Russian Log / 014

What I did today:

• listening & reading (graded reader story, introductory text and dialogue, interesting article)
• vocab / grammar
• finished lesson 1 of my textbook

I've read the introductory text and the dialogues again and understand most of it now. Only the direction words (like left, right, near, far, ...) are problematic because I still mix them up.

I wrote new vocab and grammar points into my notebook. Tomorrow, I will review the vocab before I start with the exercises at the end of lesson 1. I'm not a fan of exercises like these, but I would like to check my knowledge. 

While studying Japanese I learned one important thing: When it comes to basics, don't move on too fast. I've read some light novels and other stuff in Japanese (extensive reading), but even though I'm quite happy with my progress I regret the gaps in my basic knowledge. I always feel that I missed something.

That's why I think I should take as much from this textbook as I can.

There were also some explanations about important expressions at the end of lesson 1, e.g. which greeting is formal and which is informal, which expressions are used when answering the phone, ... I really like this section because it gives you an more in-depth understanding of these expressions.

Summary of week 2:

I'm learning Russian for 2 weeks now!

I started and finished the first lesson of my textbook. That's another small milestone!

I tried to listen and read as much as possible and read all kinds of texts (some texts from graded readers, news articles and the dialogues from my textbook).

I've found an very easy graded reader with audio, which is exactly what I was looking for. But finding texts with audio in Russian is quite difficult. If you have any recommendations, where I can find audio with matching text (be it children stories, news, ...), please let me know!

I used Twitter for my reading practice and for finding interesting articles. I've read some of these. They were very difficult, but there are many words I know from other languages, so it's not that demotivating.

For most of my reading I use LWT. After these 2 weeks I saved over 800 words - I'm quite proud! Another 300 are known words or words that are similar to words from other languages. I'm really surprised, that there are so many words I can guess.

Oh, and one last thing! I came across this extraordinarily long word: достопримечательность (sight)! Impressive! The day I can pronounce this word correctly, I will know that I'm fluent in Russian. XD