My background

 Kristina Salmela (Korotkikh)

• born 1985 in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia.

• graduated from Petrozavodsk State University in 2008 as translator and teacher of Finnish as a foreign language.

• have been working as a teacher of Finnish for children and adults at school and privately since 2008.

•  worked as a suggestopedian teacher in Tampere at Onnenkieli (language school) for 5 months. Afterwards felt in love with suggestopedian method of teaching! :)

• moved to Joensuu in January 2013 to study Russian as a foreign language at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF).

• certified the Russian pedagogic qualification at UEF in December 2013. 

• acquired the National Certificate of Language Proficiency according to which Finnish language skills have been assessed at C2 level.