Individual Russian Language Courses

The enrolment to the individual courses is open year-round. You can choose to come study for only two academic hours a week or for as many as 40 academic hours weekly of intensive course. We are very flexible in arranging each program and willing to adapt it to your personal needs.

What can your program consist of?

Russian Language Classes make the core of any course. Our General Language Course gives the students a thorough foundation in spoken Russian and teaches basic structural patterns, grammar, phonetics, and reading and listenning comprehension skills. At intermediate and advanced levels students can develop their speaking and writing skills through work with literary and conversational texts, contemporary Russian films, and topical subjects from the Russian press. They may also choose to translate a variety of contemporary texts from the science, technology, business, and the media. A diverse choice of elective courses complements the General Language Course and allows students to focus on personal interests and needs.

• Communicative Grammar
• Phonetic and Intonation Patterns
• Difficult Cases of Russian Usage
• Russian Conversational Etiquette
• Russian Written Communication
• Russian in Business
• The Language of the Russian Media
• Text Interpretation and Analysis
• Translation
• Russian Phraseology
• Creative Writing

Culture and Area Studies:

• Political Readings and Discussions
• Russian Economy Overview
• Urban Policies and Regional Development
• History of Russian Philosophy
• Russian History
• History of Religion
• Russian Literature
• Soviet and Russian Film Industry
• Russian Composers
• Iconpainting

Apart from classroom tuition we invite you to participate in various field-trips, guided excursions, personal research projects.