Keep Your Russian Active.
Speak It Every Week.
Authentic content through the week, short activities, and live
small-group conversations on Sundays. For intermediate,
advanced, and heritage learners.
NOW ENROLLING: FIVE PLACES IN THE NEXT GROUP.
$39.00 a month. Cancel any time
You don’t need another textbook. You need somewhere to use what you know.
You have studied Russian for a while. You know the grammar and you recognize a lot of words. Then a real conversation starts.
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Your know what you want to say. - You start building the sentence in your head.
- Which case? What was that word? Do I need a perfective?
- By the time you’re ready, the conversation has moved on.
Knowing more Russian is not a problem.
Using it often enough is.
Just any kind of practice won't work.
You need the right one.
Regular practice
Use Russian often enough that words, expressions, and structures becomes easier to retrieve when you need them.
Real conversations
Everyday life, culture, experiences, and opinions - the conversations you actually want to have in Russian.
A familiar group
The same small group each time, so you can think less about mistakes and more about what you are saying.
That’s exactly what METRO Practice program from the Russian Mobile Academy provides - a simple system for keeping your Russian active.
YOUR WEEK
Four points of contact,
then the rest of your week is yours
No curriculum to complete. No homework to keep up with.
Russian simply becomes part of your week, fitting into its usual rhythm.
WHAT GETS TALKED ABOUT
Food & Traditions
Regional dishes, celebrations, and everyday culture across Russia
Media & Everyday Life
Video, interviews, podcasts, and discussions about contemporary Russia
Travel & Regions
Cities, transport, travel experiences, and life across Russia's diverse regions
Seasons & Lifestyle
How the life changes through the year: weather, routines, activities, sports
Culture & Society
Literature, film, music, art, history, and social trends
Technology & Social Media
Social media, smartphones, apps, digital life, and technology trends
On selected Sundays guests join the live group calls - teachers, IT specialists,
journalists, musicians, business owners, people living across Russian regions, and Russian speakers from outlide of Russia - so conversation comes from somewhere real.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Angelina Usacheva
Angelina leads the live conversations and Telegram chat activities from St. Petersburg, keeps them moving, and helps members say what they mean more naturally.
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Host of "Radio St. Peterburg" who regularly interviews guests from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds - Led the Russian Speaking Club at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
- 8+ years of teaching Russian as a foreign language
- B.A./M.A. in Russian as a Foreign Language/ Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
- Fluent in English, learning Italian, experienced across cultures
Fluency grows through repeated use.
METRO Practice combines new language and authentic content with repeated opportunities to retrieve what you already know, respond in real time, and use Russian across different situations.
WHAT CHANGES
- You retrieve fasterFamiliar words and structures become easier to reach for at the moment you need them.
- You respond more naturallyLess time building sentences in your head, more time listening, reacting, and talking.
- You speak with more confidenceLess attention on getting everything right, more on saying what you actually mean.
WHO IS IT FOR
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Intermediate learners
Passed the beginner level, wanting more chances to use Russian in real conversation.
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Advanced learners
Already comfortable, perhaps professionally, and wanting confidence across everyday and contemporary topics.
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Heritage speakers
You speak Russian with family and want a wider vocabulary and a broader range of subjects.
MEMBERS
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It's the best tool I've found to keep my Russian active.
The opportunity to interact with native speakers on a variety of topics has increased my knowledge of Russian culture and improved my fluency. Jonathan S. Teacher, USA
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It took my fluency to the next level.
Angelina is a very intuitive teacher who can work with us as a group, tailoring a conversation to each person’s level of fluency. I highly recommend this program.
Erica J.,Lawyer, USA
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The program helped me to expand my vocabulary.
The topics in our speaking club and in our Telegram chat are always interesting. Angelina is really enthusiastic and it’s great fun working with her.
Susi G., Librarian, Switzerland
5 places available in the next METRO Practice group.
Groups are kept at five, so everybody speaks.
Once the group is full, enrollment will be closed and the waitlist is open.
MEMBERSHIP
$39.99/ month
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Three live Zoom conversations each month
60-minutes with Angelina and a maximum of 5 participants. - Fresh Russian throughout the week
Monday, Wednesday & Friday activities in Telegram - Contemporary topics, authentic Russian
Everyday life, culture, current news, and colloquial speech. - A consistent small community
The same people each time, not a new room of strangers. - Guest speakers
From across the Russian-speaking world, on selected Sunday conversations. - Cancel anytime. No long commitment.
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Your first month is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee
If it is not the right fit, email us within 30 days and we refund it.
QUESTIONS
If you can hold a simple conversation on a familiar topic, yes. This program is built for intermediate, advanced, and heritage speakers. It is not a beginner class.
That describe most people who join, The whole design of this program - familiar faces, topics that you already have read about, and teacher who keeps things moving - exists to close exactly this gap.
METRO Practice has no curriculum to complete. It exists to keep you using the Russian you already have. Want to maintain your Russian - choose this one.
No. There is no curriculum to finish and nothing to fall behind on. Take the activities that interest you and skip the rest.
- Each group meets on Zoom for 60 minutes, three Sundays each month, usually in the morning or noon (Eastern time).
- Each group has a maximum of 5 participants.
- The monthly live-conversation schedule is posted and pinned in the Telegram community on the 1st of each month.
- The schedule include the dates, times, topics, and discussion questions for each conversation.
- Conversations focus on everyday life, culture, current topics, experiences, and opinions—not textbook exercises.
- A Zoom link is posted in the Telegram community 10 minutes before each conversation.
- Angelina leads the conversation, keeps it moving, helps everyone participate, and shares language recommendations after the meeting.
Most live discussions are held in Zoom on Sunday morning or afternoon (EST), which works well for most members. If that time doesn't work for you, we'll do our best to place you in a group that meets at a different time.
You'll receive an email with instructions for joining the METRO Practice Telegram community, where you'll find the current month's live-conversation schedule. You can start participating in the weekly activities right away and join your group's scheduled Sunday conversations.
Yes, with no long-term commitment. Your first month is also covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee - email us at support@RussianMobileAcademy.com within 30 days and we refund it.
Keep discovering new Russian. Keep using what you already know.
That's how Russian becomes a language you can actually use.
Ready to make Russian part of your life?
and a small group you'll get to know.
Cancel anytime • Your first month is covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee
Questions before joining?
Contact Marina Koker, the founder of Russian Mobile Academy.
Phone: +1-801-824-5760
Email: marina@RussianMobileAcademy.com