das war ein sehr nettes Kennenlernen, die Stunde war wirklich unterhaltsam und interessant, ich freue mich auf nächste Gespräch!

Sergey spoke at length about his work today, easily explaining complex and diverse concepts and situations, while making very few mistakes. I say mistakes for want of a better word, because almost all of them are grammatically correct and convey the right meaning, but aren’t quite what a native speaker would say. This is a testament to the extremely high level of Sergey‘s English. And he‘s eager for corrections, often coming up with the right phrase or idiomatic expression on his own. Talking with Sergey is always interesting. He has a remarkable mind.

Sergey expressed himself extremely well, speculating with ease on the future ramifications of Artificial Intelligence.

In this session, Sergey had questions about English words that are pronounced identically, but whose spelling and meaning are different. He also brought up several groups of one syllable words, whose only difference was the vowel sound, to check his pronunciation of these different vowel sounds. He displays a level of motivation and focus I've not encountered before as an Italki teacher, and I can only say I consider myself fortunate to have him as a student.