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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning Finnish, Japanese
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2013
  • studying; teaching
  • College education. Almost a university graduate (4th year).
  • From Syzran
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Seeing people to practice the languages I study and to teach Russian.

ABOUT ME

Hey. I'm into languages - that's mostly what you need to know about me. I've been studying English at college for 5 years (since I was 15 to 20 y.o.), and teaching English to children since 2009 (but, as I don't live in English-speaking country, I still have things to work at, of course). I'm majoring in teaching Russian as a foreign language. I teach Russian on Skype for a year already. I also study Japanese, that's my favoutite language.
Apart from the languages, well... I like rock music, movies (mostly dramas), books.

PHILOSOPHY

Your freedom ends where the freedom of somebody else's starts.
I don't ear meat or fish, but I won't tell you anything about it if you don't like me to. I'm tolerant of your orientation or religion.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm looking for British English, Japanese and Finnish native speakers. I can show you around, but I know nothing about bars, places to dance, so on... I don't drink or smoke, so I won't join you to a bar, but I don't mind other people smoking or drinking if they behave.
And sorry, I'm looking for language exchange, so if I'm not studying your language or if you're not from Poland, Norway or Italy (I like those languages too though I'm not studying them), you'd better find another guide.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Neophyte.

Interests

English, Japanese, Finnish, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, music, board games.

  • fish
  • books
  • dancing
  • drinking
  • movies
  • board games
  • music
  • rock music
  • fishing
  • teaching
  • languages
  • religion
  • tourism
  • language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Japanese films (Nagisa Osima "Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence", "絞死刑"; Hirokazu Koreeda "誰も知らない"; クワイエットルームにようこそ; 笑の大学).
Dramas (Greenaway, Lars von Trier, Mulholland drive, 3 women, The Squid and the Whale, Garden State).
I also like these: Обыкновенное чудо, , eXistenZ, Yellow Submarine, Breath (Вздох), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Interstate 60, Шерлок Холмс Масленникова
And some of Hitchcock's movies.
My favourite TV-shows are the Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, The Mighty Boosh, Father Ted, Закрытый показ, Гордон Кихот, Sponge Bob, Futurama, Daria, Dave the Barbarian, Adventure time, Regular show, Drawn together, It's always sunny in Filadelphia.
Books... I love Kobo Abe, Shyouhei Ooka, Bulgakov, Wells, Dostoyevsky, Golding, Bradbury, Edgar Poe, "Everything's illuminated" by Foer, Nabokov, Brodsky, "The Wasp Factory" by Benks, Franz Kafka, Alber Camus, Sartre.
http://myshows.ru/mister_oyster
http://www.lastfm.ru/user/Raydiculous http://www.kinopoisk.ru/user/1452151

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I don't think I've done anything amazing yet. I'm not very eager too, actually.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like to learn and practise Japanese and British English. I teach you Russian if you're looking for a teacher. I give professional lessons or simple speaking practice.

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