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Version 1.0.0, 3 October 2026
level: beginner
English for Russian speakers who live in the UK and know a little English. The course takes you from A1 to a confident A2 through everyday British situations: neighbours and forms, renting a flat, the supermarket and café, buses and trains, the GP, pharmacy, 111 and 999, the council and bins, the bank, your child's school, work and a job interview. Every unit gives you ready-to-use phrases, one piece of grammar (to be, articles, Present Simple and Continuous, Past Simple, will and going to, Present Perfect, modal verbs) and politeness — why a correct Russian-style sentence can sound rude in English and how to fix it. Explanations are in Russian; examples and dialogues are in British English.
28 units · ~36.8 h without the optional units, ~42.8 h with them · material in Русский · author: Andrey Kuralekh
Version 1.1.0, 23 September 2026
level: intermediate
Business writing in English for software engineers in Big 4 consulting. The course is not about the format of a letter but about pragmatics: why a Russian-speaking professional is heard as blunter than they are, and how that is fixed. Its axis is room for refusal: an English business message leaves the reader a way to object, decline or explain, and that room is created by the text rather than assumed. Six classes of softening, a 22-item RU→EN interference register, the softening ceiling (where directness is mandatory), the grammar of blameless causation. Genres: client email, code review, chat and tracker, escalation, refusal and change request, status and RAG, incident communication. Every example comes from an engineer’s working day on a project. Entry level B1–B2, model answers are given at two levels.
Languages · 20 units · ~28.5 h without the optional units, ~29.5 h with them · material in Русский · author: Andrey Kuralekh · recipes: 1