John Fotheringham says:

Max, I’m just about to take out a lifetime membership and wanted to say thanks to you and Julia for the fantastic materials you have produced. I am a German teacher at a school here in Scotland and, having wanted to learn Russian, searched long and hard before I came upon your wonderful website. You take exactly the right approach using Krashan’s comprehensible input theory and I would advise others trying to teach Russian, and other languages, to follow your example. I am very much a beginner, of course, so I have a long, long way to go before I can understand much, but learning is fun and for someone who has never been to the country, it is truly fascinating to get a glimpse of real life in Russia. Just to finish off, I have a very good friend, a retired languages teacher, who, you may be interested to know, was one of a few teachers selected to take part in an accelerated Russian language course taught by ex army linguists who had been trained during the Second World War. He became very proficient in Russian but he only taught it for a few years before Russian fell out of favour. Now, you can no longer study the language in Scottish schools, a sad fact, and a reflection of our government’s dilettante approach to language learning. Anyway, he also loves your work and like me wants to encourage you to keep doing what you are doing. All the best, John.