For kids 10+
Speaking and writing with confidence
An online Russian program for bilingual teenagers, designed to develop their skills from everyday spoken Russian to the level expected in a Russian school.
Who is it for
For Russian-speaking students aged 10 and above who live abroad, speak Russian fluently at home, and are ready to take their language skills to the next level.
Skills your child will develop
Learn to write accurately, express ideas on more complex topics, and develop a deeper understanding of how Russian works. The program combines the academic standards of Russian secondary school with effective methods for teaching Russian as a second native language.
How the program works
The program is divided into three progressive stages. At each stage, your child develops both spoken and written Russian: learning spelling and sentence structure, analyzing literature, supporting their opinions with clear arguments, and creating their own texts in a variety of styles and genres.
Practical Russian: confident communication in context
Academic Russian: grammar, structure, and syntax
Stylistics and confident language use
Program stages
Stage goal: move beyond everyday conversational Russian, build a richer vocabulary, and help children use Russian confidently in more intellectual, academic, and creative contexts.
Your child will learn to:
Discuss relevant and engaging topics with confidence:
Number of lessons: 36
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
Your child will learn to:
Discuss relevant and engaging topics with confidence:
- talk about themselves and the country they live in;
- discuss technology, media, science, modern careers, travel, and art;
- use idioms, metaphors, and common expressions naturally and appropriately;
- use participles, adverbial participles, verbs of motion, and Russian case forms correctly.
- choose convincing arguments;
- take part in respectful discussions;
- formulate clear and logical conclusions.
- recognize subtext;
- analyze plots and characters in both classic and contemporary literature;
- explore works by Ivan Krylov, Nikolay Nosov, and Natalia Dashevskaya.
Number of lessons: 36
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
tage goal: turn an intuitive knowledge of Russian into strong, conscious language skills, develop reliable spelling habits, and build a solid foundation in school-level grammar.
Your child will learn to:
Write accurately and avoid common mistakes:
Build sentences correctly:
Create well-structured texts:
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
Your child will learn to:
Write accurately and avoid common mistakes:
- identify unstressed noun and verb endings correctly;
- master the rules for -тся / -ться and the use of не with verbs;
- use the soft sign correctly after sibilants and in verb forms;
- apply spelling rules for roots with vowel alternation;
- distinguish clearly between ь and ъ, as well as between prefixes and prepositions in writing.
Build sentences correctly:
- identify the main and secondary parts of a sentence;
- use structures with coordinated parts and forms of address;
- apply punctuation rules correctly.
Create well-structured texts:
- distinguish between narrative, descriptive, and argumentative writing;
- write their own compositions and essays.
- analyze works by Alexander Pushkin, including “The Blizzard,” as well as poetry and contemporary prose, including stories by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
At this stage, teenagers bring their Russian language knowledge together into a clear system and learn to apply it more confidently in practice. The focus is on accurate writing, working with texts, developing academic language skills, and expanding vocabulary.
Your child will learn to:
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.
Your child will learn to:
- apply previously learned spelling rules confidently in writing;
- write numerals correctly;
- distinguish and spell prefixes ending in з-/с- and пре-/при- correctly;
- use не correctly with different parts of speech;
- distinguish between prepositions and prefixes in writing;
- understand word structure and how words are formed;
- navigate the Russian case system with confidence;
- create a text outline and produce both detailed and concise summaries;
- understand and use idiomatic expressions;
- distinguish between conversational, literary, academic, and formal styles of language;
- discuss contemporary topics related to science, technology, art, travel, and culture.
- read poetry by Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Fyodor Tyutchev, and poets of the Silver Age;
- read Valentin Rasputin’s short story “French Lessons”;
- learn to analyze and discuss literary texts.
Stage duration: from 5 months, depending on the number of lessons per week.