction are should be prioritized over grammar during early stages of learning so that student become active user of the language early on. I take every measure to help students feel active and empowered rather than overwhelmed by an alien hostile force; students are encouraged to be intuitive and creative with whatever vocabulary they have already internalized rather than be paralyzed by rigid adherence to the quite onerous grammar.