Language School at a Glance, Here Are the Key Factors Why You Should Choose Derzhavin Institute If You Are Сontent Planning to Study Russian in Russia
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WHERE LANGUAGE LIVES LANGUAGE SCHOOL AT A GLANCE, HERE ARE THE KEY FACTORS WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE DERZHAVIN INSTITUTE IF YOU ARE СONTENT PLANNING TO STUDY RUSSIAN IN RUSSIA: WHERE IS RUSSIAN SPOKEN? 3 1 Located in the most beautiful Russian city — St Petersburg IS RUSSIAN DIFFICULT? 4 Quality of services provided accredited WHY DO PEOPLE STUDY RUSSIAN? 5 2 by European organization EAQUALS WHAT IS DERZHAVIN INSTITUTE? 6 Small groups with a maximum of 10 students per class ACCREDITATIONS 7 3 LOCATION 8 4 Professional academic staff fabioderzhavin_institute OUR CLIENTS AND THEIR FEEDBACK 9 TEACHING STANDARDS 10 5 In-house published coursebooks COURSEBOOKS 15 LEVELS 16 6 Smart Immersion Programmmes WHAT ARE SMART IMMERSION 17 PROGRAMMES AND HOW DO THEY WORK? see pp 17 7 Official TRKI testing center 10000 likes WHAT COURSE TYPE SHOULD I CHOOSE? 18 WHAT ACCOMMODATION SHOULD I 20 8 Seasonal discounts and special offers for university students CHOOSE? WHAT IS THERE TO DO AFTER THE 22 A wide variety of interesting LESSONS? 9 social activities and excursions START LEARNING RUSSIAN NOW 23 BONUS A SHORT QUIZ ABOUT 24 ST PETERSBURG Using the promo code BR20, you can get a 7% discount on the USEFUL INFORMATION 26 Standard group course see pp 22 with bookings from CONTACTS 27 1 to 8 weeks. 2 3 WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT... RUSSIAN IS THE NUMBER ONE MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN EUROPE? Although it’s difficult to compete with the English language, Russian could definitely be called a wide-spread language. Just imagine — knowing Russian, you will be able to travel in 16 (!!!) different countries without a language barrier. With that in mind, you won’t be surprised if we now tell you that over 20% of Europeans speak Russian. The second most commonly spoken language in Europe is German, at 12%. Country where Russian is an official language Country with at least 500k native speakers of NUMBER OF COUNTRIES IN WHICH DIFFERENT LANGUAGES Russian, or with significant percapita ARE SPOKEN Country with at least 8k native Russian speakers 110 English EASY 60 Arabic Albania, Armenia, for students from 51 French Azerbaijan, Bosnia, 33 Chinese Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, 31 Spanish MEDIUM Latvia, Lithuania, 29 Persian Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Romania, 18 German Germany, Greece, Serbia, Slovakia, DID YOU KNOW 16 RUSSIAN Holland, Finland, Slovenia Iceland, Italy, Norway, 13 Malay THAT... Portugal, Spain, Sweden, 12 Portuguese Switzerland, English- 11 Italian speaking countries, French-speaking 8 Turkish YOU CAN ACHIEVE A CONSIDERABLE LEVEL OF FLUENCY IN countries RUSSIAN AFTER JUST OVER 800 HOURS? QUITE Russian is usually considered to be one of the most difficult languages in the CHALLENGING world. One of the most popular misconceptions is that it takes ages just to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. But would you believe that we spend only the first China, Indonesia, 30 minutes of class learning the alphabet and right on the first day students Japan, Korea, Malasya, start speaking and reading (not fluently of course — that would require another Thailand, Turkey, month or two)? Vietnam 4 5 Carlo is our most loyal student. Would you believe that he has been coming to WHY DO OUR STUDENTS us every year for the last 11 years!!! In the fabiocarlo beginning of July, we all expect a short e-mail STUDY RUSSIAN? starting with «Привет, друзья! Я снова буду в Петербурге …» (Hello, my friends. I will be in St Petersburg again...). And we are always 30% Love of Russian culture and literature delighted when Carlo comes to our school at the end of July bringing a box of the tastiest 30% To become translators and interpreters Italian chocolates Gianduiotti. 15% For business reasons It is such a pleasure and such an honor for 10% To increase their opportunities for a better job us to be chosen as a vacation destination 5% To communicate with Russian relatives 10 years in a row! 5% To challenge themselves 5% Just for fun 10000 likes WATCH OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR Fabio first came to our school in MORE FEEDBACK fabio March 2016 with a very basic knowledge FROM OUR of the Russian language. He is a video STUDENTS operator and video editor in Italy and was hoping to get a position in a TV crew broadcasting the Confederation Cup 2017 and World Cup 2018. To realize his dream Mayuko and work for these events in Russia, he needed quite a good level of Russian. He spent several months with us taking our Work and Study programme. Mayuko was one of the most charming All our 2016-2017 videos were made by students whom we’ve ever had. She was Fabio. Check out our youtube channel to chosen to be Miss Derzhavin in 2016 for her see his work. charming smile, contagious laughter and absolutely amazing voice. This small Japanese lady is an opera singer! Mayuko is in love with Russian culture and