Students Study Russian Language and Culture

The students at the Milton AEP have been learning about Russian Language and culture. They have surveyed everything from Eastern Rite Orthodoxy and the unification of Russia to a Russian television series, <<счастливы вместе>>, that has a popular American variant. Linguistically, the students have become familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet, cognates, and even surveyed some grammatical concepts, such as verb conjugation and the absence of articles.  

On Wednesday, November 14th , the students had the opportunity to test their conversational Russian chops with Alex Bird, a Bucknell Senior who recently returned from a 7 month study of language and psychology in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

She gave a slideshow presentation and talk of her time in Russia, then entertained questions from the students relating to current popular and political trends. This 3 week survey, juxtaposed with the previous studies of American Constitutional history and the recent elections, has undoubtedly advanced and rounded the students’ worldview. До  свиданья!, From Milton AEP.