The first of many, I hope. I'm Sheila and I've been teaching online English for over 5 years. Italki seems cool. I'm also revisiting the Russian I learned as a college student. Listened to a podcast recently and could understand all of 5 words from all that 'porridge of words'. But after listening to it 3 or 4 times, it all started coming back ...in waves. The mind is amazing!