Working with Advanced Foreign-Language Students

Boris Vladimirovich Shekhtman was born on April 8, 1939. He grew up in Kiev, Ukraine. He received a master's degree in Russian language from the Grozny Pedagogical Institute (now part of Chechen State University). He arrived in the United States in 1979. He taught at the Foreign Service Institute before starting Specialized Language Training Center. He taught conversational Russian to a generation of American journalists, diplomats and entrepreneurs. He published several manuals including How To Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately. He died from complications of lymphoma on March 18, 2017 at the age of 77.

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