Online lessons
Full lessons wherever you are, over video. The right choice if your time is tight.
€45 / hour
English and Russian · Marbella and Estepona
The language you finally speak in
Twenty years of teaching, my own method and real practice — for children and adults, online and on the coast.
20+years teaching
3languages taught
5.0on Google Maps
Lessons
Choose the format that suits you
English and Russian, for children and adults. The first lesson sets the level and the plan.
Lessons at your home
The premium format: the teacher comes to you, at home.
€50 / hour
Lessons at my study
Full immersion with nothing to distract you. Estepona, seven minutes from San Pedro.
€45 / hour
Inside a lesson
See for yourself
Real fragments of lessons in different formats: difficult topics taken apart without rote learning, interactive material, and the focus kept on the result.
English classes4 min
Russian classes2 min
Meet Ekaterina1 min
Who teaches
Ekaterina Bolgova
I have been teaching for more than twenty years. From the age of sixteen I lived in the United Kingdom, where for a long time I taught English to newly arrived immigrants. In time I developed my own method, built around every language skill rather than one.
I have interpreted at the highest level of government — for the Governor of the Rostov Region and the Mayor of Rostov-on-Don during visits by Scottish delegations, and at international sporting events including the Russian President's Judo Cup. For three years I was personal interpreter to the King of Nigeria, John Feyvors, and to the Indian author Jayapataka Swami.
For seven years I worked in external relations on landmark projects in Rostov-on-Don: the city's largest printing house, together with Graphic Web Systems B.V. of the Netherlands, Scholpp of Germany and EAE of England; and the Splash sports and leisure complex, with TREE AG of Germany, PricewaterhouseCoopers of Austria, Montana Snowcenter of the Netherlands and SnowTek of Finland.
I spent three years lecturing in English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Rostov State Pedagogical University. That experience is what let me open my own school, Best English.
My own teaching method
Interpreter at government level
University lecturer, 3 years
Sixteen years living in the UK
The method
Why it works
Every lesson gives time to speaking, reading, translation, listening and grammar. The result you are after — understanding the language and speaking it — is built from all five, not one. Speaking sessions hold a topic without slipping back into your own language, which is how new words actually stick. Grammar sessions do allow your own language, because that is how you grasp exactly when a tense is used.
In my view, total immersion is not sensible for grammar. Two things are asked of the student: come regularly, and do the homework. I will say it plainly — learning a language takes effort, like anything worth having. I will help, guide, prompt and organise the process properly. The rest is down to you.
SpeakingA topic held without switching back
ListeningReal speech, not a recording voice
GrammarExplained in your language where it helps
Reading and translationText you understand all the way through
Russian
For children growing up abroad
Russian lessons build literacy: reading, writing, understanding a text and speaking it out loud. The lessons also work on the thinking underneath — logic, memory, attention, concentration, and the ability to reason towards a conclusion and solve a problem.
Translation
Spoken and written, EN ⇄ RU
Documents, articles, website copy, proofreading and editing of advertising, print and technical material. Interpreting at meetings and negotiations, online or by phone, linguistic support for projects, and interpreting at ceremonies.
Interpreting
€50 / hour
minimum one hour
Written translation
€0.10 / word
minimum €50 per document
Telephone interpreting
€50 / hour
minimum one hour
Linguistic support
by arrangement
depends on the scope
Written translation: 50% in advance, the balance on delivery. Interpreting: paid in full on completion.
The team
Here to get you there
Ekaterina Bolgova
English and Russian · founder
Twenty years of teaching, her own method, interpreting at government level.
M
Milana Kim
Spanish
Helps children through the Primaria, Secundaria and Bachillerato school programme, and prepares them for the DELE exam.
Your own room
Learning carries on between lessons
Every student has their own room — on the site and inside Telegram. Lessons, homework with my comments on it, points and reminders.
Lessons and materialsVideo, notes and files from every lesson, in order.
Homework, markedSend it here; it comes back explained, not crossed out.
Points and badgesProgress you can see. It keeps children going.
Reminders in TelegramLesson, homework and live class arrive where you already are.
Live classes
Open classes, right on the site
No Zoom, nothing to install. When a class is on it plays right on this page, with a chat and a recording afterwards.
Get in touch
Tell me what you need
A sentence is enough. I answer the same day.