St. Petersburg

[kasak.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone! I'm going to be in St. Petersburg from June to August taking a few classes at the Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen) through ACTR. I was just curious if anyone else in the community had done it before, or has any other bits of advice about St. Petersburg before I head off. Also, if there is there is anyone in the city who would like to hone their English skills, I'd be more than happy to see if we can't make that happen in exchange for help with my Russian.

Thank you!

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Здравствуйте! Я буду в Петербурге от июня до августа для нескольких классов в Российском государственном педагогическом унверситете им. А. И. Герцена через ACTR. Мне хотелось бы узнать, есть ли кто-нибудь в этом коммюнити, который уже сделал это, или есть ли ответ для меня о Петербурге до того, как лечу туда. Если кто-нибудь хочет сделать успехи в английском языке, я был бы очень рад увидеть, если было бы возможно, хотя мне конечно хотелось бы помощь с русским языком в обмен на мою помощь с английским.

Спасибо огромное!

Comments

[quem98.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I went with ACTR and really liked it.

If you can, request to live with Valentina and Evgeny Epshtein. They are wonderful and live right next door to the Hermitage.

If you want to know about the program, my IM is the same as my LJ name.

[oryx_and_crake]

I could make some corrections in your Russian text (if you want me to, of course).

[nicodimus-canis.livejournal.com]

I live in St-Petersburg. What would you like to learn about it?

[alice-ladloyn.livejournal.com]

i'm ready to help with Russian and info about St.Petersburg :)

[ssegrey.livejournal.com]

I would like to help you with transfer, apartment, russian language and as a nignt club guide. Write me smotrov@mail.ru. Сергей

[city-twilight.livejournal.com]

*cries* owww why i am not living in StPetersburgh?????
*cries*

[bridgetdarcy.livejournal.com]

Herzen is the best :) (I am a Herzen Uni grad not in SPb any more - you made the right choice!)

[serpent-849.livejournal.com]

i have more remarks and i'll write them here if you want, so i'll just write the one that you most likely won't find in the dictionary: community is usually written as коммьюнити, because there's j before u. :)

just a couple of things...

[bridgetdarcy.livejournal.com]

Я буду в Петербурге с июня по август для занятий в Российском государственном педагогическом унверситете им. А. И. Герцена через ACTR. Мне хотелось бы узнать, есть ли кто-нибудь в этом коммьюнити (или - сообществе), который уже сделал это, или даст мне совет касательно Петербурга до того, как я улечу. Если кто-нибудь хочет продвинуться (или - поупражняться) в английском языке, я был бы очень рад попробовать это организовать (или - попробовать вам в этом помочь) в обмен на помощь с русским.

[sveta-ko.livejournal.com]

I am from St.Petersburg but I don't live there anymore, although I'm going to be there in June. We are going to St.Petersburg in Fall with my husband where he will study Russian. We would like to know your opinion about classes you are going to take b/c we haven't chosen any school yet. If you could email us when you are done or post your experience in this community it would be great! Thanks in advance
my email (just in case) luchicksveta@yahoo.com

Re: just a couple of things...

[oryx_and_crake]

I guess it is better to say "по линии ACTR" than "через ACTR" in this context.

to hone their English skills - усовершенствовать свой английский (you can safely omit язык here)

[lizphiz.livejournal.com]

I don't have any relevant answers to your questions, but I thought I'd mention that I'm going to be @ Herzen through UNI from June-July, so maybe we'll bump into each other.

Just thought that was interesting. :)

[winnie-bordist.livejournal.com]

I live here =) Would be glad to show you around =)

[capricosha.livejournal.com]

Welcome to StPete. Feel free to ask questions or help

[thebigcooke.livejournal.com]

As quem98 noted ACTR is a really good program and your russian will boom from being immersed in it. They will have new resident directors this summer and upcoming academic year so it maybe really interesting.

looking for a student

[ponka682.livejournal.com]

Dear, our family with 3 y.o. child plans to provide free place to live and other benefits to native English speaking student.
Our family consists of grandma, grandpa, mam, dad and sun. All family members have higher education and are working in different spheres: audit, hi-tech, comp. science.
We wish to invite a young person (girl is more preferable :)) from the UK or US in fond of children and dreaming of studding language in St.-Petersburg University or other uni to do a good career in the future.
Main responsibilities are designed now as to play with the boy, to read books and to tell him the stories for 3-4 hours a day.
We can suggest the following living conditions: private room (or private cottage after construction works will be finished) in the familiy's villa in the nearest suburb of St.-P (45 min from the cener of St.-Petersburg), meal, housekipper's services, mountain sking on weekends etc.
But I suppouse you have already found you landlords and are not interested in us as well as in skiing in July :)
Anyway if someboby is interested and is planning to learn Russian in St.-P, please, do not hesitate to write me about yourself by e-mail ponka682@yahoo.com and I'll provide you with more information about place of living, family, child and some references and photos.
Irina