Echo Eastern Europe Language School is situated in the historic downtown in the 19th-century building. It is the very heart of Kyiv, just 3 minutes by foot from one of the central Underground station, Funicular railway station, Bus station and close to many of Kyiv's top tourist attractions. Our Centre is equipped with new, comfortable facilities such as whiteboards, comfortable furniture, video and audio equipment. The school's excellent location, flexible pricing and the individual approach to every student educational needs courses make it an ideal location to study Russian or Ukrainian languages. If you have any doubt about why study the Russian language in Ukraine there are several answers to dispel your doubts: - The Russian language was originated from the language of Kyivan Rus (old-Ukrainian origin), - the grammar of Russian language was written by M.Lomonosov in the 18th century on basis of Ukrainian grammar that written in 16th century by Ukrainian Meletius Smotrytsky who was a rector of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, - most of the people in Central and East Ukraine speak modern Russian language, - Ukraine is an ancient, safe, quiet, peaceful and inexpensive country for travel and learns. - if you are from US, Canada, EU, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea or Israel you don’t need a visa to come to Ukraine for up to 90 days! To keep our prices fair we have established unique partnership with one of the leading educational institution in Ukraine that located just 5 minutes by foot from our School so the Students of our centre have the unique possibility of access to the library with almost 1 million samples of educational, scientific and encyclopedic literature, magazines, newspapers, and DVDs, and use the big computer class, internet and etc. All our teachers are qualified and experienced in teaching Russian and Ukrainian language as a Foreign Language. Among our staff members professors of such institutions like Moscow State University, Kyiv National University, Kyiv National Pedagogical University, etc. All of them are native language speakers with additional knowledge of English or other European languages (this can be important if a student is a complete beginner) and have the appropriate philological degree. Our teaching team is kept up to date with the latest innovation in language teaching. Students who have successfully passed the course will be issued a Certificate of our school. Also, our school is the only in Ukraine that carries out and successfully prepares students for a TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) examination. Students can choose from general, examination business or other specific courses due to their needs, from an individual, semi-individual, group or combined classes, from total Beginner to Advanced level, from few days to one year course with any number of lessons per day. Our prices include: Preliminary testing, All learning materials! Guarantee of changing the teacher upon request, Final testing, Welcome pack with a detailed map of the city, phone numbers of emergency services, 24-hour telephone support number in Kiev for any emergency, 2-hour walk excursion with our professional English speaking guide in downtown Kiev (if ordering a program of 40 ac. hours and more), Visit the national theatre or opera (if ordering a program of 60 ac. hours and more), The possibility of participation in the Speaking Club, Issuing of our internationally recognized certificate, Receiving quality knowledge from the leading linguistic experts of Russia and Ukraine! Our centre also organises a big variety of after class activities for our students.
AMIGOS is not just a language school, our target is to TEACH COMMUNICATION SKILLS in INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. Communication is the main target of any language but, unfortunately, sometimes even if you can read, write, speak or understand a language, the communication is still not good enough. Maybe you are wondering - How can it happen? You will find the answer to this question just thinking about the way you learned your native language. Did you start studying grammar while being a baby? For sure not, we simply experienced the need of transferring some information and we learned to do it just listening and repeating what other people are saying. It means we FIRSTLY learned how to COMMUNICATE and only AFTERWARDS how to read, write or speak according to the GRAMMAR rules, and never in the other way around. This is exactly the main philosophy of AMIGOS, to make our students learning the communication as a native would do it, without splitting the learning process into different parts (reading, writing, listening, etc) but just taking it as a whole. HOW TO GET IT? AMIGOS offers an alternative based on the combination of the most efficient parts of classical methodologies. The result is an innovative way to learn a foreign language, following the requirements of the REAL LIFE but, at the same time, adapted to the INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS of each student.
The teacher Tetjana was very commited in teaching me Ukrainian. The facilites are in a good location, easy to reach and adequate. Despite the difficult overall situation the school and my teacher did a great job. more
The room was very nice and accomodating. Marina was a competent teacher with a lot of patience. The lessons were very adapted to my level of knowledge and helped me to advance my level of actively speaking the russian language. more
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