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JanuaryWinter programme for New Hampshire students
In January we were joined by students from the University of New Hampshire in America, who came to Language Link to take part in the programme ‘Russian Identity’. The guys were certainly kept busy – they travelled to Vladimir and St. Petersburg, they walked all over Moscow, they painted spoons in the museum of decorative applied art, they cheered on Dinamo at a hockey match and made borscht and pelmeni under the guidance of our khozyaiki. The winter programme is now coming to an end, and we are beginning work on the summer one.
DecemberEnd of semester for RLUS students.
December marked the end of the autumn semester, which had proved interesting and jam-packed. On December 15th we arranged a farewell ‘Russian tea party’, where the students put on a small number with Russian folk songs and dances. We are looking forward to welcoming the students again in spring.
NovemberParticipation in the ICEF exhibition, Berlin.
At this event, which took place from the end of October to the beginning of November, we met several agents who provide Russia-based Russian language courses for students in their respective countries. This was a very useful and inspiring experience, and after our return home we began work on updating our website and designing new course programmes. Watch this space, as our new site will be up and running in early 2012.
OctoberLanguage Link is due to participate in ICEF for the first time as an educator
Language Link is happy to report that for the first time we are taking part in the international conference ICEF, which will be held from October 30th until November 1st 2011 in Berlin, as an educator.
Maria Finashina, head of Russian as a Foreign Language Department, and Evgenia Stremova, one of its leading teachers, will be there to represent Language Link. We will present our new projects and Russian language programmes to a circle of agents from all over the world, and we hope to make some new contacts.
Winter programme in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire
It is our pleasure to announce that the registration of participants for the winter cultural-educational programme, run by Language Link between the 2nd and 21st January 2011, has begun. Language Link will be working together with the University of New Hampshire (Department of languages, literatures and cultures) on this programme. This programme is targeted at English-speaking students with beginner-level Russian, and includes 15 academic hours of lessons and a broad cultural studies programme with visits to museums, exhibitions and theatres. You can find more detailed information here
SeptemberRUSSIAN LANGUAGE GROUP COURSES TIMETABLE (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2011)
Intensive Russian for Beginners
Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr 10:00-13:15 (11:00-14:15)
21/09/2011 – 28/10/2011
03/10/2011 – 14/10/2011
17/10/2011 – 28/10/2011General Russian for Beginners
Mo, We 19.00-20.30;General Russian for Elementary
Mo, We 19.00-20.30General Russian for Pre-Intermediate
Mo, We 12.00-14.15General Russian for Pre-Intermediate
Tu, Th 09:00-10:30Conversational Russian for Pre-Intermediate
Tu, Th 11:45-13:15Conversational Russian for Intermediate I
Mo 13:30-15:00, We 11:45-13:15Conversational Russian for Intermediate II
Mo 13:30-15:00, We 11:45-13:15Russian Grammar for Pre-Intermediate
Mo 13:30-15:00, We 11:45-13:15Russian Grammar for Intermediate I
Mo 11:45-13:15, We 10:00-11:30Russian Grammar for Intermediate II
Mo 11:45-13:15, We 13:30-15:00
AugustCourse registration for the next academic year has begun
As classes begin in September, August is the time to think about and choose a language programme. We offer courses in Russian as a foreign language for various levels, at different intensities and at a convenient time. In the new academic year there will be beginners’ groups during the evening (two days a week, 2 academic hours each), a preparatory class for the Russian language state certificate (levels 1 and 2), intensive conversation courses and an academic programme for university students, which is due to start on 5th September.
The state exam at level 1 can be taken on 1st and 2nd September. Registration for this continues until August 25th.
JulyCOMPLETION OF INTENSIVE SUMMER RUSSIAN PROGRAMME IN MOSCOW
June 1st saw the end of our intensive, five-week summer programme “Moscow vacation 2011”, in which participated students from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, Edinburgh University, Scotland, and the Moscow Anglo-American School.
The students received a very intensive course. They studied Russian language in class for four hours every day, and after lunch took part in the programme “Moscow in the context of Russian culture”. Students visited the Kremlin Armoury, the Novodevichy monastery, the Boris Pasternak museum in Peredelkino, the chocolate factory, the Bunker museum of the cold war, and the ECO centre – an interesting new interactive ecological museum in Sparrow Hills. Every week the students attended the theatre. They especially enjoyed a gala show at the Mariinsky theatre in St. Petersburg, where graduates of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet performed excerpts of classical ballets.
The students visited Abramtsevo, Suzdal and Vladimir. They stayed in St. Petersburg for four days, and at the end of the programme took a trip to a dacha, where they grilled shashlik and tried Russian kvas.
Time flew by unnoticed. Sadly the students said goodbye to Moscow, after treating us to a slide show of their wonderful photographs, entitled “My Moscow”.
ADVENTURES OF ITALIANS IN RUSSIA – INTENSIVE RUSSIAN COURSE IN ST. PETERSBURG
From 16th to 30th June Language Link in St. Petersburg was visited by two groups of Italian teenagers from the Venetian college Instituto Tecnico Statale per il Turismo Francesco Algarotti, where they have been studying Russian for two or three years.
