The “Professional English for Alumni” course by Virtual Educator Jye Smallwood is starting next week. Meet Jye and learn more details about him, his career and his amazing course with us! Our team has recently run a survey “Insights on Job Success”! In this episode you will learn what our alumni and teachers think about job hunting, career advancement, and interview strategies. Tune in and you will learn more! Our keynote speaker: Jye Smallwood, currently working on his PhD in the Department of ...
Sep 22, 2023•38 min•Ep. 9
Join us in celebrating the 10th anniversary of our alumni community by rediscovering magic of the iconic Ufa Access Program and their summer camps. Known for the vibrant contributions to multicultural communication, our speakers featured the original ideas on learning English language via camping. Tune in to this bonus episode and immerse yourself in the timeless history that have defined original Access camping in Russia. Keynote speaker: Vyacheslav D Shvaiko, PhD in Linguistics, Department of ...
Sep 18, 2023•15 min•Ep. 3
Today we share with you something extraordinary for our community. Ideas about how to start and keep an immersion language camp. It is special for our Access alumni because we originally came from the camp community and this episode is full of ideas how to think as a camp counselor, what is so important we need to forsee before planning a camp. And our special guest generously shared with us some effective ideas about camping in English language learning. More importantly, we came up to some fas...
Sep 15, 2023•27 min•Ep. 2
Discover our Bonus serious of Campers2Campers Talks that provides an in-depth look into the world of cross-cultural communication and language lerning via summer camping experience. Your time with C2C is a chance to experience a new and diverse English leanining environment where you will be able to get first-hand answers that our camp counselors and alumni met at multicultural camps over the recent years. We are also very grateful for Lara Ravitch, our friend and Virtual English Lanuage Special...
Sep 12, 2023•22 min•Ep. 1
Join us for the incredible Nurturing Episode if you are curious about how we meet and run our Virtual English Classes. Particularly, if you are a student, an alum/na or a teacher. Since we are almost back to school, this episode is exceptional because it is more like a multicultural seminar where we gathered not one guest but all-star speakers, our wonderful professors from Michigan State University and our Access alumni team from all over Russia. Let us know what you think and stay tuned!!! We ...
Aug 29, 2023•50 min•Ep. 8
Do you have friends or colleagues who are interested in studying in Russia or in the US as an exchange student? If the answer is positive, we are happy to highlight the most exciting stories from our special guests Mikayla and Vlad who shared their ideas about challenges and pecularities on their first hand experience of global education in the multicultural environment. Let's join our amazing team and check up the first summer episode! This episode was created by Elina, Kristina, Aisha, Victori...
Jul 26, 2023•31 min•Ep. 7
Will language teachers become extinct in this new era of teaching technology? Let's fast forward to the future and find out how AI, apps, and other innovative tools can be used by teachers and learners. We interview experienced English teachers who generously share their classroom-tested tips and tricks. Special guest appearance by Professor ChatGPT! This episode was created by Anna, Sasha, Anastasia, Vicky, Elena, and Egor.
May 07, 2023•20 min•Ep. 6
We hope you're hungry for this episode about food! We begin with delicious statistics from a survey of the Access community, then we speak with guests about differences between food and food habits in Russia and the U.S.A. This episode was created by Elina, Kristina, Aisha, Victoria, Anna, Natalya, Ainaz, Ekaterina, with special guests: Erik and Jacob.
Apr 07, 2023•33 min•Ep. 5
This episode, "Pop Culture: From Guilty Pleasure to Learner's Treasure," is about the important role of pop culture in learning English. As always, we offer tips, recommendations, amazing guests, and other "Easter Egg" treasures! This episode was created by Anna F., Sasha, Alex, Vicky M., Elena, Egor, and Vadim, with help from Aisha and Victoria S.
Mar 27, 2023•22 min•Ep. 4
In this episode of Re-Access Podcast, we delve into daily life. Commuting, paying for things, deliveries - How are we different and how are we alike? This episode was created by Elina, Kristina, Aisha, Victoria, Natalya, Ainaz, Ekaterina, with special guests: Dan and Tessa
Feb 25, 2023•22 min•Ep. 3
What similarities and differences are there between the way that Russians and Americans celebrate holidays such as Christmas and New Years? Join us and find out! The creative team for today’s episode was Anastasia, Aisha, Alexander, Anna, Azalia, Daiana, Daria, Ekaterina, Elizaveta, Elena, Kamilla, Viktoriia, Victoriia, Jenni, and Vladislav.
Dec 26, 2022•28 min•Ep. 2
Join our community in this inaugural episode which offers some personal accounts of how young Russian people began studying English, and their challenges along the way. What kept them going, even when it was difficult? Do their stories remind you of your own? Also, you'll get a recommendation for a great short story, and hear an amazing joke-of-the-day! The creative team for today’s episode was Anna, Alexander, Alexandra, Artyom, Egor, Katerina, Svetlana, Tatiana, and Vadim. Connect with us at h...
Dec 18, 2022•19 min•Ep. 1
