TOMSK, Aug
6 – RIA Tomsk. Foreign students group came to Tomsk Polytechnic University to
learn Russian and culture in summer school "Siberian Vacation", is
reported on website of the university. Guests from Finland, Italy, Germany,
France, South Korea, Belgium and Saudi Arabia have express course – they learn
language and immerse in mentality of Russia within three weeks.
The summer
school works in TPU annually, it is provided for foreign citizens aged from 18
years which are interested in the Russian language and culture, plan to deepen
the knowledge or to start studying from scratch.
Saudi
Arabia
Nine
students from the different countries arrived to the university - it is already
the second arrival at the school during the summer. Two listeners from the
first arrival learned language in group for beginners and decided to remain in
the second wave to set result and to continue training in group with level
higher.
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Foreign students came to learn the Russian language in TPU
So, Elias J
arrived from Saudi Arabia. He graduated an architectural university there,
worked in the specialty, but then decided to change cardinally the activity –
now he is interested in the Nuclear Technologies direction.
"I
want to learn Russian, complete a program in nuclear engineering and return to
work in my home country. Highly qualified specialists in the field of nuclear
technologies are needed in Saudi Arabia. I chose between the USA and Russia,
and according to reviews understood that TPU is the the best option", –
the press service of the university quotes his words.
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South Korea
and France
Nam Jungmin
is from South Korea, he remained to learn Russian with group of the second
arrival in TPU too. By education he is a bachelor of economy, now his plans are
to learn Russian at the summer school, then at the Preparatory Department of
TPU, and later to enter the MA course.
Becques
Raphael Joseph Christophe arrived in TPU from France. He studies the
international relations in Paris. The educational program of his direction
includes discipline "Russian language", – and Raphael speaks it,
indeed, pretty well. But, according to him, it is possible to learn Russian at
the highest level only in Russia.
"In
the future I would like to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France,
to govern the relations with Russia. I have some inexplicable love to your
country, I like to read the Russian classics in original language – Pushkin,
Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy's books. Unfortunately, I do not know the works of the
Russian contemporaries yet, but, I think, I will correct it in Tomsk", –
Raphael says.
Explaination
in simple terms
Listeners
of the course are taught the Russian langiage as foreign by means of an
effective technique – without application of intermediate language. Thus,
students completely immersed in the language environment and begin to
understand Russian and to speak in it quicker.
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Foreign students came to learn the Russian language in TPU
"We
use descriptions, synonyms, antonyms, illustrations, gestures for training.
Occasionally after all it is necessary to use English for explanation of these
or those concepts: it is difficult to students to understand objects which in
their language do not exist, for example, what is ryazhenka, kefir, kefir,
kholodets, cedar nuts", – the senior teacher of the Russian Language
Department of TPU Olga Drozdova tells.
As the
press service adds, also these days in TPU training at summer school for the
Chinese students according to the 2 2 program from the Shenyang Ligong
University (SLU) and Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences (CUAS) is
provided.
Students of
SLU learn Russian language, physics and engineering graphics, students of CUAS
– only Russian. Upon termination of the summer school students will take the
test on Russian as foreign and will be enlisted on a third year in the Tomsk
Polytechnic University.