The Belarusian language and literature department with its highly qualified staff has been teaching Belarusian to foreign students since 1995. Belarusian is taught through the medium of Russian and West-European languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Polish).

Tuition is conducted both in groups (formed on the native language basis), and individually. Belarusian language and literature courses are also available to the students.

Foreign students are enrolled and taught on the contract fee-paying basis, which guarantees educational services, dormitory accommodation (2 students sharing a room), test-books and access to MSLU library, reading rooms, laboratories, video halls, computer classrooms.

Course graduates are granted a certificate.

If attended in a group:

· one-month course – US $250

· five-month course – US $1000

· ten-month course – US $1500

· the fee for a one-month individual course –

US $500 a month (26 academic hours a week)

The minimal term of the Belarusian Language Course is 2 weeks

Students are offered various extracurricular activities: trips to museums, exhibitions, art galleries; visiting theatres, opera, cinema, discos, etc.; various tourist excursions (tours of the city and its surroundings, trips to numerous monuments and places of interest in Minsk and in other cities of the former USSR); sport activities (football, volleyball, basketball, shaping, table tennis, calisthenics, athletic gymnastics, taekwon-do, etc).

To become a student of the Department of Belarusian as a foreign language, one needs to obtain an entry visa to the Republic of Belarus via a local (or the nearest to your country) Belarusian embassy or a consulate after receiving an official invitation from the University. To receive such an invitation, one needs to send to the MSLU a letter of inquiry containing the following personal data:

- application (stating the purpose and term of study and the name of the establishment issuing a visa);

- a copy of your passport (name, surname, year and place of birth, passport number and its validity, address of permanent residence);

- a notarized copy of the high-school certificate (it should be translated into English or German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, or Belarusian languages). (The original with a notarized translation attached is to be submitted by the student upon his arrival in Belarus.)

Before the commencement of studies, the student is required to get medical insurance from one of the state insurance companies (insurance can be arranged through the dean’s office), and a medical check-up certificate at the Student’s Hospital. Medical services are rendered on the fee-paying basis. If the duration of the stay in Minsk is shorter than 3 months, a student can submit a medical check-up certificate with an obligatory X-ray check-up.

Tuition payment is made upon arrival and signing the contract with Minsk State Linguistic University.

All the travelling expenses are covered by the student.

Belarusian language is one of the most ancient East-European languages. It is spoken by more than 10 mln people both in Belarus and abroad. Belarusian is one of the two state languages in Belarus, Russian being the other one. It is the language of a great number of classical literary works by such writers as Mikola Husousky, Francisk Skaryna, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Maxim Bagdanovich, Uladzimir Karatkevich, Vasyl Bykau and others.

Lying in the centre of Europe Belarus has always had close contacts with Western Europe and Asia. Our achievements in the sphere of culture, education, science and economy are known world-wide. Book printing began to develop in Belarus in the early 16^th century, long before it did in other East-Slavonic countries.

Belarus is known for its ancient cities and towns, such as Polatsk, Vitsebsk, Navagradak, Mir and others, with their prominent historic, architectural and artistic monuments which are visited by numerous tourists. A number of world-known artists and writers – Adam Mitskevich, Fyodor Dastaevski, Mark Shagal, Kazimir Malevich, Mihail Glinka, Guillaume Apollinaire – have Belarusian roots.

Today Belarus is striving for active cooperation with various countries of the world.

Belarusians are a hospitable and amiable nation. Minsk is one of the cleanest and greenest cities of Europe. The current population of the capital is 2 million inhabitants, but a well-developed system of public transportation, which includes a subway, allows one to quickly get to any part of the city.

We await you in Minsk and hope that you will feel comfortable in our city.

Thank you for visiting our site.

We wish you all the best! Welcome to Minsk!

Our address:

Minsk State Linguistic University

The Department of Belarusian Language and Literature

21, Zakharau Str.

Minsk, 220034

Republic of Belarus

Tel.: (+375-17) 294-71-14

Fax: (+375-17) 294-75-04

E-mail: info@mslu.by