Russian-English lessons exchange?

[oi3u45hj09f3.livejournal.com]

Hi,

Would anyone living in the south bay area, California, be interested in exchanging Russian conversation lessons for English conversation lessons :)?

I'm a Russian native speaker, so I can easily help you with your homework, speak Russian with you, etc. I'm not sure I'll be able to explain all the "formal" language rules to you, as it's been long since I studied them.
In exchange I'd like to practice my conversational English with a native English speaker.

Interested, anyone?

Comments

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you really really want to be useful and have good answers to the complex questions that you'll inevitably get and not just blank looks or "um, I dunno, maybe...", by all means, get yourself a book on the Russian grammar and study it first. You and your student will appreciate that. It's a huge difference between just knowing a language natively and that plus being able to systematically explain the explainable and logical in a structured way and point at the irregular and illogical things that must be memorized through a series of exercises. I've always questioned in English more than my teachers could explain because they never went that deep (due to various constraints) or just didn't care enough to do a diligent work. I wish they could explain all the regular stuff structurally with rules without wasting much of their and my time and also provide me with known irregular patterns. Most of them did a so-so job with the regular stuff and all the irregular stuff was essentially left as an exercise to me and beyond the scope of the class. Try to be better. :)

[rjray.livejournal.com]

I'm currently taking private tutoring in Russian from a person who's a native speaker and former French language professor from Uzbekistan. While this has been easier to do than commit to a college course, it's also been somewhat slow-going. I seem to be doing alright, it just gets frustrating sometime, to not be able to express more complex thoughts in Russian. I'm essentially back to a first-grade reading/writing level :-). It's my own fault for waiting until I'm 39 to learn my first foreign language...

Myngle.com

[langyashka.livejournal.com]

If you are interested in finding a teacher of Russian and you can also teach English yourself, then a good place will probably be www.myngle.com. They are launching the platfom in December this year, so you will be able to study Russian with e.g. native speakers from Russia and you can also leverage your own language skills by teaching someone else. It's looking really great, with Skype and online tools like live whiteboard, podcasts, home assignments, etc. And it's a free market for students and teachers/schools so you can pick your own teacher/method. A good spot to keep an eye on.