An intensive course with our teachers Tatiana Romanova and Olga Divina was waiting for them at our centre. In the Italian fashion, lessons went by at an electrifying speed, and were exciting, fun, expressive and highly charged.
The main focus of the lessons was aimed specifically towards development of students’ conversation skills – there were lots of role plays, an “Italian adaptation” of the music of Viktor Tsoi, and much more. Pictured – one of the groups with their teacher.
JuneRUSSIAN TEA – THE CLOSE OF THE SEMESTER FOR RLUS STUDENTS
On June 16, the school year concluded for RLUS students. As is traditional, “Russian Tea” was held as a closing accord; this is a tea party at which teachers and students exchange their impressions from the time they spent together. As usual, many warm words were heard from both the students and teachers. The students were presented with certificates attesting to their successful completion of the course and passage of the state Russian language examinations. The teachers were very pleased to receive cards with the most heartfelt and gracious of words, written by the students. All present took delight in a demonstration of culinary talent from one of the students. The final nail in the program was a presentation of an excerpt from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” which was prepared by the group FERT. The youths accepted the task assigned to them with full responsibility and demonstrated their theatrical mastery. We would like to express particular thanks to Evgenia Stremova, who was the art director and mastermind for this project.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STUDENTS FOR PASSING THE TORFL EXAMS!
The first and second certification level TORFL exams (TORFL B1 and B2) were held at Language Link on June 9 and 10. We at Language Link were particularly anxious to find out the results for this group of exam-takers, since some of them were students from the RLUS program, who were prepared for this exam by our teachers. Not all the program’s students were daring enough to take the Russian language state examinations, but those who did decide to take them brilliantly dealt with all the test sections. We congratulate the students and their teachers on their usual success in studying the Russian language as foreigners!
Remember that all those wishing to receive Russian citizenship can also take the Russian language exam at Language Link and will receive from us a certificate attesting that they passed the state examinations.
MayRUSSIA THROUGH THE EYES OF BRITISH STUDENTS
On May 13, 2011, Language Link held a round table titled Russia Through the Eyes of British Students.
Students from the RLUS program as well as students from Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and other Russian institutions of higher education all took part in the round table meeting.
The British students studying Russian at Language Link worked all year on report projects that they will later have to present at their universities. They studied life in Russia and interviewed Russian people; in other words, they gathered information in order to write research papers in Russian. And at our round table they received an opportunity to discuss the products of their labor. During the debates, which were quite heated and emotional, the following themes were examined: Youth Movements in Russia during the Past Decade, Stilyagi (Hipsters) and Khrushchev’s Thaw, Homophobia and Sexual Minority Issues in Russia today, Issues of Russian Self-Identity in Modern Day Russia, The Role of Women in Modern Russian Society, Gorbachev: Myths and Potentials and Will Putin Become President in 2012.
AprilSummer intensive course of Russian language with Language Link
At the end of May we will be glad to welcome students of Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, to Language Link. It is not the first time that students of this college have come to study Russian with us, and we eagerly await the arrival of the new students.
By way of a traditional excursion programme and Russian language programme, the guys will learn about tentative steps towards development, and about current problems in modern Russia. Lectures planned include:
“St. Petersburg and Moscow: Attraction and Repulsion. The Petersburg age of Russian Culture.”
“Russia: Economics and Politics in the 21st Century.”
“Ecological Problems in Contemporary Russia.”
Students will spend over a month in Moscow, and can also look forward to an exciting trip to St. Petersburg and the Golden Ring towns.
Anybody wishing to take part in this programme can apply and have their questions answered via email: Russian@language.ru or by telephone: +7 (495) 258 08 04, +7 (915) 174 19 71.
RLUS students meet their Russian contemporaries at Language Link
On Sunday, 17th April Language Link organised a meeting between British RLUS students and their Russian contemporaries, from universities such as MSCU, RSUH, PFUR and the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language. The Russians were invited by Maxim Burov (MSCU) and Anton Rybakov (MC SVAO).
Thanks to the spirit and the creative approach of our teachers Zhenya Stremova, Olesya Kharina and Katya Gulidova, as well as our irreplaceable muse Elena Mikhailovna Kallo, those present quickly found mutually interesting topics of discussion, and it was only a matter of minutes before the room was filled with the chatter of fascinating conversations. Balloons, games, songs, dances and even theatrical productions could be seen throughout the meeting.
Our guys didn’t hesitate to join in the fun, and took part with vigour and enthusiasm. This was a fantastic opportunity for the British students to not just make Russian friends, but to learn the Russian youths’ perspectives about their own country, history and culture. Indeed, as part of their university programmes, many of them will have to write dissertations on subjects connected to Russia.
After their meeting at Language Link the entire group headed to a cafe, where they exchanged contact details and arranged a group visit to the Cosmonaut Museum. Those wishing to join them can find the details of this and other planned events on the Facebook group they set up:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_148515651880352&ap=1
The guys are open to socialising and will be happy to meet new, interesting people!
