Dasha and Anton are my partners on partnertrain. They are both there to teach beginners and those who are not ready to work with a native speaker.  Like myself, both of them offer a free consultation before taking a new student.

Dasha handles all our adult pre-beginner and beginner students. She has a master's degree in Linguistics and Literature from Free University of Brussels, a 120-hour TESOL certificate from World TESOL Academy and an IELTS 8. She has six years of English teaching experience both offline and online. She was a technical document translator at the German company SPORTident, and an English teacher at a summer camp in Turkey. Dasha acquired her love of teaching in elementary school when she began to teach English to her younger sister. In addition to English, Dasha speaks French and Spanish, and is now learning German. Her own experience learning different languages is a great benefit to her own understanding of language acquisition and teaching methods. Her interests include, literature, cooking and IT. She also has experience studying and working in the United States, Belgium, Germany, and Turkey.

Anton is a special teacher for intensive courses for those who want to start speaking in a short amount of time. He was the first Ukrainian student accepted into the Canada World Youth program in 1997 and Up With People in 2000. In this program he travelled to forty countries, thirty-eight American states. He has been an English teacher for 15 years. He has lived in England so he knows British as well as American English. He works as a pronunciation and dialect coach to actors, musicians, and business people. He is the in-house English teacher for executives from Philips Ukraine and currently teaches board members from Privat Bank.