4-week Russian Language Intensive Courses
An Opportunity for Beginners and Intermediate Students
13th – 26th June 2022 (intensive lessons – 2 groups at different times during the day)
27th June- 11th July 2022 (practising language skills in a Russian community)
In summer 2022 we are offering intensive 1-month-long Russian Language courses at Beginner and Intermediate levels. Over 4 weeks, students will be on an intensive 2 weeks of lessons, with an additional 2 weeks of experiencing life in Russia practise your language skills. The month-long course will be held at Orion Children’s Community, within a small, intimate community giving plenty of opportunity to practice conversation and interact with the members and their children. Maximum five people in each group.
How is this different from all the other Russian Language Courses on offer?
Two weeks of Intensive Lessons, 4 hours per day. Overall you receive 40 hours of lessons with highly skilled and enthusiastic teachers who has been members of the Kitezh-Orion communities for several years. Yulya Lyubimtseva is a philologist, specialised in Russian Language and Literature. Zhenya Ryazhskaya has a Teaching Russian as a foreign language diploma, and loves teaching. They will give you individual attention and expert tuition in Russian Grammar, Language and Literature.
Lessons are followed by 10 days of integration: living with families in the community. You can join in the daily activities in Orion, working alongside Russian speakers to improve your language skills. You can spend time playing with the children, helping out in the kitchen or garden and working on the ongoing building projects. In the summer, students from around the world come to volunteer at Orion so there is a fun and active group of young people there. Evenings are bound to include singing around a bonfire, Russian style.
The Russian Language Course was definitely the highlight. Yulya is an exceptional teacher – very kind, patient, intelligent, and extremely knowledgeable, and really good at explaining the complicated grammar rules. The classes were very well structured, including the grammar tuition which we needed but also many exercises which expanded our vocabulary, practiced our speaking and also enhanced our translation skills. And the fact that the groups were really small is very good for fast learning since it allowed us to speak a lot and to get a lot of attention from the teacher.
3 days in Moscow at the end of your stay is an option.
Students wishing to gain more hands-on experience are welcome to apply to stay longer during the weeks before/after the course as a volunteer at Orion Children’s Community and get a more in-depth experience of life in Russia.
Cost:
4 weeks course: £1295*
This includes 42 hours tuition, accommodation for 4 weeks with full board, transfer from Moscow and back, and visa support.
Additional month(s) as a volunteer are charged at £170 per month plus £75 for an extended visa.
*This does not include the Russian Consular visa fee, nor does it include travel insurance or airfare to Moscow.
