Olena Synchak received her PhD from the Department of General Linguistics at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in October 2010. She received a masters degree from the Department of Applied Linguistics in 2007, and also from the Masters Program in Cultural Studies in 2008.Consequently, Olena combines linguistic and cultural aspects in her teaching; actively drawing exercises from public speaking training. In addition to usual lessons, she also teaches via Skype.