Nikola knows English like an educated native speaker, and her standard British accent is extremely convincing, to the point where she needed to regain her awareness of pronunciation issues faced by her ESL students. Pronunciation is actually something that a proficient non-native speaker can teach better than most native speakers, as most people (including a majority of professional language teachers) have no idea of how they *really* pronounce their native language. Over several lessons, we worked on her listening skills and discussed phonology, phonetics, phonotactics, prosody, and methods of teaching students to use their articulatory organs to improve their pronunciation. Nikola applied these methods during the course of several months, and she is definitely on the right track.

Each lesson with Nikola is more interesting than the last!

It’s always a great pleasure working with Nikola. Not only is her English level amazing, but she’s even into the finer points of phonology and (of particular interest to her students) efficient techniques for helping every type of student achieve the best possible pronunciation in their target language.

Great job! (Specific, actionable feedback in private, as always.)