“Pronunciation is a very important aspect that to a great extent defines how well we speak a foreign language. It is the first essential thing that forms the first impression when you start speaking. The good thing about pronunciation skills is that they can be improved and this is exactly what happened to me at our classes with Tamara Prokofyeva when I was a first year student at Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia). She always explained every detail about all the sounds, their specific features and the way they should be pronounced. At our lessons we practiced extensively with various materials and recordings. I absolutely owe it to these lessons that my pronunciation greatly improved and allowed me among other things to eventually become an interpreter.”