Language Exchange in Russia

  Russia

• St. Petersburg: 
St. Petersburg
• Moscow: 
Moscow (Moskva)

Length of Position: 1-3 months

Description: Cultural Embrace offers a program to help you reach these goals in a cost-efficient, unforgettable way! With the Language Exchange program, you will be placed with a host family and teach them English, or your native tongue, for about 15 hours per week in exchange for a private room in their home and full board. This experience will earn you a chance to make life-long friends, explore the culture from an entirely new angle, and work on your own language skills in the meantime! With durations from one to three months, pre-screened, enthusiastic host families, and our pre-departure and local support, the Language Exchange program offers an experience of two lifetimes!

Highlights:
- Guaranteed Host Family Placement Prior to Departure
You will be provided with a host family profile that matches your language level, goals, and preferences prior to your departure date. All host families are pre-screened and have a past in hosting international students or other cultural exchanges. You will tutor English or your native language (ie: French, German, Russian, Chinese, etc) to your local host family for 15-20 hours/week.

- Private Accommodations and Full-Board
You will receive a private room in your host family's home, as well as 3 meal per day, 7 days per week as compensation for your services.

- Arrival Assistance & Orientation
Airport pick-up will be available, as well as an arrival orientation with our local partners.

- Visa Assistance
Cultural Embrace will provide you with the proper documentation needed to obtain a visa. We have no control or guarantees of government issuances and visa availability.

- Insurance Assistance
Cultural Embrace highly recommends obtaining international traveler's insurance. CE offers many options for insurance plans and will be happy to work with you to sign up for a policy.

- Cultural Embrace Pre-Departure Kit
Useful tips, advice, and information to prepare you for the amazing adventure of living and teaching abroad.

- Full-time Support
Cultural Embrace provides representation in the United States and your host country prior to, during, and after your placement.

- Optional On-line TEFL Certification
Preparation of skills and techniques required for successful language teaching at the leisure of your own schedule and computer. This 20-units course requires approx. 80-100 hours of attention. TEFL course may be added for only USD 295!

Qualifications:
- Be competent and fluent with your native language, English is most requested from local families, but other languages can be arranged too (knowledge of host country's language helpful but NOT required.)
- Have earned a high school diploma or certificate
- Enjoy tutoring/teaching children or adults
- Good lesson planning and organization skills
- Be a non-smoker, or willing not to smoke in the host family's home
- Flexibility to embrace foreign cultures and living abroad
- Responsible and dedicated to full-term of commitment
- Criminal background check may be required by some positions

Minimum Education: High School

Salary / Pay: Private Room in Host Family plus 3 meals a day.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Russia Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Phone Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Resume

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Cultural Embrace's Mission Statement: Our mission is to encourage people to recognize and appreciate cultural diversity. We believe that visiting a place firsthand allows one to truly experience the authenticity of a culture and develop his/her own impressions. Our goals are to provide quality service and opportunities for people to explore their world and enlighten their eyes, mind and heart. Traveling is a reciprocated flow of communication and interaction between people...the more you seek, the more you learn. "Discover the Similarities - Share the Differences"