  This paper presents a new Massive Open Online Course on Natural Language
Processing, targeted at non-English speaking students. The course lasts 12
weeks; every week consists of lectures, practical sessions, and quiz
assignments. Three weeks out of 12 are followed by Kaggle-style coding
assignments.
  Our course intends to serve multiple purposes: (i) familiarize students with
the core concepts and methods in NLP, such as language modeling or word or
sentence representations, (ii) show that recent advances, including pre-trained
Transformer-based models, are built upon these concepts; (iii) introduce
architectures for most demanded real-life applications, (iv) develop practical
skills to process texts in multiple languages. The course was prepared and
recorded during 2020, launched by the end of the year, and in early 2021 has
received positive feedback.