MarchCambridge students study Russian at Language Link
A group of students from Cambridge University arrived on 20th March to study with us. They will be preparing for their oral exam while taking part in our regular spring “Easter Programme”, held for students from Western universities.
The guys will spend a week in Moscow. With a view to success in their exams, they chose to prepare with an intensive language course in Moscow, and to stay with Russian families. We have no doubt that their conscientious approach to their exams will pay off!
FebruaryThe new semester for the RLUS (Russian Language Undergraduate Studies) programme has begun.
Twelve new students from different universities around Britain have arrived in Moscow to study Russian language, literature, culture and history at Language Link. A second group of eleven students is made up of those who decided to extend their stay at the centre after the end of the first semester, and who will be studying according to a more in-depth programme. Those who wish to will have the opportunity to take the TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) at the first level.
JanuaryTeaching Russian as a Foreign Language.
The Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language course at Language Link recently finished. The course was a semester long. The foreign language teachers received preliminary tutoring and observed group lessons.
Pictured: the teachers with their instructor from Lomonosov State University M.S.Rozina.
DecemberSeminar ‘How to use the Total Physical Response Method in teaching Russian’
We welcome teachers of RFL (Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language) and all those wishing to attend the workshop on Thursday 23rd December at 15.30. Janna Lelchuk, professor at the University of Alaska, writer, essayist, and author of ‘Let’s learn to speak Russian’, will be talking about the TPR (Total Physical Response). This method is extremely popular in America for those learning foreign languages.
TRKI -1/TORFL in January
Registration has started for the TRKI -1/TORFL exam, which will take place at Language Link on the 20th and 21st January. We warmly welcome all those wishing to find out their level and potentially obtain a state certificate. For more details, please visit the following website http://www.russian.language.ru/TORFL.htm
NovemberTRKI state exam certificates awarded
Exams have taken place for students at Language Link hoping to receive their level 1 TRKI certificates and certificates in Russian citizenship. Both Natalie Durnford from France and Jukka-Pekka Halonen from Finland passed their level 1 and 2 exams with flying colours, along with Jennifer Trelewicz from the U.S.A and Karina Muradayn from Georgia, both of whom excelled in their Russian citizenship exams. We would like to congratulate everyone on their excellent results.
Pictured: Natalie Durnford with her teacher A.Zarochentseva after passing her exam.
OctoberStudy and pay less!
From 15th October 2010 the price of individual tuition is going up from 925 roubles per one academic hour to 990.
From 1st January 2011 the price of intensive group courses in Moscow is also being raised. If you register now, you can pay for classes up until the end of 2010 without having to pay the new, higher prices! Visit ‘Moscow Prices’ at our website http://www.russian.language.ru/ru/prices_m.htm to find out more!
SeptemberBritish Students at Language Link
A new term has begun at the Russian section of Language Link (Russian Language Undergraduate Studies) for RLUS programme students. Thirty-two students from various British universities such as London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Saint Andrews arrived in Moscow to study with us.
In this academic year we have added a new subject to the usual list of subjects (Grammar, Speaking Practice, Translation, and Literature): Cultural Studies.
We wish all our students and teachers luck in the new term and that hope that they find it interesting.
Photograph: before one of the group’s lessons.
AugustRussian language in hot Moscow
Despite the uncharacteristically hot July weather in Moscow, foreign students continue to arrive, study Russian, and thereby pleasantly surprise us with their perseverance and ability to study. For example, Israel Marques, a PhD student from a Columbian university is in Moscow gathering material for his thesis on the Russian economy and is studying the Russian language. His teacher, Larisa Grushevskaya who is a co-author of the well-known textbook ‘A Living Russian Grammar’ has said that the weather is not affecting Israel’s enthusiasm or his ability to study and points out that he has a keen interest in Soviet history and life in modern Russia.
JuneLanguage Link students successfully complete TORFL (Russian as a Foreign Language) exams
We’d like to congratulate our students on successfully passing their exams with first class certificates. The following students obtained glowing results of between 85 and 95 marks out of 100: Anabelle Smith and John Brodie (students from the RLUS course), Laurence Ghafar (from France) and Andrew Bluher (from the USA).
MayAll Russian conference of RFL (Russian as a Foreign Language) teachers at Language Link
Language Link acted as a host for the Interacademic Conference for Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language. The speech on the Development of Selections of Texts for Students of Various Levels of Language Proficiency was presented by O.E. Chubarova, a lecturer at the Centre of International Education at the Moscow State University and an author of textbooks on Russian as a foreign language. Lecturers from different Moscow universities participated in a discussion on the speech, sharing their opinions on the development of interesting and informative texts for foreign students.
The new academic year courses (start in September) are announced in "Bookings and Dates".
AprilInvitation to those wishing to take TORFL exam
Language Link would like to take this opportunity to invite anyone wishing to take the TORFL (B1 level) State Exam to do so at our Central School located at 21 Souschevskaya Str. on May 27th and 28th. The exam starts at 10am.
For information about exam times and conditions, please contact us on (495) 258-08-04.
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