Program Reviews

After a three-month working experience at Liden & Denz, I couldn't be more satisfied with the whole experience! Before applying for the "Blogger - Editorial Assistant" internship, I already knew pretty well the school (I studied there for a month in October 2015) and I was already well impressed by its professional team. After having worked there, this feeling has been confirmed and, if possible, enhanced. The team is great and very responsive: from the application procedure to the bureaucratic matters (invitation letter, visa, registration), I've always been helped and supported by dynamic and responsive people! Once in St. Petersburg, the experience has been amazing: my tutor, Liza, has always explained me clearly my tasks and helped me but, at the same time, she has placed her trust in me, pushing me to do my best. The working tasks are always different and challenging: from translating the school website into Italian to taking pictures at school events, from writing blog posts to assisting in marketing research, I've never got bored!
If you are looking for a significative working experience abroad in a dynamic and positive team, Liden & Denz is the right choice!

Liden&Denz provides a great platform to learn and improve Russian language. The course is very well structured and includes all the aspects (reading, writing, speaking, listening).

The staff and teachers are very supportive and do their best to ensure each student can achieve his/ her goals. At the same time at Liden&Denz provided me an opportunity to meet some great people from different parts of the world and very different academic and professional backgrounds.

Also SPb is a great city to live in and overall I had a great experience. I would highly recommend Liden&Denz to anyone looking to improve his Russian language proficiency.

I spent the last three months in Saint Petersburg, where I worked as an intern at Liden & Denz. I absolved an internship as a "Blogger/Editorial Assistant" there. I very appreciate the fact, that I was able to gain work experience and to improve my Russian language skills at the same time. I am very thankful for this amazing time and for the experiences I made! Liden & Denz is really a high-quality and well-organized language institute, which I would recommend to everyone.

I chose Liden & Denz because it seemed to be a professional school for Russian language - and I was right. I really enjoyed the classes which were not only entertaining but also instructive. We did not only revise grammar rules and boring topics but discussed interesting issues in Russia and our home countries, daily news, popular Russian movies and so on. This way we improved our speaking skills and learned lot of new useful vocabulary. Teachers are great, there, and my classmates were so international which made it more interesting. Big plus: the school is located quite central and close to a metro station on the circle line!

I had the possibility to attend Russian courses in a class with 4-6 students and one-on-one business Russian courses this year in St. Petersburg over 2 months. It was a great experience! It could discover the Russian culture and made huge steps depending my Russian speaking skills. The school is (like I expected from a Swiss organization) very efficient organized and the teachers are highly educated. During my stay, I lived first with a host family, what was a very deep insight in common Russian Life. Then, after half of the time, I changed to a shared flat belonging to Liden & Denz. The appartment was very modern, clean and fully furnished. Liden & Denz is an international school, where you can meet a lot of students and interesting people from around the world. I had classmates from Europe, USA, Latin America and Asian countries, student ages were between 18 and 65. That was also a great thing to me, to get to know new characters and different sights and mentalities. Next to the educational activities, the school also offers a lot of cultural excursions in Petersburg. Of course, also goog organized.

Bottom Line: I spent a fantastic time in St. Petersburg at the Liden & Denz school. I can highly recommend it to everyone, who wants to learn Russian in Russia!

I spent 4 weeks at the Liden & Denz Intercultural Institute of Languages in Moscow. I really enjoyed my stay in the vivid capital of Russia and had a great time. Due to excellent teachers and small classes I could improve my Russian skills significantly. Also, I met a lot of new people who became very good friends. I can definitely recommend a stay at Liden & Denz. Not only will you improve your Russian skills, but also enjoy a great lifetime experience.

Overall I was very impressed with the program. Between the quality of the Russian courses and the challenging but inspiring environment afforded by Riga, I found it the perfect place to both study and work. The teachers of the courses are both professional and personal, and the materials given are thorough and helpful. I'm grateful I came here for my internship, as I have not only grown in my ability to use Russian, but also in my writing. I would recommend Liden & Denz to anyone. I hope to come back in the future.

I can't think of a better place to spend your summer. The teachers are very laid back, the facilities are immaculate, and the atmosphere is very positive. I studied in Saint Petersburg for two months as an video blogger intern and had a wonderful time. If you have the opportunity, I definitely recommend that you come! Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful places on earth, and you owe it to yourself to come learn Russian in the Venice of the North :)

I spent one month studying and interning at Liden and Denz Moscow. It was a wonderful experience.

The classes are small - no more than 10 people, and the teachers are dedicated and interesting. They are sorted by ability based on the European Languages Framework (A0, A1, A2 etc.) There are classes from complete beginners to advanced users. The students are all ages, from all walks of life and all over the world, which makes for a varied learning experience. The work is hard, there is homework and the classes are intense, but this is how your Russian language improves so much in a short space of time. After just four weeks of classes I felt my Russian had improved a lot.

The internship programme at the Moscow school is remotely supervised, which meant that we had a lot of freedom to work on things which interested us, but that we could always speak to our supervisor via messaging/email etc. The experience was really useful for me as it allowed you to be creative and think about all of the ways that you can share your experiences of Moscow.

The school offers trips to visit key Moscow sights but there is usually a charge for them. They were usually good value and a good way to meet fellow students. I would have liked to have even more opportunities to socialise with fellow students through the school though.