Intensive Summer Language School

We are offering an intensive five-week summer program at HSE campus (Moscow) with the following conditions:

Levels: Intermediate (B1 / B1+) and Advanced (B2 / B2+)

Duration: 5 weeks, July - begining of August

Classes: Monday through Thursday from 10 am through 4 pm

Format: in-class meetings at the address Staraya Basmannaya, 21/4

PROGRAM ( tentative )

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).


Offering different conditions (level, duration, timelines, intensity) is possible upon requests by partner organizations