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Hi All,

I've been studying Russian since September 1st. I started off slow with Assimil, did about 30 lessons and got bored, then switched to lingq a few days ago.

My goals for the rest of 2015 are as follows:

Read: 100,000 words (Currently at 12413, consisting of re-reading lessons multiple times).
Know: 1,000 words (127)
Hours: 250 (13 -- lingq hours only)


If I can get that far ... and it is not a given ... I plan to supplement lingq with italki starting in January.

Thanks,

Xmmm

Words read: 16237
Words learned: 152
Hours (total): 53
Assimil: 34P

я лювлю песни вася обломов

я также лювлю книги виктора пелевина

: 34 / 100 Assimil Passive
: 152 / 1000 Words learned
: 16237 / 100000 Words read
: 53 / 250 Hours

I decided to buy Glossika (audio) last night. The reason is ... if I abandon Russian at A2, I would at least like to be A2 across the board. Also I zone out on long commutes just passively listening to dialogs.

у меня естб три собаке.




: 36 / 100 Assimil Passive Phase
: 223 / 1000 Words learned (2015 goal 1000)
: 17866 / 100000 Words read (2015 goal 100000)
: 55 / 250 Hours (2015 goal 250)
: 0 / 104 Glossika GSR 1

I've downloaded мы to my kindle. It looks so readable ... if only I knew more words, lol.

I've made a few mistakes with LingQ. Bored with the beginner 1 lessons (even if that is my real level), I imported Vasya Oblomov lyrics and a couple news articles. Now my LingQ review has some great words that I get right away ( гавно, бабке ) and some really difficult words that I really shouldn't be looking at yet, as very long Russian words still look all the same to me. I'm just promising myself I won't do it any more. I'll stick to whatever level I am and gradually I'll clear the overly difficult words out.





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: 38 / 100 Assimil Passive Phase
: 236 / 1000 Words learned (2015 goal 1000)
: 19213 / 100000 Words read (2015 goal 100000)
: 58 / 250 Hours (2015 goal 250)
: 2 / 104 Glossika GSR 1

I'm liking Glossika. эти сумки тяжелые.

I'm also liking ru.morpheem.com. Thanks, Arnaud!

I have no interest in learning French, but I tried out French a while back on lingvist.io because the app looked so great. And it is a great app. But they have a lack of interest in rolling out languages for English speakers any time soon.

So morpheem looks a less developed version of lingvist. But the key is flashcard sentences based on word frequency. I went all the way through French to the end on lingvist (4971 words) and was able to read Le Comte de Monte Cristo without a lot of difficulty as long as he wasn't on a boat giving commands to lower the jib and hoist the spritsail, etc.

Hoping I can do the same with morpheem and pick up useful words more quickly ...

: 41 / 100 Assimil Passive Phase
: 312 / 1000 Words learned (2015 goal 1000)
: 24301 / 100000 Words read (2015 goal 100000)
: 73 / 250 Hours (2015 goal 250)
: 5 / 104 Glossika GSR 1

A rough week. I was able to keep the hours up by doing Glossika in the car, but slipped on everything that required sitting down with a book or a website. Should be back on track next week.




: 45 / 100 Assimil Passive Phase
: 355 / 1000 Words learned (2015 goal 1000)
: 27295 / 100000 Words read (2015 goal 100000)
: 88 / 250 Hours (2015 goal 250)
: 10 / 104 Glossika GSR 1

Не волнуйся, I'm sure you'll be back on track in no time. Keep up the good work!

(I like your current profile pic of Solzhenitsyn - he's one of my favourite authors )

Xmmm wrote:I decided to buy Glossika (audio) last night. The reason is ... if I abandon Russian at A2, I would at least like to be A2 across the board. Also I zone out on long commutes just passively listening to dialogs.

у меня естб три собаке.




: 36 / 100 Assimil Passive Phase
: 223 / 1000 Words learned (2015 goal 1000)
: 17866 / 100000 Words read (2015 goal 100000)
: 55 / 250 Hours (2015 goal 250)
: 0 / 104 Glossika GSR 1

I've been using that exact resource as well, doing GSR once or twice daily. What do you think so far?

I've been using that exact resource as well, doing GSR once or twice daily. What do you think so far?

It seems well-made. And it seems useful. I don't know if repeating random sentences actually helps develop fluency, but it has to help with pronunciation and developing an ear for the language ... I would think.

How about you?

I think it's hard to tell early on. The sentences certainly get more and more complex eventually, and they seem to be organized to demonstrate moving parts of a language--but the courses are not customized to each language. There are a lot of different Russian sentences that collapse to да, for example. Doesn't seem that efficient, but overall it's super-duper-mega-hyper-efficient compared to more casual course materials (e.g., <insertlanguagename>pod.com podcasts that are 10 seconds of dialogue and 15 minutes of chatting). Still seems fairly well thought out from what I can tell so far.