Learning Russian, watch more movies in Russian!

Russian language school “Enjoy Russian” teachers are always ready to give you a piece of advice on ways of studying Russian. Olga Khanaeva has been working in our school for several years already. She is an inspired tutor who considers teaching as creative process. Here is what she says about alternative ways of language practice.

My advice  to the students is to watch more movies in Russian! I recommend it first-hand, as I am not only a teacher, I do learn foreign languages as well.

If you have several favorite movies that you can watch time after time, don’t waste your time and watch it in the language you learn. Even better – with subtitles. Thus you would be able to shoot two hears (as we say in Russia). You will be able not only to hear the pronunciation of the word, but its spelling as well. It would be just great, if you pause sometimes to speak new phrases aloud and to write them down.

It is not compulsory to watch Russian movies. Any picture translated in Russian would be suitable. Of course if you watch a movie shot in Russia, you will learn more about Russian culture and life style. But the main idea is to watch and hear to the movies you really enjoy.

By Olga Khanaeva, Enjoy Russian School teacher.

If you are not sure what to start with – here you would find a list of the most popular movies in Russia.