Russian (Online)
How to learn Russian at the Language Centre including pathways, timetables and fees.
Hilary Term Course Timetable 2021
Enrolment information for non-members of the University is here. |
Course Pathway |
Stage* |
Part |
Duration |
Day and time of live session |
Date of first live session | Date of final live session |
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Full, join waiting list | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Thursdays 12:00 - 13:00 | 28 January 2021 | 04 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Mondays 14:00 - 15:00 | 25 January 2021 | 01 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Fridays 09:00 - 10:00 | 29 January 2021 | 05 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesdays 11:00 - 12:00 | 26 January 2021 | 02 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00 | 28 January 2021 | 04 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Fridays 10:00 - 11:00 | 29 January 2021 | 05 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesdays 15:00 - 16:00 | 26 January 2021 | 02 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Thursdays 13:00 - 14:00 | 28 January 2021 | 04 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 3 | 2 | Weeks 2-7 | Wednesdays 13:00 - 14:00 | 27 January 2021 | 03 March 2021 |
ENROL | General (Online) | 4/5 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Thursdays 11:00-12:00 | 28 January 2021 | 04 March 2021 |
The Advanced courses cover Stages 5, 6 and 7, and are suitable for learners with a CEFR level of B1 and above. More information on our Stages can be found on the assess your level webpage.
MT = Michaelmas Term (October - December); HT = Hilary Term (January - March); TT = Trinity Term (April-June)
*A Stage is made up of three Parts, usually Part 1 is Michaelmas term, Part 2 is Hilary term and Part 3 is Trinity term. However, in some instances we will run another Part 1 in Hilary term due to popularity, please check the timetable carefully. Please note, complete beginners (Stage 1) cannot join Parts 2 or 3 if they have not completed Part 1.
**Learners will be divided into two groups by the tutor, so that one group has their live session for the first 30 minutes, and the second group has their live session for the second 30 minutes.
Fees, funding, enrolment and mode of delivery
If the course on which you would like to enrol is fully booked, please check the timetable to see if the same course is being offered at a different time (many of our courses have several iterations, each with a different day/time for the ‘live session’). In addition, we operate a first-come, first-served waiting list, simply click on the Join the Waiting List button alongside the course of your choice and we will email you if a space becomes available.
Priority funding for Hilary term is now open. The deadline to apply is by 12 noon on Wednesday of Week 1 (Wednesday 20 January 2021).
If you need to learn a language to support your studies, you can ask your college, department or faculty to sponsor you via our Priority Funding scheme. You'll need to seek permission from your tutor/supervisor, obtain the email address of the financial signatory in your college/department/faculty, and click on the link to the Priority Funding Application Form below. Priority Funding is not available for Fast Track courses. See our course handbook for more information.
Colleges will consider refunding students up to half the Fast Track course fees on completion of the course at the end of Trinity term. Please contact your college to find out more about their arrangements before you start your course. A form to record the agreement between a student and their college of their eligibility for the reimbursement scheme is available for students to download below: it should not be returned to the Language Centre.
For Learners with an Oxford University SSO (Single Sign-On) simply click on the enrol button next to the class that you wish to join.
For Learners without an Oxford University SSO, or who are not members of the University, please email admin@lang.ox.ac.uk with the following details:
- Full name
- Email address and phone number
- The name of the course you wish to study (including Stage and Part)
- The start date and time of the course
- Your connection to Oxford University, if any (to determine course fee)
We will then provisionally enrol you onto the course and send you a link to the Oxford University Online Store for payment. Once payment is received we will confirm your place on the course.
What happens after I enrol?
After enrolment you will receive an automated booking email to confirm your payment. From Week 1 you will be added to the course on Canvas (Oxford University's Virtual Learning Environment). You will receive an invitation to join Canvas, please accept it and follow the instructions for your course and make sure to go through your learning pathway before your first live session with your tutor. Course materials will be available a week before each live session. Please make sure that you read the course handbook for the course you wish to take with us as this contains more detailed information.
We will be starting all our courses for 2020-21 through a flexible and inclusive mode of delivery, which will all be online. This will include small group live online conversation classes every week and online learning pathways for preparatory taught content, activities, and feedback - all using the University's Virtual Learning Environment, Canvas.
Having had the opportunity to learn from the experience and feedback from our learners and tutors in Trinity 2020, we are confident that this mode of delivery works well for our community of learners. It enables you to work at your own pace, have access to a complete set of learning materials beyond the life of the course to master and review - it also facilitates high quality feedback both of a generic and individual nature.
Pathways
Choose the pathway that works best for you by consulting our handbooks (see right hand column) or watching the "How to Choose your Pathway" video via the link below.
