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The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute was founded in 1966 as a part of Moscow State University.In 1973, it obtained its independence and in 1999 a Philological Department was established so that Russian native speakers can do bachelor’s (4 years), Master's (2 years) and Ph.D. (3 years) programmes in teaching Russian as a foreign language.
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica wrote: [4]. Literary Russian as spoken by educated people throughout the empire is the Moscow dialect... The Moscow dialect really covers a very small area, not even the whole of the government of Moscow, but political causes have made it the language of the governing classes and hence of literature.
McCormick taught language lessons remotely over the Internet, [7] over time developing his own language learning method, which he called FLR (Foreign Language Roadrunning). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] According to his YouTube biography, "When I first began language learning 20 years ago, I noticed that most language books and classes did not teach students how ...
1804 – By the High Ukaz of Emperor Alexander I, the Moscow Imperial Commercial School is created teaching the English, French, German, and Latin languages.; 1806 – The school moves into a historic building – the house of the former general-governor of Moscow, Peter Eropkin, on Ostozhenka (today this is the main campus of MSLU).
The university also trains teachers of Russian and Belarusian as foreign languages. [1] It was founded in 1948 as Minsk State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages [2] and today is considered the flagship university in Belarus for language education and translator training. [3]
School education in the Russian language is a very contentious point in Estonian politics, and in 2022, the parliament approved a bill to close up all Russian language schools and kindergartens by the school year. The transition to only Estonian language schools and kindergartens will start in the 2024–2025 school year. [58] [59]
In addition, the English language has gained prominence as an international language. Therefore, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary offers instruction in English to English-speaking seminarians. The Russian language continues to be taught at HTS. The seminary emphasizes the importance of the spiritual life in theological education.
The first book printed in the "civil" script, 1708 Russian language in the Russian Empire according to the 1897 census. The political reforms of Peter the Great were accompanied by a reform of the alphabet, and achieved their goal of secularization and modernization. Blocks of specialized vocabulary were adopted from the languages of Western ...