Special courses

Tatiana was a friendly and welcoming teacher so ideal in this setting where we had not met before.

The highlight for me was the survival skills style games Maria led during the lesson…

I really enjoyed the Conversation Club on Sunday. The format with the materials sent in advance is very useful and it is great to have interesting content.

She was very helpful and encouraging, I’d definitely recommend it to others. I particularly liked examining the historical letters and documents.

I really enjoyed the handwriting course . It was well thought out and worked perfectly using Zoom and What’s App . I especially liked seeing and trying to decipher examples of Russian handwriting.

absolutely excellent, i am writing away pretty confidently now

I liked the opportunity for role-playing (reading the script) as well as watching and discussing the film. The language level seemed right for me.

I thought the course was great, and I hope more of them can be organised!

Also, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Conversation Club on Sunday – although it was challenging, it felt very supportive and fun and Larissa was really encouraging and lovely.

I really enjoy the Sunday Conversation Clubs. The atmosphere is relaxed and unpressured. The breakout rooms work like a charm.

All the short courses that I have recently taken part in have been outstanding. I especially enjoyed Phonetics with Irina and also today’s conversation class.

I’ve had good fun, thank you! Especially the fact that it was gamified made it light and enjoyable. Maria is great and a great fit for these classes.

The session with Maria was really good – a nice pace, mixture of activities and at the right level for our expertise. I would definitely love to join another session with Maria.

I really enjoyed the phonetics course and learned a lot. According to native speakers I know, my pronunciation improved significantly.

The conversation club is really excellent. Actually I was quite scared the first time, as just talking Russian is a bit daunting. But it is a really friendly environment.

it was very useful and teacher provided individual feedback which was much appreciated

I really enjoyed the film that I studied with Tatiana …Tatiana explained the vocabulary/dialogue in the film really well. The exercises that were prepared to accompany the film were useful, enjoyable and tested comprehension well.

I found the session challenging. But I enjoyed the novel (to me) approach of using the short film as a basis for grammatical study.

I enjoy the Conversation Club and it provides me with a very useful opportunity to practice my Russian on topics I may be unfamiliar with.

The course has stimulated me to work on this more. The audio preparations, and the personal feedback from Maria were really constructive and valuable I found.

Maria’s teaching style is clear, enthusiastic, and very encouraging, and of course fun!

it was really helpful to expand my vocabulary in a different and slightly more complex direction, without grammar being the main driving force of the lesson.

The course was very interesting and lively, Victoria obviously knows her subject well. I enjoyed it very much.

It was brilliant! I really enjoyed both sessions…. I feel I learned a lot.

The course was brilliant. It was exactly at the right level and Maria was super encouraging

I really enjoyed working with other students at a similar level – and got a sense that we were working together and had common goals and objectives.

The short film course I did with Tatiana was excellent. The film was entertaining and all the activities we did around it were useful.

I really enjoyed this session. Tatiana was really well prepared with loads of interesting exercises. I found it quite hard work, which is not a criticism!

I very much enjoyed the course, Maria is an excellent teacher, and provides excellent feedback. I think that the course is especially useful as Russian pronunciation is so dependent on stress, consonant quality etc.

I have enjoyed immensely!! Maria is brilliant, very funny and really made learning fun!! There was no pressure and it was done at a very good pace for you to learn. I am glad I took part!!

I thoroughly enjoyed ‘Russian through film’. It was extremely well organised and I feel I got a great deal from it.

it was wonderful for me to experience such a marvellous example of Russian/Soviet film-making, the way it conveyed subtle and sensitive emotions and the play of human relationships in such a short space of time

In the Conversation Club, I never feel stupid when I can’t find the right way to express myself, which is 100% my biggest worry when I try to speak Russian.