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The Russian community in Ireland and Cork

Ireland has a big history of emigration and immigration into other countries and today it welcomes many different nationalities and people into its borders today. Many of these people are Russian or Russian speakers from Latvia and Lithuania for example.

Cork in particular has a big Russian population and today, is a big addition to the local community. The Russian school of Cork has been based there for 12 years now and is a centre allowing for Russian speakers from all around to come together and be able to celebrate their roots and get to speak their native language with others.

For many, such as young children born in Ireland or those who have recently moved here, it allows people to learn and speak the language and to stay connected to their origins or the origins of their parents and to meet others from a similar cultural background. Something that can make the transition of moving to a new country much easier and pleasant.

There are over 80,000 Russian speakers in Ireland and they and many other immigrants help to make Ireland more diverse and places such as the Russian school of Cork will continue helping make Ireland easier for immigrants to call the place home.

The practicality of learning Russian

Due to the physical size of Russia and its population, as well as the addition of other Russian speaking countries and populations, learning the language will open up many opportunities and choices for anyone that learns it.

It will provide career and business opportunities, as many companies in many countries around the world, interact with Russian speaking companies and customers and they need Russian speaking workers to make this happen. You don’t necessarily need to move to a Russian speaking country to use it for work and knowing a second language often makes you more competitive in the world of work.

Knowing Russian will mean that travelling to certain places of the world is much more accessible as well as less stressful and who knows, you may fall in love with Estonia, Latvia, Russia or elsewhere where Russian is a major language.

Knowing the language will make it much more possible to relocate and live there as you will be able to deal with the everyday process of living somewhere new and being able to speak the language will mean that you can actually talk to locals and integrate into the society. An important process to help make a place feel like home.

Why getting a tutor can help a lot to learn Russian

There are lots of resources out there today to help anyone interested in learning something new and with hard work and plenty of online resources people can learn languages by themselves and Russian is no exception. However, it can be a very big struggle learning by yourself. It's hard to stay disciplined and motivated to continually work on learning a language and keeping up the momentum is key to making good progress.

At times, learners can also come across a topic or set of rules that they just can’t get that head around and there are times that people are making mistakes and continuously making mistakes because they don’t have anyone to correct them about it. The same can be said about questions. If there is something that you can’t understand or are unsure about, it can be very difficult to find a clear answer when working on it by yourself.

Having a tutor with you through the learning process will mean that any complicated concepts can be explained when you come across them and any questions can be asked in a timely manner as well so that you don’t just forget or dismiss the things that you didn’t understand the first time.

Your tutors will also be able to provide advice and clarification on things such as grammar, sentence structure, meaning of words and more while also providing examples so that you can easily learn and understand whatever topic you are doing and to help you make real progress.