News archives 2005
December
In December 2005 the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language is pleased to announce a special offer for students from Turkey, India and China wishing to study Russian with Language Link. You will receive a 7% discount on group and individual tuition irrespective of the programme. Now recruiting for the following groups:
Beginners: lessons Wednesday and Friday, 11.30-14.00
Beginners: lessons Wednesday and Friday, 19.30-21.00
Beginners (intensive): daily lessons from Monday to Friday, 10.00-12.15 (from 05.12.05)
Pre-intermediate (intensive): daily lessons from Monday to Friday 10.00-13.15 (from 05.12.05)
Intermediate: lessons Tuesday and Thursday, 11.20-12.50
Intermediate: lessons Monday and Thursday, 10.45-13.15 and 12.00-14.30 respectively
Intermediate (intensive): daily lessons from Monday to Friday, 10.00-13.15 (from 05.12.05)
Advanced: sign up for an evening groupLook out for our special offer in January 2006 for students from Spain and Portugal.
Brand new! Practical Russian for expatriate wives! Language Link is proud to offer a unique new opportunity for expatriate wives to study Russian. We are now accepting applications for morning and afternoon classes. In December you will be offered a 10% discount for group lessons (1560 roubles per week in a group of 5 students) - make new friends and experience the homely atmosphere of our school! Please contact us for more information.
November
In November 2005 the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language is pleased to announce a special offer for students from Scandinavia. We are happy to invite students from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark to study Russian with Language Link. You will receive a 7% discount on group and individual tuition irrespective of the programme. Now recruiting for the following groups:
Beginners: lessons Monday and Thursday, 11.00-13.15
Beginners: lessons Monday and Thursday, 19.30-21.45
Beginners (intensive): lessons Monday to Friday, 10.00-12.15 (from 14.11.05)
Pre-intermediate (intensive): lessons Monday to Friday 10.00-13.15 (from 14.11.05)
Intermediate: lessons Monday and Thursday, 10.30-12.45
Intermediate: lessons Monday and Thursday, 12.00-13.30 and 11.30-13.00 respectively
Intermediate (intensive): lessons Monday to Friday, 10.00-13.15 (from 14.11.05)
Advanced: sign up for an evening groupLook out for our special offer in December for students from Turkey, India and China.
Brand new! Learn Ukrainian at Language Link! Language Link is proud to offer a unique new opportunity to study Ukrainian. We are now accepting applications for both general and intensive courses. Our qualified staff follow the methodology of Lvov University, teaching "modern and living Ukrainian language". The courses will undoubtedly inspire you to visit the Ukraine, see Kiev, Lvov, Odessa and the Crimea for yourself, and practise your new language skills. Contact us for more information.
October
In October 2005 the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language is pleased to announce a special offer for students from Eastern Europe. We are happy to invite students from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and elsewhere to study Russian with Language Link. You will receive a 7% discount on group and individual tuition irrespective of the programme. We are now recruiting for the following groups:
Beginners: lessons Monday-Wednesday, 11.00-13.15
Beginners: lessons Monday-Thursday, 19.30-21.45
Beginners (intensive): lessons Monday-Friday, 10.00-12.15
Intermediate: lessons Monday-Thursday, 10.30-12.45
Intermediate: lessons Monday-Thursday, 10.00-11.30
Intermediate (intensive): lessons Monday-Friday, 10.00-13.15
Advanced: sign up for an evening group
September
In September we welcome the first wave of this year's British university students who have chosen to spend a semester studying Russian with our specialist staff at LL Moscow as part of their degrees. A tailor-made academic programme, focussing on a wide variety of subjects embracing Russian language, literature and culture, coupled with a diverse excursion programme, promise to give the students the best possible opportunity to make the most of their time in Russia.
August
August has seen the arrival of a group of new students with an alternative approach to learning - Work-Study. Aspiring EFL teachers from UK, USA and Canada are currently undergoing intensive teacher training at LL Moscow before dispersing to centres in Moscow, St Petersburg and Volgograd where they will combine Russian study with teaching English. Not only are they benefiting from studying Russian in Russia (proven to be the most successful means of language acquisition), but they are also gaining international work experience teaching English. We hope they enjoy their stay working and studying with Language Link!
July
July 2005 saw the launch of a new programme for international students coming to learn Russian in Volgograd: Russian study through excursions. The lessons were held in a variety of places including the "Cossack Kuren" Museum of National Architecture and Life, the Mamaev Kurgan memorial complex, the museum of 18th century Volga Germans called the Old Sarepta, and on the territory of the Volga-Don canal. In the classroom the teacher provided the students with essential grammar and lexical materials which then helped them to understand the guided tours, discuss related themes, compose dialogues, describe what they had seen, and read short texts. One lesson particularly enjoyed by all was "Russian Cookery" in which the students themselves cooked okroshka and shashlyk, explaining how they did it in Russian.
All the students wrote kind words about their summer spent in Volgograd in the visitors' book:
Percy Toop (Canada) - "Here we feel like home", "I have fond memories of Volgograd"
Jean Michel Jillet (Belgium) - "The best educational Russian Language Centre I visited before"
Stephen Warnes " I had a very good time in Volgograd and next year I'm sure that I will return to Russia for studies"
June
In May and June, Language Link is running a summer semester programme for a group of students from Goucher College and John Hopkins University, USA . For one month the students will be attending intensive Russian language classes and studying the cultural life of Moscow and St Petersburg. Language Link has prepared an exciting programme of excursions, concerts, river cruises, theatre and circus trips, including visits to the Golden Ring towns Vladimir and Suzdal. Especially for our American guests, we invited the famous Benedict Sarnov and Ksenia Golubovich to give a lecture on life in post-perestroika Russia. This is the first ever summer semester of Goucher College and John Hopkins University at Language Link, and we look forward to welcoming their students again and again in the years to come.
May
This April has seen the launch of 'Vacation Revision', the latest opportunity for university students to benefit from Language Link teachers' experience and expertise in academic Russian. Two groups of students from Cambridge University, UK, joined us in Moscow during their Easter break to brush up on their language skills and cultural knowledge in preparation for end of term exams. Giving up part of the holidays to study Translation, Literature, Grammar, Conversation and Language of the Media might not seem much fun, but in the words of Lawrence, who attended the course:
"I took part in frenzied and passionate discussions; I used Russian more intensively and effectively than ever before. I learnt much from highly skilled and expert teachers - including Elena Kallo, whom I would single out for praise for her top-quality lessons which were precisely what we needed and an enormous help! In short, I had a memorable and inspiring experience at Language Link."
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