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About Your Professor

Nina Weinstein, a native English-speaking professor and an expert in real spoken English, has many years of experience teaching learners, training teachers, and writing textbooks and academic articles, including:

Nina's books in libraries all over the world

Nina's books on amazon.com


Instructional Design/Teaching
  • Teaching Fellow, Harvard University  -- Nina began her specialization in real spoken English at Harvard. She taught all language skills, including a custom, real English listening course that eventually became her bestselling listening and accent reduction book, Whaddaya Say. ("Whaddaya Say", 45 printings, including first and second editions).  "Whaddaya Say", is quoted by listening experts, and used at universities and businesses all over the world.
 
  • Voice of America –  Nina was Voice of America’s “English Doctor” on their Facebook page, which grew to almost 200,000 learners while she was there.  She was the first educator to teach English live on Facebook. She calls this technique “Faceteaching”. She was also their chief online instructional designer.
 
  • Business English – Nina has taught business English (business conversation, business vocabulary, and listening to native English speakers) at some of the largest companies in the world -- Toyota Motor Sales (since 1999), Mazda Motors of America (for ten years), Seiko, Sumitomo in the United States, Tatung, and workplace employment training programs (ETP) for the State of California.
 
  • Universities –Several years of teaching all skills, all levels, including teacher training at California State University, Long Beach, etc. Recently, Nina trained professors from Sichuan University in higher education techniques.


Instructional Design/Educational Writing

  Nina has written twenty textbooks, including all-skills series, real English listening books, conversation books, vocabulary, readers, and business English books. Her books are in libraries including Oxford University, New York University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kyushu University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and others around the world.   

 
Testing    

Nina wrote Livemocha’s online English Placement Test for their website (fourteen million learners). In addition, she wrote a business English placement test. It tests the native speaker English of the workplace.

 

Why is Nina doing her own world classroom website?

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"In my many years as an educator, I’ve learned secrets that make English easier. Too many learners have studied English, but can't speak or understand it as well as they'd like. In today's world, we need English to talk to and understand real people. That's my specialty. I've been trained at the best places in this field, and I enjoy teaching English to anyone at any level. I've put some excellent materials and training into this website. I’d like everyone to have the best English lessons possible so they can reach their goals."