MGU Russian program

[Matthew Herrington]

Dear Marci,

I've studied at MGU for the past two summers, once in a program organized by
Florida State University (using MGU language instructors) and once on my own
on a FLAS Fellowship.  The first year I was in group instruction with
American students and the second year in private instruction.

I highly suggest against group instruction at MGU and highly suggest
individual instruction.  In my experience it's better to pay extra for
individual instruction and simply take fewer hours, if money is a factor.
The instructors are flexible and accomodating.  I spent all of last summer
reading nothing but Pushkin and my teacher had a blast...literature was a
nice change for her.  Also, with individual instruction your schedule is
more flexible which will allow you to get out early every day to make it to
the archive.

One word of warning though: Go through the MGU philological faculty itself
and not another company that arranges lessons at or around MGU...there are a
lot of imposters (and they can even arrange housing in MGU dormitories) and,
from what I know of them, students have been disappointed.  Ziegler may be
one of them. I don't know the website you need off the top of my head but
the name of the director of the Russian for foreigners program at MGU is
Georgii Moskvin.

Best,
Matt


On 4/4/06, Marci Shore <mshore at indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> I'm going to be in Moscow for research during the month of July, and am
> looking for an advanced Russian language course that month that would
> ideally provide housing and offer classes late afternoon/evening to
> accomodate archival work.
>
> I found this MGU program on the internet that looks promising.  Does anyo
> ne
> know anything about it?
>
>
> ZIEGLER & Partner GmbH
> Moscow State University
> Vorob'evy gory
> Humanitarian Korpus Nr 1, k.175
> 119899 Moscow
> Tel/Fax +7 495 939 09 80
> http://www.studyrussian.com/MGU/intro/intro_eng.html
>
> Many thanks!
>
>
> Marci Shore
>
> --
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> Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies
> Department of History
> Indiana University
> Ballantine Hall 742
> 1020 E. Kirkwood
> Bloomington, IN  47405-7103
> tel. 812-855-8036
> fax 812-855-3378
> mshore at indiana.edu
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