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Foreign Language study creates more positive attitudes and less prejudice toward people who are different.Analytical skills improve when students study a foreign language.Business skills plus foreign language skills make an employee more valuable in the marketplace.Dealing with another culture enables people to gain a more profound understanding of their own culture.Creativity is increased with the…

During the Russian language class at Rathmines College of Further Education in Dublin: ( Left to Right ) William is interested in the challenge of learning Russian. He is making very good progress. Doireann and Harry are students in Trinity College. They are interested in reading Russian historical literature. Benny was pleasantly surprised to know…

Fei is Chinese from Beijing. He works for ”Leasing Business”, a company in China and Ireland. He constantly travels between Ireland and China for his work but now he has to travel also to Russia. Earlier he was once in Russia, in Moscow. He really liked the Russian people he met, also he liked The…

Just recently Kalinka Russian Language School formed a new beginners group (General Russian programme). There are two Italians, Alessio and Michelangelo and one Irish girl, Livia, in the group. Livia wants to travel on the Trans Siberian Railway across Russia and would also love to experience the City of Moscow. For this adventure she wants…

Why am I interested in the Russian language? I have been interested in many aspects of Russian society, religion and culture, since 1975. Really, I am a “secret Slav” – with an Irish accent. Have I ever been to Russia? Yes. In 2008 I was able to visit Russia for the first time. I was…

Kelli is a new student at Kalinka language school. She likes the challenge of studying languages in general.  She is fascinated also, with the non latin Cyrillic alphabet of Russian. This of course presents a special challenge for Kelli.  First she started to study the russian on her phone, on the app Duolingo and she…

Hi! My name is Seònaid. My Mam, Anne, and I have been studying Russian with Kalinka Language School for several years. We had been doing Russian language classes on our own for a while and we really enjoyed it. But we would often spend too much time making each other laugh and giggling instead of…

Declan, Stephen, Kieran and Barbara at their Russian language class at ’’Kalinka’’ Russian language School in Dublin. It is much more fun if you study the Russian language in a group. Barbara is from Italy originally and she is studying the Russian language for her career. She lives in Dublin now and works for an…

Joan, Lorcan and Elizabeth started studying the Russian language at group classes in Ballsbridge and Rathmines Colleges. They enjoyed their language courses there and decided to continue studying Russian at Dublin Kalinka Russian Language School. Now enjoy their classes studying the language in a small group all together. They have made big progress since they…