Преподаватель русского языка?

[drevo-obezyani.livejournal.com]

I have two questions about the phrase "я преподаватель русского языка" -

1) What is преподаватель? I know "преподавать" is "to teach" but i'm not familiar with this form of the word - it seems to me it should be "преподаю" or "преподавала."

2) Why is русского языка in genitive rather than accusative case?

Comments

[kite-head.livejournal.com]

Oh no worries! Again, sorry if it seemed rude. But that is very fascinating. I did, however, know abotu the Prepositional/Prepositive. I've even seen older textbooks that refer to it as the Locative (which it is analogous to, but Locative (from my understanding) is borrowed from Latin)).

Congrats on getting certified to teach Russian as a foreign language. That sounds amazing. Turkish and Spanish you say; what other languages do you speak?