Our Activities

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NovaMova welcomes you to Kyiv with a city tour! Our tour helps you familiarize yourself with the city so that you can maximize your stay here at NovaMova. Don’t forget to bring a good pair of walking shoes!

Peer Coaching is supplementary learning outside of NovaMova. It’s a perfect opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom to the real world.

Students are paired with a native speaker and speak only Russian while they walk around the city center. You’ll overcome your fear of speaking, gain more confidence and maybe even sound more like a local.

Have you ever gone to a restaurant, tasted something and wished you could make it at home? Well, our Cooking Club allows you to do just that! With a group of up to 10 people, NovaMova merges learning with doing. Students learn how to make Ukrainian cuisine - vareniki, borsht, solyanka, and more!

We only learn from the best, employing old Ukrainian babushki (grandmothers) and professional cooks, to
help us out.

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Take advantage of our Tandem Learning! Students are paired with a native speaking university student and go out on the streets to practice speaking Russian and English. In a cafe or restaurant, you and your partner talk about different topics while both benefiting from some language practice. It’s a win-win!

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Want to sound more like a local? Our Pronunciation Workshop is just for you! In this workshop, students work with a speech-language specialist and do a variety of exercises to help grasp Russian phonetics.

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Music is a universal language understood by many. Our Russian Singing Club is an opportunity to learn Russian in a fun way. Whether you know how to sing or not, our singing club is a great way for you to learn new words, make new friends and have a great time!

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Movies create wonderful opportunities for you to see how Russian is used in a variety of contexts. Knowing Russian exposes you to a completely new genre of cinema and we promise you’ll get invested in Russian movie culture!

NovaMova has a specially equipped movie room with high-quality sound and video where you can learn, listen and view with ease. Even our teachers prefer to use movies as a way of learning!

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Learn how to make a Motanka doll, a traditional Ukrainian amulet that offers protection and wards off evil spirits. In this workshop, students will learn the history of Motanka dolls and how to make them, all in Russian.

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Our Welcome Coffee event is a perfect way to meet like-minded people and share your love for learning! Why not do it over a hot cup of coffee?

Museums are an ideal place to learn new things! In Kyiv, we have a variety of museums, all in the city center, that cover a wide range of topics. There is something for everyone. We invite you to learn about Ukraine and its culture with us!

A tour through the exclusion zone to the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster is a once in a lifetime experience. HBO brought the events alive in their recent mini-series, but it’s another thing completely to see the towns and dwellings frozen in time since the disaster.

NovaMova can contact a tour company to book a tour for students who want to go.

Starting in the classroom, a professional photographer demonstrates the elements of good photographs. The classes are in Russian.

After the class, the photographer takes students on a photo walk through the best photo spots in Kyiv.

At the end, everyone sits down for a slideshow and receives feedback on their photos.

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Trying to decide how to spend your weekend? NovaMova can help! We keep a weekly schedule with talks, concerts, plays, and more that students can go to.

In addition, we host parties that bring together students and staff. It’s a great opportunity to mingle, practice your Russian, and have a great time!

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Speaking Club

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Cartoon Club

Dancing Workshop

Georgian Calligraphy workshop

Polyphonic singing workshop

Guest speakers lectures

Introduction to Georgian language