{"id":2448,"date":"2023-10-06T19:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T23:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:10:44","slug":"connecting-through-language-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2023\/10\/06\/connecting-through-language-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Connections through Language Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Dickinson students taking Russian all know, a key feature of the Russian-language curriculum is periodic exchanges with native speakers across the globe. These exchanges are organized thematically around topics and issues that students are studying in a given class. They not only offer Dickinson students the chance to practice their Russian in authentic settings, but help build cultural connections with Russian-speaking peers.<\/p>\n<p>On October 6, 2023, students in Prof. DeBlasio&#8217;s advanced-level course (taught in Russian) on &#8220;Popular Culture and New Media&#8221; connected with university students from Moscow, including from the Higher School of Economics and the Peoples&#8217; Friendship University.<\/p>\n<p>Language exchanges are organized and supported by Irina Filippova, the Dickinson director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/1607\/dickinson_in_georgia_tbilisi\">Dickinson Center in Tbilisi, Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Dickinson students taking Russian all know, a key feature of the Russian-language curriculum is periodic exchanges with native speakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1846,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}