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The spirit in our school goes hand in hand with the spirit of Odessa herself. It’s an open, cosmopolitan seaport city with a long history of opening doors to visitors from every nook of the world. Sailors, tourists, merchants, musicians, artists, actors and authors have all regarded Odessa their second home. Many nationalities and diverse ethnic groups have populated Odessa for hundreds of years, so it’s always someone new to meet! Hospitality and free spirit create a perfect atmosphere for you to have a good time in the city by the seaside, as well as great learning in the Russian speaking environment!
Russian Conversational Practice (Peer coaching)
Peer coaching is an additional learning activity in the fashion of one-on-one conversation outside school. It complements formal instruction and allows you to retain your knowledge by practicing it. Besides, you learn a lot of language that cannot be found in textbooks. You overcome your fear of speaking, gain confidence using more colloquial style of speaking, and power your vocabulary.
All levels
All levels
Guest Speakers
Guest lecturers are a highlight of our program. NovaMova regularly organizes meetings with former or current members of parliament, political analysts, historians, lawyers, educators, religious leaders, and specialists in folklore. These meetings are held in our conference room which is complete with a projector, white board, audio and video equipment. We always schedule our meetings in advance and take requests from our students as to what they would be interested to learn.
All levels
All levels
The Cooking Club
Our Cooking Club gives you an opportunity to learn how to cook most favorite local traditional dishes and practice your speaking while doing it! We invite talented Ukrainian housewives and professional cooks who show you the best recipes: borshch, solyanka, olivier salad, vareniki, and many more.
All levels
Small groups (up to 10 people) will allow you to fully participate in the process of cooking. Before the class, every student gets a copy of the recipe to be cooked and a glossary of terms that will be used so that whatever is being said in the kitchen will be understood and committed to memory.
All levels
Russian Speaking Club
You can learn new words, phraseology, colloquialisms, meaningful expressions that will help you to gain better rapport with your local friends the natives and ascend near to sounding more genuinely, more like them. You will learn what to say and what avoid saying in different situations in which you can find yourself. This is what we call living the language. The Speaking Club is when the students mostly smile and participate with sheer excitement.
All levels
All levels
Russian Movie Club
The moving images are a great source of motivation and enjoyment at the same time! They make your learning keep going! Cinema uncovers wonderful opportunities to see how the language works in so many varied situations that only fiction movies can provide!
All levels
You will hear a genuine and diversified language wrapped in high-quality sound for your learning, listening and viewing pleasure. In many episodes, the visual context will help your intellect to decipher what is said at the moment even if you do not understand the lines.
Films are shown in our comfortable specially equipped movie room: both the sound and the video are of high quality so that you could hear and read effortlessly. The films are integrated into the teaching syllabus and usually is a part of your classroom before and after viewing. Many teachers today are more and more keen on building the whole course on the films of their professional preference.
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