Russian Log / 030
What I did today:
- review (vocab, grammar, sentences)
- playing video games in Russian
I've hit the 30 days mark! :D
I used this day to relax a bit and only did my Anki reviews and played some video games in Russian (I also made sentence cards).
30 days summary:
I started my journey by learning the russian script and worked through the very detailed chapter of my textbook about the cyrillic alphabet. Plus, I've tried to read simple but also native level texts with the help of LWT right from the start. At this time being, I saved nearly 2000 words in LWT.
Texts like news articles or novels are far above my level at the moment, of course, but varying the level of difficulty is important in order to expand my knowledge and to get used to the level I want to achieve some day.
I finished 3 chapters of my textbook so far. At first, I wrote vocab and grammar points quite detailed into my notebook. Now, I only pick out the example sentences plus a short grammar explanation (instead of whole tables) and write them down. I would like to reach a faster pace in order to finish the textbook as soon as possible. That's why I reduced my notes a bit. All these declension tables are only a reference anyway.
It was difficult to find good resources (especially audio), but I worked with what I've found. Like news articles, graded readers/ebooks, audio books, video games, podcasts, YouTube videos, ...
I mostly listened passively to the audio from my textbook (dialogues), videos, podcasts, audio books and music. Sometimes, I was able to understand a few words and short phrases I knew from my textbook.
I began to work with video games and sentence picking only a few days ago, but I instantly felt some improvement. By only concentrating on sentences within my reach (relatively short and comprehensible) instead of looking up every word in every sentence I had the feeling, that new words stick better. It makes sense to me, that I remember words from single, comprehensible sentences much better than words from several difficult sentences, where many words are unknown. Maybe I will use this sentence picking strategy for my regular reading, too (maybe even without adding the sentences to Anki). I will see, if this works better.
And one more thing: From now on I will not focus on Russian alone. I miss Japanese SO MUCH! T^T Also, writing one blog post a day takes precious time, which could be used for language learning. ;) That's why I will not write about my progress as regularly as in the last 30 days.
But I will post whenever I made interesting or motivational experiences.
30 days summary:
I started my journey by learning the russian script and worked through the very detailed chapter of my textbook about the cyrillic alphabet. Plus, I've tried to read simple but also native level texts with the help of LWT right from the start. At this time being, I saved nearly 2000 words in LWT.
Texts like news articles or novels are far above my level at the moment, of course, but varying the level of difficulty is important in order to expand my knowledge and to get used to the level I want to achieve some day.
I finished 3 chapters of my textbook so far. At first, I wrote vocab and grammar points quite detailed into my notebook. Now, I only pick out the example sentences plus a short grammar explanation (instead of whole tables) and write them down. I would like to reach a faster pace in order to finish the textbook as soon as possible. That's why I reduced my notes a bit. All these declension tables are only a reference anyway.
It was difficult to find good resources (especially audio), but I worked with what I've found. Like news articles, graded readers/ebooks, audio books, video games, podcasts, YouTube videos, ...
I mostly listened passively to the audio from my textbook (dialogues), videos, podcasts, audio books and music. Sometimes, I was able to understand a few words and short phrases I knew from my textbook.
I began to work with video games and sentence picking only a few days ago, but I instantly felt some improvement. By only concentrating on sentences within my reach (relatively short and comprehensible) instead of looking up every word in every sentence I had the feeling, that new words stick better. It makes sense to me, that I remember words from single, comprehensible sentences much better than words from several difficult sentences, where many words are unknown. Maybe I will use this sentence picking strategy for my regular reading, too (maybe even without adding the sentences to Anki). I will see, if this works better.
And one more thing: From now on I will not focus on Russian alone. I miss Japanese SO MUCH! T^T Also, writing one blog post a day takes precious time, which could be used for language learning. ;) That's why I will not write about my progress as regularly as in the last 30 days.
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