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More than 700 students will begin to learn Russian at Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in the new academic year. The FEFU Center of Russian Language and Culture (CRLC) will receive most of the students from China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, the DPRK, and Latin American countries. For the first time, the university will begin to train citizens of Lebanon, Zimbabwe, and the Congo. 

As Irina Cherepovskaya, the CRLC Director, pointed out, the interest of young people from different countries to study the Russian language is growing in the world. This year alone, more than 400 people entered the FEFU Preparatory Department, including 200 ones under the quota of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Another 300 students will take language courses lasting from a month to a year.

"Students study in depth the vocabulary on engineering, technical, medical, biological or humanitarian topics at our preparatory department. Such diversity is one of the reasons for the popularity of the FEFU Center of Russian Language and Culture," Irina Cherepovskaya noted.

Author's educational methods are used in CRLC. Groups of students are formed according to the level of knowledge, which is determined at the entrance testing. To make the study more interesting, teachers actively use gaming practices, conduct excursions, literary readings, competitions on writing and calligraphy.

"All students actively participate in the extracurricular life of the university. This is very helpful in adapting and successful learning the language," added Irina Cherepovskaya. 

Traditionally, the majority of students of the CRLK are from China. In 2015 and 2016, the number of students from Latin America (Columbia, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru) increased significantly; students from the Middle East (Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iran), Africa (Tanzania, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Namibia) appeared as well.

The FEFU Center of Russian Language and Culture has been teaching Russian as a foreign language for 28 years. More than 6,000 trainees—students and faculty of foreign universities, businessmen, employees of companies and diplomatic missions in Russia and abroad—have learned to speak Russian over the years of work at the university.