My name is Chantalle Bergh. I’m from South Africa and I’m 29 years old. I studied Choreography and Pedagogy at the Kazan State Institute of Culture in Kazan, Russia, from 2017-2022. I studied exclusively Russian for the first year and then continued with my four-year degree. Upon my return to South Africa, I opened a ballet academy. I have invited the Russian Embassy in South Africa to our first gala concert in 2023.
In 2024, I saw the Russian Embassy in South Africa posting about the Russian language course on their social media page and decided that I wanted to continue improving my Russian, so that I wouldn’t forget what I had already learned in Russia. I signed up for the course because it was free and an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.
I liked the course very much. Zoom classes are very convenient and the teacher is very kind and professional. The content is very good. I got to revise what I’d learnt in Russia, and it felt like I got a second chance to understand the grammar rules better, better than the first time I studied them.
I will definitely keep revising what I’ve learnt.