I had the incredible opportunity to go to Ukraine for a two-week language immersion program through the Air Force. Basically the opportunity fell into my lap so I jumped at the chance to go. Fortunately my squadron leadership was on board with me leaving for two weeks so I went and due to popular demand I'm writing a brief report on my experience there.
The program was through LEAP in connection with NovaMova International Language School in Kyiv. The school is for anyone that wants to study Russian in country, but the US Gov't has a contract to send a lot of it's personnel to NovaMova. Therefore, a lot of military officers from the Defense Language Institute go to NovaMova as a "top off" for their time at the DLI in order to practice what they've learned. Also all of the US Service Academies send cadets to NovaMova for a semester at a time to study Russian. Overall I was pretty impressed with the school and the flexibility of the curriculum. I'm conversationally fluent in Russian but there is very little practice here in the US. Going abroad for even a short time period allowed me the perfect opportunity to practice conversing in Russian with native speakers.
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