>Australian
>Self teaching Russian for the past 2 years (with the help of fluent speakers)
>hating my life in Australia
>considering studying the Russian language in Moscow for 4 - 8 weeks during 2017
I've found a school I'm interested in, but I thought I'd get some advice from others first.
Has anybody studied in Moscow?
Is it worth it?
Moscow is by far the most expensive city in Russia
You get the least amount of foreigner credit
If the money doesn't matter and it's only 8 weeks it doesn't really matter
If you really just want to learn 'russian' than Ukraine or Georgia are a lot easier to deal with for visas and people like westerners more
>>1176473
>georgia to learn russian
"no"
go to kyrgyzstan or kazakhstan op. ukraine is okay but go to the south or east.
>>1176445
yes op, go. don't listen to the other posters, why would you go outside of russia to learn russian? go to moscow by all means, you will find it of most interest
>>1176445
Moscow is too expensive. Go to a school in another part of Russia and I don't mean Saint Petersburg.
Petrozavodsk has a lot of Russian schools.
Going into Russia is a visa headache. Go to Odessa in "Ukraine" if you don't care about going to Russia in particular and just want to learn Russian.
>>1176445
If you want somewhere relatively cheap and with no visa, try Latvia. Russian is the second language, half the people in Riga speak it daily, it's a Schengen zone country w/ no visa for 90 days for Australians and pretty cheap.
>>1176445
Would not take Moscow, but Simferopol, Rostov on the Don, Sochi etc.
However if you want to feel the mainstream Russian brand, then Moscow and Saint Petersburg are a must.