Courses

Russian Language and Culture in-class



Program (Level A1)
- Introduction to Russian history, geography and culture;
- Cyrillic alphabet;
- The situation of the Russian language in its history and in the present.
- Themes (speaking and writing): the forms of greeting; the Russian patronymic; cities and countries, nationalities and languages; the family; spaces and objects from the home and the classroom;
the parts of the day, days of the week, the months and the seasons; colors, numbers and sizes;
the professions and day-to-day activities; the money, values and prices.
- Grammar: a simple sentence (affirmative, negative and interrogative); gender and number of nouns;
personal, possessive pronouns, interrogative and statements; the adjectives in several cases;
regular verbs of the first and second conjugations in the present and past tense; ordinal numerals; order and syntactic functions in simple sentences.

Professor: Elena Bulakh



Prof. Elena Bulakh is a Russian language lecturer at SOCIUS/CSG-ISEG (Ulisboa, Portugal) from 2013, and currently a researcher at Institute of Social Sciences (Ulisboa). Native russian language teacher. PhD degree in Comparative/Historical/Typological Linguistics from Pyatigorsk Linguistic University (Russia, 2001) - PhD degree recognised by the Universidade de Lisboa on 27/08/2009. She has been teaching at several russian and portuguese Universities starting from 1998. Holds a number of certificates of postgraduate courses on various aspects of Russian and English language teaching (2012 – 2016). Member of The International Association for Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL). Author of several books and numerous articles on comparative linguistic aspects (2001 - 2019). She acted as the official opponent and the member of jury for Masters and PhD dissertations at the University of Minho, Braga (2015, 2017 and 2018). Organiser of several international conferences/workshops and as an editor of works dedicated to the Russian language, culture, history and art (2008 – 2019). Recently she was the co-organiser of the first event “Vital Topics MBA ISEG” (25.09.19), dedicated to 240 - years of diplomatic and economic relations between Portugal and Russia.

GROUP CLASSES
Duration (each level): 60h
Schedule: daytime or after-work
Start-date: defined by the number of registrations (with 4 students minimum it is possible to open a class)
Maximum participants: 10

PRIVATE CLASSES
Duration (each level): 60h
Schedule: daytime or after-work
Start-date: to be defined with the student

LEVELS
A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2
Quadro Europeu Comum de Referencia para as Linguas: Aprendizagem, Ensino, Avaliação (QECR)

CERTIFICATION
At the end of each level, a certificate is issued by SOCIUS/ISEG-ULisboa. The only way to obtain official international certification is by taking an exam at an accredited entity. Professor Elena Bulakh gives all the indications about this process, and she also gives preparation classes for students who intend to take this exam.

TARGET AUDIENCE
General public of all ages, students, teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs and all professionals with an interest in the area.

LOCATION
ISEG, R. das Francesinhas, Lisbon

FEE
PRIVATE CLASSES
Pacote 60h: 1140€ (c/ desconto: 1026€*)
Pacote 30h: 570€ (c/ desconto: 513€*)
Pacote 15h: 285€ (c/ desconto: 256€*)
Pacote 5h: 95€ (c/ desconto: 85€*)

GROUP CLASSES
Pack 60h: 720€ (w/ discount: 648€*)
Pack 30h: 360€ (w/ discount: 324€*)
Pack 15h: 180€ (nw/ discount: 162€*)
Pack 5h: 60€ (nw/ discount: 54€*)

*Discount: the discounted values are only applied to new students, throughout the frequency of the first complete level (60h).

IMPORTANT:
- The course fees are paid through the packs with hours of classes, available above;
- After the registration confirmation, to start the course, you must purchase one of these packs;
- After finishing the hours of the current pack, you must purchase a new pack to continue the course;
- There is no obligation to purchase always the same pack (nb. of hours);
- Classes are scheduled by the Teacher, according to the Student's availability;
- The cancellation of a scheduled class must be done up to 12 hours before the scheduled date (otherwise the class time is deducted from the current pack);
- Each pack with hours of classes is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase;
- After passing the level, you must submit a new registration form, without taking advantage of the new student discount.

PAYMENT
Bank transfer to SOCIUS IBAN: PT50 0035 0371 00004324 830 29

INFORMATIONS
socius@iseg.ulisboa.pt | 213925910/4