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The Hosts

Erik Fritz Erik Fritz
Erik Fritz is currently a university lecturer in the Tokyo area. He has lived abroad in four countries, including the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan where he studied Russian for over two years. He enjoys playing tennis, mountain biking and a good game of Scrabble. He is excited to be a part of the RussianPod101 team and eager for the opportunity to learn from, and along with, the listeners!
Anna Lemeshkina Anna Lemeshkina
Anna was born and raised in a Russian family in Uzbekistan, as her parents moved from Russia to Uzbekistan during the Soviet Union.

After graduating from the University, where she studied International Economic Relations, Anna worked as a Loan officer at a commercial bank. As she was always interested in Japanese culture and language, she decided to study in Japan for her graduate degree. Currently, she is an MBA student of the Hitotsubashi ICS School in Tokyo and apart from studying enjoys traveling, singing and clubbing. She thinks that the opportunity to teach the Russian language in English while living in Tokyo is a once-in-a-lifetime chance and hopes to make it an unforgettable experience for the RussianPod101.com listeners and herself.

Alexander Alexander Semayev
Hello to everyone!
I’m Alex. I’m a native Russian speaker. I have lived for a longtime in Ukraine, Poland and then in France. I love languages and I will do my best to teach the language that I love - Russian!
Elena Elena Bonat
I’m a native Russian speaker. I was born in Moscow but now I live in the French Alps, right near the Italian border. My greatest passion is learning and teaching languages, and I have long experience of teaching both English and Russian, in real life and on-line. I started giving one-to-one lessons of English when I was still at university, and I fell in love with teaching. As soon as I graduated, I did a TEFL course and went on to teach English in a language school near Moscow. On RussianPod101.com I work as a Russian teacher, a content developer and a community liason. Besides that, I’m a professional Russian tutor (I give one-to-one lessons of Russian via Skype). I’m also the owner of a web site for Russian learners www.easyrussian.info where you can test your level and get a lot of free learning material. I like learning languages almost as much as I like teaching them so I know what being a student is like! I’m fluent in English and French, and I’m learning Italian at the moment. My other interests include literature, music and vegetarianism.