конспект: игонь. у меня есть утка. пингвины с шариками. фабрика.
overallI put in plenty of hours and made progress on paper, but the "robo" programs like memrise and duolingo are starting to burn me out a bit.
memrise
For one thing, there seems to be something wrong with the "10,000 most common russian words" course on memrise. I've only done 668 words, but here is a sampling:
завод, экономический, политический, работий, общество, современный, комитет, человекический, условый, энергия
So this list must be "the 10,000 most common words found in government documents".
assimilI did lesson 14 in the active wave. Was pleasantly surprised to get two-thirds of the sentences error free despite doing it "cold" without review. So no doubt there will be a third wave in my future but for now I'm happy with my progress on the course.
интерныI've started reading the transcript before watching each episode and I've seen my listening comprehension surge from about 1% to about 2.5%. So I guess I'm going to be looping on the first ten episodes for a while.
fun factI notice that, this week being the first week I started to feel some burnout, this was also the first week I started thinking about the greener pastures of other languages. I'm determined not to start another language until Russian is at a decent level (far above the current). But just to play with fire and see what's popular on this forum I searched on each language and wrote down the count of references. Here is the unscientific survey:
2526 french
2021 spanish
1598 german
975 russian
887 italian
540 japanese
453 swedish
402 portuguese
392 mandarin
250 irish
242 esperanto
215 arabic
166 finnish
143 thai
100 tagalog
43 persian
: Assimil Passive
: Assimil Active
: High Frequency Words (5000)
: Glossika GSR 1
: Duolingo
: Hours 2015
: 10000 pages
: 10000 minutes