Intensive Summer Language School 2019

This summer we offer an intensive 8-week summer program for students with the Intermediate and Advanced levels of the Russian language proficiency from June 3 through July 26 . The full 8-week program will include 160 academic hours of Russian (20 hours per week) , with the classes Monday through Thursday (10 a.m. – 3:50 p.m.) and different excursions around Moscow on the weekends (entrance fees, tickets to museums, etc. are not included in the program fee).

The minimal participation time is four weeks.The cost of the program depends on its duration.

For individual students the cost of the 8-week program (20 hours per week) is 3200 US dollars . It includes tuition, accommodation in a dormitory, tutors' help (10 hours per week), and visa support.

The summer school program offers various courses depending on the level of the Russian language proficiency.

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);

Conversation practice (develops speaking skills in different situations of communication);

Reading in Russian (involves work with both authentic and adapted contemporary texts in Russian);

Russian phonetics and intonation (further develops skills of natural Russian pronunciation).

At the advanced level:

Practical course of 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).

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Application form in PDF

Contacts: 
Olga Eremina 
oeremina@hse.ru