Conversational Sessions
For
✓ Beginners
✓ Intermediate
✓ Comprehensible input method fans
To get
✓ Individual highly relevant comprehensible input
✓ Video recordings
✓ Audio summaries
For
✓ Practicing oral comprehension
✓ Improving speaking abilities
✓ Staying consistent
Format options
✓ Russian - Russian
✓ Russian - English
✓ Russian - Silence
✓ Zoom
What do we do at conversational sessions?
- We speak on any topic that naturally emerges in the conversation. Life, personal stories, movies, music, art, food, society, science – anything that adults usually talk about.
- I speak Russian all the time, drawing, using gestures, illustrations, maps, sharing the screen - anything to make myself understood without translation.
- You can speak Russian or English depending on your level.
- I speak slowly and clearly, adjusting the vocabulary and sentences structures to your level.
- No English from me. English is limited to about 5% of the time.
- No grammar. Very short 5 seconds grammar explanations may pop up quite rarely especially on your demand. If you really love grammar, then I’d recommend having a mass listening experience and having internalized some grammar intuitionally first and then turning to grammar (not learning) to check yourself or clear something up.
- You start speaking little by little giving short answers to simple questions at early production stage extending the answers and your own messages gradually at a natural convenient pace at following stages.
- You can make video recordings of our meetings for rewatching them later several times which boosts your progress significantly.