Literate speech is the ability to express yourself in a literary language in such a way as to convey your idea to the interlocutor, readers or listeners, to be correctly understood and to exclude a double interpretation of your message, it is especially important for foreigners who want to learn how to communicate in Russian in Russia and abroad. Literary language is a component of literate speech. The literary language refers to the norms of the Russian language, which are mandatory for use in official documents, the education system, science, culture, journalism, and fiction. It is on them that one should be guided in everyday life and daily communication. Our speech is made up of words. Good speech and vocabulary go hand in hand. Equally important in communication is the technique of speech. Speech technique is a set of practical skills for presenting information in an oral format, or, more simply, the way we speak. If competent written speech is achieved by working on the vocabulary and literary norms of the language, it is also important for oral speech to convey a beautifully formulated thought so that it does not lose its beauty and strength. Beautiful literate oral speech is impossible without a well-trained voice, so you need to work on your voice, even if it seems to you that everything is fine with you. A well-delivered speech will be your faithful companion for life. Success in relationships, career and business depends on the ability to speak well! Why do we need competent speech: • For communication and mutual understanding. • To convey information. • To share information. • For an adequate and most complete expression of one's own thoughts, emotions, feelings. • For academic success: writing essays, speaking at seminars, whiteboard answers, oral and written exams. • For a successful career: writing resumes, interviewing, negotiating, preparing reports, presentations, formulating terms of reference, marketing strategies, innovation proposals, and more. • For fruitful creativity: writing fiction, articles, reviews, maintaining a personal blog, preparing and conducting interviews, compiling a catalog of your paintings, annotations to your books, descriptions of music albums. • For teaching work, including online. Objectives of the course: I. To develop self-confidence and self-confidence in students. The result is ease, joy and pleasure in communicating with people and the public. Increasing self-esteem and stress resistance, getting rid of the fear of public speaking. II. Form a clear, logical and interesting speech Course participants will become bright and charismatic speakers. They will easily find a common language with the interlocutors. They will ensure that they are listened to with attention, interest and respect. They will be noticed and remembered during their public performance. III. Train Persuasion and Influence Skills Meetings, presentations, negotiations, public speaking, dealing with opponents, management, and subordinates all require persuasion and influence skills. Target audience - students of foreign universities studying Russian (level of language proficiency: B1 - C1). Courses for everyone who wants to improve their speech, make it interesting, bright, convincing.

- Teacher: Ольга Викторовна Мещерякова
- Teacher: Алла Александровна Тархова
Communication in Russian in a particular field of activity is impossible without a solid language base of appropriate content, which allows future specialists to competently build oral and written business communication. The objectives of the course are to form and improve the level of speech competencies in foreign students necessary for the implementation of oral and written business communication; formation of interest among a foreign audience in the study of the Russian business language. Target audience - students of foreign universities studying Russian (level of language proficiency: B1 - C1).

- Teacher: Ольга Владимировна Барабаш
- Teacher: Ольга Викторовна Мещерякова
Communication in Russian, understanding it in oral and written form is impossible without knowledge of the stable turns (phraseological units) that have formed in it, giving speech figurativeness, expressiveness, reflecting the peculiarities of the national perception of reality, the peculiarities of the thinking of the Russian people. Russian phraseology is closely connected with the history of our country, its culture and traditions, and therefore the semantics of set expressions often includes such culturally determined components that may be incomprehensible to speakers of another language and culture. A feature of the proposed educational course is its focus on the popularization of the Russian language by introducing foreign citizens to the richness and national identity of Russian phraseology. The purpose of the course "Learning to understand Russian phraseology" is to form and increase the interest of a foreign audience in the study of the Russian language on the basis of acquaintance with the richness and national originality of Russian phraseology. Target audience - students of foreign universities studying Russian (level of language proficiency: B1 - C1).

- Teacher: Ольга Владимировна Барабаш
- Teacher: Ольга Викторовна Мещерякова
It is important for foreign citizens to master the Russian language if they have the necessary vocabulary that allows them to understand and create texts in Russian for solving communication problems in various areas of communication. All this is possible if foreign students acquire knowledge about the lexical system of the Russian language. A feature of the proposed educational course is its focus on expanding the vocabulary of foreign citizens through acquaintance with the lexical system of the Russian language, getting an idea about the dictionaries of the Russian language and the possibilities of using them for successful communication.
The purpose of the course "Russian Vocabulary" is to form and increase the interest of a foreign audience in the study of the Russian language on the basis of acquaintance with the lexical system of the Russian language and the main dictionaries of the Russian language.
Target audience - students of foreign universities studying Russian (level of language proficiency: B1 - C1).

- Teacher: Людмила Борисовна Гурьянова
- Teacher: Галина Ивановна Канакина
- Teacher: Ольга Викторовна Мещерякова
- Teacher: Инесса Геннадьевна Родионова