- Focus on communication and use of all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
- Term by term commitment
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded option available with Priority funding scheme
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1
- Length of live online session: 30 minutes
- Learning pathway including language instruction and guided learning: 1.5 - 2 hours per week
- Recommended self-study and practice time: 2 hours per week
- Focus on communication and use of all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
- Yearly commitment with possible entry point in Hilary term
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded (and contributory) options available with some programmes of Study from selected Faculties / departments (Mathematical Institute, Material Sciences, Physics and Chemistry) see appendix 3 in the Fast Track handbook for further information
- Part funding reimbursed by Colleges (UG) or Faculties (PG) upon completion of course and assessments
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1 (or possibly 2 for Stages 1+2)
- Length of live online session: 1 hour (or possibly 2 x 30 minutes for Stages 1+2)
- 2 learning pathways per week: 3 to 4 hours including language instruction videos and guided learning activities, communicative tasks and feedback
- Recommended additional self-study and practice time: 1 to 2 hours per week
Whether you have been short of time or found it difficult to keep up with your course, or if you prefer learning in a more intensive and focussed manner, we run a selection of our most popular General and Academic courses in an Online Intensive format during Weeks 8, 9 and 10 at the end of each term. Enrolments for these courses will normally open in Week 6 .
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Limited variety of Stages available, mostly beginner and advanced
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Term by term commitment
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Taught in Weeks 8, 9 and 10 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity) – Options for Advanced courses also available pre-term in September
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Number of live online sessions per week: 2
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Length of live online session: 2 x 30 minutes
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Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 12
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Entry: first-come, first-served
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Fully-funded Priority places available for students sponsored by their college/department (see Priority Funding box on this page for further information)
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Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
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Further resources
Library shelfmark: RU
At Oxford
- Russian at Oxford: undergraduate level, research
- Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library
- St Antony´s Russian and Eurasian Studies
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford. Please note: access is limited
to those in the Oxford domain. - The last five years of the listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are available on WebLearn They also
are in print in the library with audio materials available for the listening comprehension examination. - The Oxford University Russian Society is also on Facebook
General
- Academic.ru a collection of dictionaries, including specialised dictionaries
- BBC languages ideal for beginners
- Beginner's Russian to be used in combination with Beginner's Russian, Hippocrene Books,a textbook used in our courses
- CEELBAS language repository with a lot of open access resources in Russian
- CRCEES at the University of Glasgow
- Golosa Basic Course in Russian introductory Russian course focusing oncommunicative language and grammar/structure. The course is in the Language Centre library
- History of Slavic languages:Polish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian in comparison
- Learn Russian Free frequency vocabulary lists (2000 most common words) and quizzes
- Multitran dictionary
- On-line Russian reference grammar
- REESweb : Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources at the University of Pittsburg
- Ruskiy Mir Foundation
- Ruslan Limited free demos of the first lessons from the textbooks which are in the library
- Russian national corpus "intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and variousassociated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners
learning the language" - Russian sign language: the film Country of the Deaf which is in the library, contains some Russian sign language (written, visual)
- SEELRC The Slavic and East European Language Research Center, Duke University
- Study Russian online for beginners. Contains some grammatical explanations, phonetics, help on reading, vocabulary topics
- Slavic Dictionary
Culture & blogs
- Flaxenwave a blog on Russian poetry translations in English
- From the ends to the beginning a bilingual anthology of Russian poetry, also contains audio material
- ExLibris latest cultural comments
- Glagoslav publications a publisher specialised in translating modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian literature
- Lizoksbooks a blog on Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian contemporary literature
- Mosfilm on youtube: one of the largest film databases on the www
- Open culture website where you can find a lot of Tarkovsky films online
- Pushkin's poems bilingual edition
- Russian archives online photographs, films, audio clips and transcripts from the fifteen republics of the former USSR
- Russian Dinosaur a high quality blog on Russian literature and translation issues from an Oxford academic
- Lib Ru Virtual library
- Vestigio a blog about life in the UK through Russian eyes
- Vintage Film Club a collection of films, some free, some pay-per-view, from LenFilm studios in St Petersburg, with English subtitles
Media
If you can't find the media you want, try our multilingual page
Latest news will be on the Library Netvibes page
- BBC Russian
- Kommersant.ru
- RuTube the Russian youtube
- Izvestia
- Pravda
- Snob.ru
- Novaya Gazeta Newspaper known for its controversial and often anti-governmental stories
- Echo of Moscow poehali weekly programme with text and sound version
- Television channels
MOOCs and Searching
- Yandex a very powerful search engines, also has a browser
- Rambler
- Universarium.org another MOOC platform with some Russian language course
- Ru e class a MOOC search engine
Politics and Social Sciences
- Moscow Mayor's Office
- Russian Politics page from RT
- Russian Politics page from the Financial Times
- Russian Politics page from the Economist
Course fees
Useful links
Course textbooks
Information about course textbooks can be found in the course handbooks above.