Russian Language Intensive Course (24 ECTS)

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This is a 15-week course, incl. 8 lessons (one lesson lasts two academic hours, that is 90 minutes) in each week (7 weeks study + one week break + 7 weeks study) of which 4 lessons are of conversational practice, other hours are distributed between reading, listening and grammar.
The course starts on September 1, 2025 and ends on December 12, 2025; following with the exam next week.

The weekly schedule of the course is as follows (as an example of this semester's schedule):
Monday: Conversation Practice + one week Structures and Translation/ the next week Listening to Russian Culture
Tuesday: Conversation Practice + Conversation Practice
Wednesday: Reading Russian Culture + Listening to Russian Culture
Thursday: Conversation Practice + Structures and Translation
Reading, Listening and Structure classes are also taught according to the communicative approach, topics of these classes are connected with the ones of Conversational Practice.
Lessons occur at 10:15-11:45 and 12:15-13:45.

View the course syllabus here.

The conversation club takes place once a week at 17:00, and the day of the week is agreed upon with the students at the beginning of the semester.

The student is expected to have a level of proficiency in Russian “A2”.
The lectures are expert teachers, whose native language is Russian.

If the student is participating in the course under an inter-university cooperation agreement, the following information must be sent by email to exchange@tlu.ee by 15 May 2025 for course registration: full name, date of birth, email address, semester of exchange, and field and level of studies. After that, each student will be required to complete an enrolment form on the SoleMove platform (details can be found here).

If you are participating in the course as a continuing education student, please send an email to slavic@tlu.ee, and we will provide you with the necessary registration information.

The cost of this course is 2900 euros per person. The price of the course is negotiable, if there is an agreement on cooperation between the sending university and Tallinn University, and if there will be a quorum of students to participate.

We are also offering extra free options to get more practice in Russian language:

the Russian Speaking Club once a week;
individual tutorship by Russian speaking students.

Additionally and for an extra fee we are welcoming international students to participate in:

various courses in cultural and social studies both in English and in Russian together with local students;
courses of other East and West European languages.

For more information, please send an email to slavic@tlu.ee