Nina Weinstein embodies the strengths of Coursera and Udemy.  She has a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of California, Los Angeles.  She wrote twenty-one English textbooks for major publishers such as Pearson Education, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Heinle & Heinle, etc. that are held in libraries such as MIT, Oxford University, New York University, Kyushu University, etc. She was "the English Doctor" for Voice of America Radio, where she was one of the first people to teach English live on Facebook to hundreds of thousands of people in countries around the world. 

                                            She was a teaching fellow at Harvard University, where she taught all skills, and an early version of her custom course in listening to authentic spoken English. She tested the first edition of her spoken English listening book, "Whaddaya Say", while she was at Harvard.  "Whaddaya Say" is a bestselling book (Pearson Education, about 45 printings; currently in its third edition with Pro Lingua Learning). Hundreds of thousands of learners all over the world understand how native speakers really speak through this book. 

                                             For the corporate world, she's created all-skills English programs and taught custom listening courses at companies such as Toyota Motor Sales (for two decades), Mazda Motors of America, Tatung, Sumitomo, and various universities and online programs.  She's spoken all over the world on real spoken English, written many academic articles, and trained teachers at the University of California, Irvine, California State University, Long Beach, and others. 

                                            Nina Weinstein cares about her students, and always has. If you have a goal, a question, or you'd just like to say, "Hello", please contact her.