Intensive Summer Language School
We are offering an intensive five-week summer program at HSE campus (Moscow) with the following conditions:
Duration
5 weeks
July – beginning of August
Levels
Intermediate (B1/B1+) and Advanced (B2/B2+)
Classes
Monday through Thursday from 10 am through 4 pm
Format
In-class meetings at the address Staraya Basmannaya, 21/4
Offering different conditions (level, duration, timelines, intensity) is possible upon requests by partner organisations.
Programme (tentative)
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At the intermediate level
Practical course of the Russian language
A systematic course in all the aspects of Russian: speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar.
Reading in Russian
Involves work with both authentic and adapted contemporary texts in Russian.
Conversation practice
Develops speaking skills in different situations of communication.
Russian phonetics and intonation
Further develops skills of natural Russian pronunciation.
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At the advanced level
Practical course of the Russian
A review of difficulties of the Russian grammar; further develops speaking, listening, reading and writing skills at the advanced level.
Russian through Politics
An overview of contemporary texts and media sources devoted to the most important social and political situations, phenomena and personalities in Russia. The combination of linguistic and political aspects allows students to obtain not only linguistic, but also political and legal knowledge.
Russian in Business Media
Is based on working with texts, audio and video materials of the modern Russian business media in such areas as ‘person’, ‘society’, ‘economics’, ‘world’, etc.
Russian through the modern films
Includes working with the modern Russian films and TV shows in order to both get familiar with the Russian lifestyle, and also to expand the vocabulary, improve grammar, and tune the language intuition in different registers / communication styles of the Russian language.