Individual Courses

• Individual coaching in Russian

Students with an intermediate or advanced level of Russian often prefer to study in small groups (up to four students) or to take individual coaching. In this case the curriculum is custom-tailored in accordance with the student's language level to meet his/her needs.

Possible topics of individual coaching courses

Linguistic topics:

– Russian Pronunciation;

– Russian Intonation Course;

– Verbal Aspect in Russian: Semantic and Grammatical Aspects;

– Word Order in Russian;

– Verbs of Motion System;

– Modal Particles and Discourse Markers in the Russian Language;

– Ways to Express the Semantic Subject in a Sentence;

– Phraseologized Syntactic Structures;

– Russian Syntax Challenges: Active and Passive Participle Clauses; Complex Sentence Syntax;

– Figurative Meaning of Tense and Mood Forms;

– Colloquial Russian Syntax;

– Issues of English-Russian Translation;

– Issues of Korean-Russian Translation;

– Issues of Chinese-Russian Translation;

– Genres of the Written Speech;

Conversational topics:

– Mass-Media in Russia;

– Indigenous Peoples of Siberia;

–Decembrists in Siberia;

– Baikal: Geography, Flora and Fauna;

– Russian Culture: Theatre and Cinema;

– Russian Popular Culture;

– Tales and Legends of Old Baikal;

– Tourism and Environmental Issues of Baikal;

–Work of Valentin Rasputin and Aleksandr Vampilov;

–Folktale Plot in the Modern Russian Culture;

– Biotechnologies in the Modern World;

– Gender in Language and the Modern Society;

–Environmental issues in public discussion in Russia.