22 Guineans have become students of the Mining University
The main and most dynamically developing branch of industry in the Republic of Guinea (a West African state) is mining. That is why young people from Guinea have come to get education at the Ural Mining University.
Before they start acquiring specialities, young people will be attending preparatory courses in the Russian language for a year. The study of the Russian alphabet will be their first step on the road to a future mining engineer. Their native language is French, and now they will have to master Russian as a foreign language.
To be eligible for free education in Russia, the guests from the African country had to withstand a severe competition. 100 most talented representatives of the Guinean youth were selected out of four thousand applicants. All of them will study at the best Russian universities, and 22 of them will be students of the Ural State Mining University.
The Department of Foreign Languages has been preparing for the arrival of Guineans for a long time. Its teachers must help young people overcome the language barrier, because foreign students will get their further education at the mining departments of the university in ordinary Russian groups. Irina Trushkina, a teacher of French, is very pleased with the success of her new students in studying the Russian language.
As the Guineans admitted, Ural students and passers-by in the street meet them very friendly though with some surprise. But the real problem for the Africans is Russian frosts which, by the way, spare foreign guests. And the weather is quite warm for December, but young people have their own opinion.
While the newly arrived miners are learning the Russian language, Russian students have a unique opportunity in practice to master French and English without leaving the Urals. In addition, the training of foreign students in the Urals will contribute to the promotion of mutually beneficial relations between Russia and the Republic of Guinea, as well as the decline in social confrontations and the growth in prosperity of both countries.
