Re: Radioclare's 2021 log (Russian, Croatian)
Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 11:09 pm
5 May
Bit of a headache today and it's also really cold, so I don't feel like I've had the most productive of evenings. Not sure why but my motivation to do useful things seems to decrease when I am cold
Russian
That said, I did make a supreme effort and open Memrise tonight. On the one hand, I do hate SRS. On the other hand, it has worked for me with Croatian and I can't think of a more effective way to learn to Russian vocabulary. Which is something I definitely need to do. So I opened it this evening and my outstanding Russian reviews were even worse than when I posted the screenshot before (> 5 000, which is ridiculous, because I clearly don't know 5 000 different words in Russian!). I told myself I'd spend 10 minutes clearing them and in the end I managed to spend 19, which got my total down to 4 933. I'm going to try posting the number of outstanding reviews in my log every day in the hope it motivates me to keep working on it.
Otherwise, I read another chapter of Agatha Christie and spent some time looking up new words from my B1.1 textbook. I did an exercise yesterday where I had to match verbs to related nouns. That was pretty easy but the problem with these sorts of exercises is that it's perfectly possible to deduce that разлука is a noun related to the verbs разлучать/разлучить without actually knowing what any of those words mean. So that was the kind of thing I wanted to look up today.
Croatian
I'm getting towards the end of 'Drugo ime ljubavi', the series I've been watching since April 2020. There are less than 10 episodes to go now and it is so exciting! Of all the telenovelas I've watched in Croatian, this is definitely the one that is most dramatic and has the best plot. Far too complicated to explain it all, but if you want to hear what angry Croatian sounds like, this is a good clip from the episode I watched today
Total - Russian: 51 mins, Croatian: 45 mins
Outstanding Memrise reviews - Russian: 4,933, Croatian: 2,820
Bit of a headache today and it's also really cold, so I don't feel like I've had the most productive of evenings. Not sure why but my motivation to do useful things seems to decrease when I am cold
Russian
That said, I did make a supreme effort and open Memrise tonight. On the one hand, I do hate SRS. On the other hand, it has worked for me with Croatian and I can't think of a more effective way to learn to Russian vocabulary. Which is something I definitely need to do. So I opened it this evening and my outstanding Russian reviews were even worse than when I posted the screenshot before (> 5 000, which is ridiculous, because I clearly don't know 5 000 different words in Russian!). I told myself I'd spend 10 minutes clearing them and in the end I managed to spend 19, which got my total down to 4 933. I'm going to try posting the number of outstanding reviews in my log every day in the hope it motivates me to keep working on it.
Otherwise, I read another chapter of Agatha Christie and spent some time looking up new words from my B1.1 textbook. I did an exercise yesterday where I had to match verbs to related nouns. That was pretty easy but the problem with these sorts of exercises is that it's perfectly possible to deduce that разлука is a noun related to the verbs разлучать/разлучить without actually knowing what any of those words mean. So that was the kind of thing I wanted to look up today.
Croatian
I'm getting towards the end of 'Drugo ime ljubavi', the series I've been watching since April 2020. There are less than 10 episodes to go now and it is so exciting! Of all the telenovelas I've watched in Croatian, this is definitely the one that is most dramatic and has the best plot. Far too complicated to explain it all, but if you want to hear what angry Croatian sounds like, this is a good clip from the episode I watched today
Total - Russian: 51 mins, Croatian: 45 mins
Outstanding Memrise reviews - Russian: 4,933, Croatian: 2,820