Autumn is the right time for new Russian experience

I like autumn more than summer.  For me that is a good time for making new experiments,
trying something new, fulfilling your dreams. Autumn is a good time for travelling,
making new friends, learning Russian and other foreign languages.
Welcome to EnjoyRussian language school in September-November and enjoy
new Russian experience with us.

Start dates of the Intensive Russian courses in Autumn 2017

September  4,  October 2, November 6

Russian levels avalable (according to Russian testing system)

beginner (A0), elementary (A1), basic (A2)

Choose the Russian course suitable for your needs and welcome to Petrozavodsk

What to do in Petrozavodsk, Karelia?

to succed in Russian learning and achieve new Russian level for 3 months
with professional Russian teachers

to start speaking Russian fluently. You will have chance to practice Russian
24 hours per day with Russian volunteers, Russian hostfamilies and Russian teachers

to meet new Russian friends among Russian volunteers

to experience the real Russian hospitality and taste delicious Russian food

to enjoy beautiful views, relax watching Onego lake, walk  a lot and become more healthy,
pick up berries and mushrooms

to visit Kizhi island, Valaam monastery, Solovki monastery, Kinerma village, Kivach waterfall.
These sights of interest are worth seeing in the fall.

What to taste?

Autumn is a time of berries and mushrooms. Ask your Russian homestay family to cook a delicious mushroom soup, tasteful popatoes with mushrooms and meat, healthy cranberry kisel’ and Russian pies with lingonberry.  In autumn we cook fish a lot – sudak, whitefish, salmon and pike. You will definitely enjoy it.

Where to go and what to do in Petrozavodsk?

Our students say that Petrozavodsk has the right size. That is not as big as St.Peterburg
and Moscow and not as small to get bored. There are a lot of things to do here.

You may enjoy listening to music in Philarmonia and Conservatory, or watching ballet
in Music theater or performances in Drama theater. I recommend a new performance
“Nastasya Philipovna” based on the novel “Idiot” by Dostoevskiy.

You may do a lot of sport in Petrozavodsk – biking, running, swimming,
playing football, skating, joga and others.

You may take part in various workshops, lectures, exhibitions etc.
I recommend a cooking master-class and learn to cook “kalitki” – Karelian pies with potatoes,
carrots and millet.

Watch amazing pictures of Karelian Autumn https://enjoyrussian.com/russian-autumn/

Prepositions В and НА keep confusing people, who study the Russian language. If you are not sure when to use which one, this post is for you.

The easiest way to decide which preposition to use is to think weather the object you’re talking about is inside of something or on the top of it. If it is inside (inside a bag, a room, a city or a country and etc.) – use “В”. If it’s on top – use “НА”. In any other types of context better use “НА”, because it has a wider range of meanings.

Do not translate literally from English, because in English there are three prepositions (in, on and at) that in different combinations might be translated both as В and НА. For example, English “in the street” is “на улице” in Russian, “on a bus” – “в автобусе” and etc. So, English “in” is not always “В” in Russian and “on” is not always “НА”.

Save the chart, so not to ever forget when to use the Russian language В and НА!

Leave your questions and comments!

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In modern foreign language teaching process cards are MUST USE! Why?

1. You can see words clearly written on a piece of paper and easier focus on the word structure and spelling
2. Cards are small and convenient to take with you wherever you go (I’ve had some students who took cards with them everywhere and learned the new words in a bus on their way to the school)
3. You can analyze and understand the grammar easier with the cards, organizing them into groups depending on their gender, number, case and etc.
4. You can make cards with different endings and see how the words change by putting the endings on top, just the same way as our A1 students did today.

We worked on the Prepositional case and these are the steps we followed:

1. The students received a set of cards, including masculine nouns (проект, фильм, актёр, друг), pronouns (мой, твой, этот, тот) and adjectives (хороший, интересный, талантливый,…). They had to make phrases in which there had to be one noun, one pronoun and two adjectives, for example: Этот хороший талантливый актёр. After that we discussed possible endings of masculine nouns and adjectives in Nominative case.
2. We’ve done exactly the same thing with neuter and feminine nouns, pronouns and adjectives.
3. Then the students received 12 verbs or verb+noun combinations (думать, рассказывать, забыть, вспоминать, прочитать статью) and prepositions “о/об”. They had to match the verbs and phrases they’ve done before, like: ДУМАТЬ ОБ ЭТОТ ХОРОШИЙ ТАЛАНТЛИВЫЙ АКТЁР. But they asked me immediately: “Shouldn’t we change the endings of the pronouns, adjectives and nouns?”. Of course!
4. And this is what we’ve done at the end! The students got the cards with nouns’, pronouns’ and adjectives’ endings in Prepositional case: -е / -и (for nouns), -ом /ем(-ём) (for masculine and neuter pronouns and adjectives), -ой / -ей (for feminine pronouns and adjectives). They had to put the endings cards on the words to change them from Nominative to Prepositional case. In the photo on top is what we’ve got at the end.

