Hello, my name is Alexander Bychkov and I'm 56 years old and currently living in Russia. I am a native Russian speaker and teach Russian. I have been an online Russian teacher with Verbalplanet since April 2009.
I can speak the following languages fluently: Russian, English.
I am currently offering a discounted initial trial lesson at 50% of my normal lesson price for new students.
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My Latest Feedback
09 Jul 2020
LK
Excellent. Got through so much, and already have many new words and some grammar points to repeat to myself !
20 May 2020
DavidL
I found Alexander an extremely good teacher who was able to analyse and correct my errors, and give me confidence in my speaking. He wrote the correct forms so I could just concentrate on speaking, not notetaking. The level of interest of our free-ranging conversation too was excellent, he seemed to know seek out, and follow up, my areas of interest which happily coincided with his own. I'm very happy with my first trial class. David
06 Apr 2020
peb01
Alexander immediately understood my needs and my interests. Already in the first lesson he proposed a text of one of my favorites authors. As training in conversation and activation and enhancement of my vocabulary is my main need we switched the to reading daily actualities in the newspaper. this helps me a lot an builds up my vocabulary of everyday language. I will certainly continue to take lessons with Alexander. His teaching skills are professional and his style is very personable.
21 Feb 2020
Jay Michael d
Excellent teacher and lessons!
19 Feb 2020
Jay Michael d
A great patient teacher. He's been building my lessons around my progress.
02 Oct 2019
Sarah P
Great lesson with Alexander as always! I look forward to advancing in Russian
I’m 50 and that usually implies quite big life experience and level of wisdom. I hope that’s really so in my case.
I’m married with two daughters and a son. My older daughter successfully did her after graduate course in Moscow State university and our youngest son is 4 years old. And this adds some more life experience, right?
I was born and brought up in the Southern Kazakhstan, graduated from a pedagogical university and lived for 20 years in Bashkortostan (central Russia, the Urals). I served in the army for 1.5 year in Poland. Now I’m living in a city next to Volgograd. This is my life geography.
I appreciate a good sense of humor in people. I love thinking and talking about life in general and detail, reading something from outstanding philosophers and trying to philosophize.
Qualifications & Experience
I graduated from a pedagogical institute in Ufa in 1988. After my graduation, I taught Russian and World History, and English as a foreign language for a while but then focused on English only. I’ve been teaching children (6 year-olds and up) and adults (different levels of language skills) with equal success.
I’ve been teaching English and Russian on-line since June 2008 and gained a lot of useful experience working with Brazilians and Frenchmen, Spanish, Arabian, Ukrainian, British and many other cultures. In 2011, I did a course of teaching Russian as a foreign language in Moscow State University (Lomonosov) and since then I've been more successful in teaching my native, Russian language.
I’ll be happy to share my knowledge and experience in learning and using those two different but both rich and strong languages (by the way, they have lots in common).
Teaching Approach
70 to 90 per cent of my efforts in teaching I devote to improving my students’ vocabulary in communication, doing exercises and getting acquainted with live modern (web ‘newspapers’ and ‘magazines’) and classical language samples.
I teach everyday English and Russian as well as business English.
I work much with sound files to develop listening skills, which usually are most problematic for native Russian as well as native English speakers.
English grammar usually appears to be a smaller problem comparing with the former aspects of the languages but in the case of Russian grammar gets much bigger place, similarly to pronunciation.
Мне 50, что предполагает немалый жизненный опыт и мудрость. Надеюсь, что так оно и есть.
Я родился и вырос в Казахстане, получил высшее педагогическое образование и прожил 20 лет в Башкирии. Сейчас живу рядом с Волгоградом. В армии служил в Польше. Вот моя география.
Ценю людей с хорошим чувством юмора. Люблю поразмышлять и поговорить о жизни - пофилософствовать, так сказать.
Qualifications & Experience
Закончил пединститут в 1988 и с тех пор обучаю людей английскому и истории.
Одинаково успешно работал и с детьми с 6-летнего возраста, и со взрослыми людьми с разным уровнем знаний английского языка (от начального до продвинутого). Могу оказать значительную помощь в освоении технического и бизнес английского.
Teaching Approach
С июня 2008 преподаю онлайн. Обучал бразильцев, арабов, французов, испанцев, украинцев, британцев, японцев, корейцев и представителей других национальностей. Обучал и русскому и английскому, приобрел немалый и довольно успешный опыт.
Буду счастлив поделиться знаниями и опытом с Вами.
