Re: Radioclare's 2021 log (Russian, Croatian)
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:02 pm
20 March
Glad it's the weekend. This has been a more stressful week than I expected.
Russian
I haven't been very diligent at reading in Russian this week, so I decided to make more of an effort this morning. I actually only intended to read for half an hour or so, but these Agatha Christie novels tend to start slow and then get progressively more exciting as you get closer to the end and the revelation about who the murderer is. This one was no different and so I became unexpectedly hooked on it and in total spent just under two hours reading in Russian, which was sufficient to finish the book. So 'Смерть приходит в конце' becomes the fifth book I've read in Russian this year, giving me an extra 283 pages towards my Russian reading challenge. I'm now up to 83 books for Russian reading in total, so I'm considering whether I need to start reading less in Russian. Seems like a strange problem to have, but my Croatian reading challenge and the listening part of my Russian challenge are significantly behind that.
Later in the afternoon I attempted my weekly 500 words of Russian writing. I got there in the end but it felt particularly slow today because this was my first attempt at typing Russian on my new laptop. It takes a while to get used to a new keyboard... I'm only just getting used to it in English... so I kept finding when I was typing Russian that I was hitting the wrong keys. Then I had a weird technical problem where my computer reinstalled a US keyboard despite the fact that I'd specifically uninstalled it the other day, so I probably wasted 15 minutes of my day trying to sort that out.
Total - Russian: 211 mins
Glad it's the weekend. This has been a more stressful week than I expected.
Russian
I haven't been very diligent at reading in Russian this week, so I decided to make more of an effort this morning. I actually only intended to read for half an hour or so, but these Agatha Christie novels tend to start slow and then get progressively more exciting as you get closer to the end and the revelation about who the murderer is. This one was no different and so I became unexpectedly hooked on it and in total spent just under two hours reading in Russian, which was sufficient to finish the book. So 'Смерть приходит в конце' becomes the fifth book I've read in Russian this year, giving me an extra 283 pages towards my Russian reading challenge. I'm now up to 83 books for Russian reading in total, so I'm considering whether I need to start reading less in Russian. Seems like a strange problem to have, but my Croatian reading challenge and the listening part of my Russian challenge are significantly behind that.
Later in the afternoon I attempted my weekly 500 words of Russian writing. I got there in the end but it felt particularly slow today because this was my first attempt at typing Russian on my new laptop. It takes a while to get used to a new keyboard... I'm only just getting used to it in English... so I kept finding when I was typing Russian that I was hitting the wrong keys. Then I had a weird technical problem where my computer reinstalled a US keyboard despite the fact that I'd specifically uninstalled it the other day, so I probably wasted 15 minutes of my day trying to sort that out.
Total - Russian: 211 mins