 The energetic team of professors
and instructors at the Slavic Department
is ready to guide you through your exploration
of language and culture through dynamic language
and culture classes which prepare you for
your next trip to Russia as well as for your
scholarly research.
Many people think that learning the Russian
alphabet takes a long time. But we will know it in just two weeks.
The language learning
workshop, organized at the beginning
of each academic year, presents
strategies and tips to make your language
learning experience easier and more rewarding.
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The conversation hour gives you the occasion
to get together with other people interested
in Russian language and culture and to
meet with graduate students and professors from the Slavic Department
for informal conversation in Russian every
week at Expresso Royale on Goodwin Ave.
All levels are welcome and, of course,
no grades!
During the Fall '06 semester the conversation hour meets from 4.00-5.00 every Thursday.
For more information contact Professor Valeria Sobol. |
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Our classes are also oriented towards students interested in developing their bussiness vocabulary. There is a wide variety of jobs out there that require knowledge of Russian. Why not be ready for one of them! If you want to see some example consult the Russian job folder in 3080 FLB.
Check out the following resources to find out more about Russia:
Although Russia is no longer the enemy of the Cold War, the demand for Russian speakers is great. Russian is the native language of some 150 million citizens of the Russian Federal Republic. It is one of the five official languages of the UN, and ranks with English, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, and Spanish as a strategic language. What is more, Russian remains the unofficial lingua franca of the former Soviet republics, an indispensable communications tool across all of the Caucasus and Central Asia .
The Slavic Department at UIUC also
offers instruction in Czech,
Polish,
Serbo-Croatian,
and Ukrainian
languages and a quite a number of courses
in culture and literature.
Learning these languages enables you to see
the world through different eyes and opens
up innumerable opportunities for you. And
once you learn one Slavic language, the second
one comes easier -- they are all closely related.
Go to Fall
'08 classes. |