The task was hard and time consuming, but this is a great way to visualize the grammar, to literally create it, see how it works. Would YOU like to try?

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Let us introduce you to the most active volunteer of Russian Language School of the previous week! Her name is Lyudmila Girs! She is a student of Petrozavodsk State University, geography teacher.

- See more at: http://enjoyrussian.com/active-vol/#sthash.41Oplfsx.dpuf

Students share their opinions about the program! 

Laura from UK: 
"Content of the course was perfect for me - revision of some things I already knew, as well as new topics/grammatical aspects. We had a great teacher, very enthusiastic and helpful! Volunteers were very kind, some of them gave up lots of their time to help. Overall the program is very well organized, even though I would have preferred to pay before I came. It was a fantastic course I would definitely recommend: a good variety of resourses made classes interesting, host families are a great idea as it forces us to speak Russian on a daily basis. I liked the excursions: especially Kizhi and horse riding (and the price is good!). Definitely perfect environment to learn Russian in and make good progress, even for 2 weeks"

Would you like to make progress in Russian? 
Apply for June program http://www.enjoyrussian.com/3719/

Let's see! ;-) Learn Russian and love Russia! 
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6 days left to get a scholarship for Russian language course in Petrozavodsk!!! Hurry up! Just tell us how Russian you are! 

Read more http://enjoyrussian.com/3686_programs/16257/19515/ 

Students in our school not only learn Russian in the classes but practice it with locals! 

Kassia has been interviewed by Russian teens! Let's see it! 

Join us and speak Russian like Kassia does http://enjoyrussian.com/3686_programs/3689_autumn_russian_courses/

Russian speaking clubs in our school!

Great possibility to watch Russian movies, read Russian books and discuss different questions in the Russian langauge with our creative teachers and other Russians!

Learn Russian and have fun http://enjoyrussian.com/3686_programs/19365/

Have you ever read Russian language books? What is your favourite? ☺

Learn Russian and read books http://enjoyrussian.com/3686_programs/3689_autumn_russian_courses/

Let's get acquainted with our Russian language teacher Olga Yartseva! She is very patient teacher! Today she is giving you a piece of advice on one of the best ways of studying Russian.

"Spend at least 5 minutes a day thinking in Russian language. You can describe your own or somebody's actions at the moment as well as various situations you get into. You can also do it loudly!"

Don't be afraid and learn Russian!

Join us in Summer 2016 http://enjoyrussian.com/3686_programs/3687_summer_russian_courses/

Great chance to join our full-immersion programs in May! Contact us via e-mail to get the info about discounts.

Beginners level (2 weeks): May 2-13
Price: 450EUR (including tuition fee + homestay with breakfast)
Deadline: April 3

Elementary level (2 weeks): May 2-13
Price: 450EUR (including tuition fee + homestay with breakfast)
Deadline: April 3

1 Certificate level (4 weeks): May 2-27
Price: 900EUR (including tuition fee + homestay with breakfast)
Deadline: April 3

2 Certificate level (4 weeks): May 2-27
Price: 900EUR (including tuition fee + homestay with breakfast)
Deadline: April 3

APPLY: http://www.enjoyrussian.com/3719/

"We often meet with the students who study or work here in the school. We watched the opera and the ballet, I liked both. Also we watched a Russian film at the cinema and visited many cafes and also 2 shopping centers" Elena

APPLY: http://www.enjoyrussian.com/3719/

Would you like to know how Russians say goodbye to winter and welcome spring? And how many Russian pancakes you can eat for a week? And what is a winter scarecrow?

You should visit Russia on Maslenitsa! It is one of... 

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VOLUNTEER POSITIONS IN SUMMER 2016

If you want to get new intercultural experience and improve or learn Russian language for free – WELCOME to the International English language summer camp “ENGLISH NON-STOP” in Petrozavodsk (Karelia, Russia).

Read more http://enjoyrussian.com/3686_programs/18785/