Open uni: Russian 1, distance and online teaching, spring 2025
- Date:
- 27.1.2025 - 20.4.2025
- Credits:
- 3 ECTS credits
- Location:
- -
- Continuous learning category:
- Languages and communication
- Teaching format:
- Distance teaching, Independent learning
- Price:
- 60 € (VAT 0%)
Content: Russian for beginners! On the course, students practice the communicative situations listed in the learning outcomes and their relevant vocabulary, phrases and structures: question sentences, gender of nouns, prohibition words нет and не, personal and possessive pronouns, numbers 1-100, clock times and days of the week. The student learns how to use the nominative and prepositional cases. The student gets familiar with the present tense of verbs.
After completing this course, the student is able to read and write using Cyrillic alphabet and knows the common grammatic rules of Russian pronunciation.
The student is familiar with the script and common expressions of politeness and can use Russian to say hello and goodbye, introduce themselves, ask questions, order at a café, ask and give directions, and talk about themselves, their family and studies. The student is able to use the relevant Russian structures in the above situations.
The objective is to attain the level A1.1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).
Study methods
The course is mostly independent study in Moodle and pair exercises but there are Zoom lectures too. The Zoom lectures are optional.
Schedule: The course is organized from January 27 to April 20. Optional Zoom lectures on Thursdays at 16-18. Please note that independent studying in Moodle starts before the first Zoom lecture.
The teaching language is English.
There are 10 places reserved for open university students on this course. The course is organized in cooperation with the KiVANET cooperation network. If you are a degree student in a Finnish university, please register according to the instructions of the KiVANET network.
Study units cost 20 € / credit point. This price holds for the academic year 2024–2025.
For more information on study fees and payment and cancellation terms, please see: Registration, study fees and right to study | University of Eastern Finland (uef.fi).
Fees for purchasing/lending literature are not covered by the University.
If you can’t identify yourself using the Suomi.fi service or your employer would pay your tuition fee, please contact our student affairs secretary; their contact information is below.
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