Intensive Tatar in Kazan

The Critical Languages Institute offers an 8-week intensive language program in Kazan for students of Intermediate Tatar. The program awards 8 ASU credits at the 200 level. Students live with host families, participate in an extensive program of cultural events and excursions, as well as participating in summer internships and daily intensive language courses.

This intensive course provides intermediate instruction in Tatar language and culture.

The goal of this course is to help students expand their mastery of Tatar vocabulary, grammar and orthography, as well as to develop more advanced listening, reading, conversational, and compositional skills.

The course incorporates a wide variety of activities, combining textbook material with authentic texts and videos; with frequent team exercises to help students achieve a working, practical knowledge of the language and culture.

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• understand factual written and spoken content on familiar topics
• be able to participate in routine social interactions
• be able to accomplish daily tasks with ease
• have a solid command of the core grammatical constructions of Tatar
• be conversant with all the grammatical structures of the language
• be prepared for advanced study

A working knowledge of Russian, while not required, will be vary helpful to students of Tatar in Kazan.