Russian figure skating. We hope she had a chance to say a few words 10000 likes in Russian to our world famous figure skater Evgenij Plushenko, when she took her picture with him. 10000 likes 6 7 WHAT IS DERZHAVIN INSTITUTE? KEY FACTS ABOUT Take this short quiz to learn a couple of new things not simply about our school, DERZHAVIN INSTITUTE but also about the history of Russian and St Petersburg! TOP NATIONALITIES AGES 1 WHAT DOES THE WORD “DERZHAVIN” MEAN? A Derzhavin is the surname of the school founder 30% Italy 3% <18 Mr Alexander Mokhov В Derzhavin is a word in Russian that is impossible to pronounce 15% Germany 30% 18 - 25 С Derzhavin is a famous Russian poet 10% France 20% 26 – 35 10% United States 20% 35 - 45 8% Japan 17% 46 - 60 2 WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF THE SCHOOL? 8% United Kingdom 10% 60+ A Mr Gavrila Derzhavin 5% Switzerland В Mr Alexander Mokhov 5% Finland 5% Brazil 3 WHY IS THE SCHOOL CALLED “DERZHAVIN INSTITUTE”? December March June till September A Our founder is a big fan of 18th century poetry till February till April August till November В The school was founded and located in the former residence of Gavrila Derzhavin Average number of students 30 50-60 100 - 130 40-50 С The name “Pushkin Institute” has already been taken so we took the name of in the school the second most important poet Average class size 3-4 6-8 8-10 5-6 Average age of students in 35-40 25-35 18-30 25-35 ? the school The history of the school (though not a very long one) dates back to 2003 when the Museum of Derzhavin was opened in Gavrila Derzhavin's former residence on Fontanka River 118. The Russian language school was a part of the cultural and Our first student Kadzue educational center and it’s a great honor for us to be connected to an event of such historical significance. ? Mr Gavrila Derzhavin In 2003, Mr Alexander Mokhov was inspired to organize the Russian language school with two friends of his — Ms Natalia Pavlova and Ms Alevtina Iagodova. Young, energetic and enthusiastic, they believed in this new enterprise so much that they STATISTICS managed to survive through the hardest first year when we only had ONE student!!!! ? 2003 year of foundation If you think it’s the founder of the school who was so proud of himself that he named 5000+ students taught a school after himself, you are a bit mistaken. And yes, “Derzhavin” is a proper name, 600+ students a year not simply an unpronounceable word. max. 130 students in the school at any one time So the correct answer is C. The name of the school comes from the name of the 22 classrooms person — Gavrila Derzhavin. Maybe you’ve heard about Catherine the Great or Alexander Pushkin...? Well, Gavrila Derzhavin also lived those times. He was a 20 part-time teachers statesman of a high rank at the reign of Catherine the Great. And it was Gavrila 12 full-time teachers Derzhavin who discovered the talent of Alexander Pushkin. 2 buildings 8 9 GENERAL STUDY CENTRE WHAT IS IMPORTANT fabioderzhavin_institute ADDRESS: WHEN YOU CHOOSE A Troitskij pr. 6 LANGUAGE SCHOOL? USED FOR: 90% • Standard course and other group classes Evening classes We are officially recognized by the Russian of our students • Administration Association of Teachers for Russian Language and said that the • Literature (ROPRYAL), which aims to disseminate WORKING HOURS: the Russian language abroad through seminars quality of Monday – Thursday 09:00 – 21:45 and conferences organized in different European services Friday 09:00 – 18:00 universities. provided is most important for Our quality of teaching and Russian language FEATURES: them programmes are also accredited by the Ministry of 17 comfortable fully equipped Education of the Russian Federation. • classrooms 10000 likes In 2009, we received accreditation from the German organization • A spacious common area with free tea Bildungsurlaub. and coffee In 2014, we received accreditation from EAQUALS. • A self-study room with a library for students and PCs for students’ use • Building-wide free wifi derzhavin_institute SUMMER CENTRE LOCATION 70% ADDRESS: • historic heart of of students Izmailovskiy prospect 7 St Petersburg choose us because 1 TROITSKIJPROSPEKT USED FOR: • beautiful 19th century they liked the SADOVAYA ULITSA buildings location of • Individual full-time courses May — August • both buildings are the school WORKING HOURS: located a 10 minute walk 2 Monday – Friday 09:00 – 15:30 away from the metro station Technologicheskij Institute IZMAILOVSKIY PROSPEKT FEATURES: just 2 metro stops from the very centre • 10 spacious, modern decorated SADOVAYA ULITSA of the city and its main street — Nevsky FONTANKA EMB • classrooms Prospect 10000 likes A common area with free tea and coffee • 20 minutes walking from Mariinskij • Theatre • Free internet access MOSKOVSKIY PROSPEKT M M SENNAYA TEKHNOLOGICHESKIY PLOSCHAD’ 10 INSTITUTE 11 WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY OUR CLIENTS 99% Derzhavin Institute hosts summer programme for: Carlo Visentin of students read the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY I attended a two-week course this August and I must say that feedback two-month summer courses in St.