I have to come out.
In the last month my Russian study time was something similar to 0. This is because the side project I mentioned in the previous post.
But hey, I want to make it clear that it is not my classic "I got bored and changed study language" or "I got frustrated and changed study language". Russian is my real language love in this moment. I'm continuing listening Russian music and cooking some Russian dish now and then and I am just patiently waiting the end of my side project.
So, the side project. I have an Israeli colleague that made the fatal mistake to say that Hebrew is very easy and a lot of foreigners arriving to Israel can learn it to B2 in 3 months because it has a very small vocabulary. And I made the fatal mistake to say "challenge accepted".
Funny enough, he also speaks a bit of Russian
So I made some considerations.
- how much time do I have after work? 0
- but hey, I travel alone with the car to work and that gives me a 40-60 minutes of study per day.
- so I need something I can use in the car. what does exist for Hebrew? Answer: Pimsleur and HebrewPod101
- HebrewPod is too complicated to just start with it. So I choose Pimsleur. It has 3 levels.
I'm at the lesson 27. Pimsleur is boring as hell. I never arrived so far. I will finish it, it is a good exercise for my self discipline. other 63 lessons to go
I had a very funny misunderstanding this morning. A new word was introduced in this lesson: "to leave". Problem is that I understood "to live" until almost the very end of the lesson. No wonder I found the content of this lesson very weird
- I want to live with you!
- I don't want to live. I want to stay.
- But I want to live!
- Then you live alone. I don't want to live!
- I want to live with you. Are you alone?
- No, I'm with my husband.
- In that case I go away.
- Why?
- Because I want to live!
LOL.
Anyway. Despite how boring Pimsleur actually is, I'm appreciating it much more than in the past, at the point that I don't exclude to go through the whole Pimsleur Russian and Michel Thomas Russian before RussianPod101 to have a headstart of the language. I see that I definitely abandoned my obsessive research to the perfect language method (spoiler alert: it doesn't exist).