Classroom Support

I really liked the experience of talking with another Russian student and learning about the culture. I learned how diverse cities can be. St Petersburg is like none I have ever seen before. I really would consider studying abroad there.

I love them so much! We get to practice our speaking and listening skills with so much one on one dialog, and I always find that I pick up some new unique vocabulary after each one. They also help to really cement the lab work into our heads because they always seem to be connected to them. I also like the challenge of it because we really have to wrack our brains to think of so much on the fly combining recall with active learning to talk and answer questions.

My students are LOVING the poboltaem sessions.

I think they’re very useful overall. The content of the sessions themselves overlaps well with the class materials – it definitely improves comprehension. I enjoy them because they’re a nice change of pace from the usual class environment

We’re really grateful for the work SRAS is doing and consider them to be a valued partner.

I think this project is fulfilling my main goal – to get my students to overcome their psychological barrier of speaking and get reassurance that they can indeed can sustain a rather long conversation with a native speaker. I could see that they are more comfortable speaking and expressing rather complex ideas despite the grammatical mistakes, which, however, do not hinder the communication of the message.