Hi! My name's Irina. I'm a linguist and teacher by education. I've got a university degree in linguistics and cross-cultural communication obtained in 1999. My major at university was methods of teaching English as a foreign language but I also studied the Russian language, literature and history of Russia. Besides that, I'm a native Russian speaker. So I can teach Russian as a foreign language as well. I've been working as a teacher of English and Russian as foreign languages for more than 16 years by now including private tuition (both face-to-face and online lessons via Skype). I worked as a teacher of English as a foreign language both at school and university (11 years). I've got 37 articles on linguistics, methods of teaching foreign languages and written instructions for students published in Russia (1999-2010). I've been living and working in the UK as a private tutor of English and Russian as foreign languages since 2011. So I'll be happy to become your tutor.