Eurolingua - Russian in St Petersburg

  Russia

• St. Petersburg: 
St. Petersburg
• Moscow: 
Moscow (Moskva)
• All Other Areas: 
Chelyabinsk,  Irkutsk

Term: Throughout the year 
Dates: All Year

Description: Welcome to our St Petersburg centre - an outstanding international school located in the heart of St. Petersburg, the "Cultural Capital of Russia", and staffed by one of the most qualified and experienced teams of Russian as a foreign language instructors.

The Institute
Our teachers and administrational staff have extensive experience in some of the most successful language schools in Russia. Our methods combine western standards of management and service with a lively international atmosphere and traditional Russian hospitality. Our school is founded on high academic standards, with quality programs and a modern communicative approach to learning.

The Programmes
We provide courses at all levels. We have group courses with a maximum of 8 students per class and individual or two-to-one lessons. Our school is quite flexible in its programmes and coursework, and we are always ready to work out courses specially tailored to suit your particular needs and interests. Whether it is business, history, politics, culture, mass media or whatever, we either already have or can design a course for you. We are an experienced team and have tested accredited programs for all levels with an excellent system of diagnostics and evaluation to accurately place students at a level consistent with their prior studies.

Highlights: Our instructors have taught students from The United Nations, The International Committee of the Red Cross, The BBC, Der Spiegel, Credit Suisse, foreign embassies and consulates in Russia, and universities in Geneva, Paris, London, Zurich, Oxford, and elsewhere. All have given us high marks. Some of our teachers teach both Russian as a foreign language and English, German or French to Russians, which gives them a more profound understanding of people's difficulties with foreign languages. We always encourage our teachers to learn new languages, because we believe that having this experience as students is a valuable source for further improvement of their professional skills. Teachers use the opportunity to learn a second or third foreign language and to be each other's students. Teachers' training sessions take place on a regular basis, so stuff members can tell about their findings, share problems and together look for solutions, discuss and evaluate new teaching materials.

Our teaching methodology stresses the importance of communication and combines learning common expressions used in everyday situations with thorough and systematic work on grammar. This is of vital importance for learning a language like Russian, with a developed system of grammatical forms. We work on all aspects of the language: speaking, grammar, reading, writing and listening comprehension. Conversational topics are given with appropriate grammar structures, while the grammar part of the course proceeds gradually from simple "basic concepts" to more complex issues. One of our teachers authored a book on role-play in teaching of Russian as a foreign language published in Russia and Finland. Our coursebook for beginners "Poekhali!" (Let's Go!), has been adopted by other language institutions in many countries. We are proud to note that this book was written and produced by our school's founder, Stanislav Chernyshov.

Minimum Education: High School

Cost in US$: please refer to the Eurolingua web site

Credit Available: yes

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Participants Travel to Russia Independently Or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Exit DebriefingAbroad
• Job and Internship Network

Eurolingua Institute's Mission Statement: The Eurolingua Institute provides group and individual customized tuition in modern languages, paid work experience programmes, internships, and unique immersion programmes living in the teacher's own home. The Eurolingua Institute currently teaches 11 languages at over 70 schools in 40 countries and at over 150 homestay locations worldwide.

Year Founded: 1993