Nina Weinstein

Professor James Dean Brown, Dr. Marianne Celce-Murcia, and many other linguists quote extensively from Nina Weinstein's work on real spoken English.

Nina Weinstein is from Los Angeles, California. She has a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of California, Los Angeles, and she was a teaching fellow at Harvard University. She wrote the first textbook that taught English as we REALLY speak it, "Whaddaya Say". She originally field-tested "Whaddaya Say" with her students at Harvard, and later, with her students at Mazda Motors of America and Toyota Motor Sales. "Whaddaya Say" is a bestselling listening book that has gone through more than 45 printings, including three editions, and is used all over the world.

She wrote a novel that was nominated for two American Library Association awards and voted a "Best Book" by the New York Public Libraries, "No More Secrets". Because she could write fiction as well as textbooks, she was asked to become a member of an international writing team that created an educational television series using fiction to teach English -- "Connect with English" (Annenberg Foundation/Harvard University/WGBH).

As the "English Doctor" for Voice of America Radio, Nina Weinstein was the first educator to teach English live on Facebook, which she did daily.

She has over 40,000 English language students from 149 countries in her online classes on Udemy