MGU Russian program

[Marci Shore]

Dear Matt,

Many thanks!

Marci

On 4/4/06, Matthew Herrington <herrington.matthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Marci Shore
> > 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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Marci Shore
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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