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Learning and improving your language skills

Visiting or working in Russia?  Just arrived in the UK, feeling lost in a different world and needing to improve your everyday English skills?  Need somebody to talk to for help and advice?  I can probably help...

Who am I?

My name is Charles O'Flynn, I am a native English speaker who started learning Russian in March 1977 and have taught Russian language at Portsmouth University.  I've lived in St. Petersburg and worked all over Russia from west of St. Petersburg, Moscow, through Yarainer, Tyumen and Novosibirsk to Yakutsk in the far East, covering Oil and Gas, Electrical/Civil Engineering, Software production and localisation, Airport infrastructure, Aircraft design and Nuclear power. A past chairman of the Russian Circle, my wife Olga and I remain active members.

What do I do?

• Teaching Russian from complete beginners to advanced improvers, (currently adults only);
• Teaching English from complete beginners to advanced improvers, (currently adults only);
• Translating/redacting documents and web sites to and from Russian, including technical texts;
• Mock interviews;
• High quality Curricula Vitæ;
• Software localisation;
• Interpretation services (when available);
• All written work checked by native speakers;
• Assessment / first lesson free!

If this sound like it might be of interest, you'd like more information or you just want to ask a question, please send me an email