Re: Lilly's log - French, Russian, Spanish and Italian
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 10:34 am
Russian
I'm now 86% into the book and if I continue at my current speed I might just finish the book in 3 days! That's pretty cool, since I wasn't really planning on finishing it before the end of the month. I guess I'm really getting into the story now. I was planning to finish my first 500 pages before the next 6WC to get to a point where I can really push the hours on reading and I think I've reached that goal already. After all, I can already average at 4 hours a day and that's pretty decent already. Basically I'm all set for that next big push. Incidentally I've also just reached 200h of reading!
Another little success: Yesterday I was looking about the Russian internet for something and to my surprise I actually understood most of what I was reading there without a dictionary. Seems like my reading comprehension is starting to become functional! It's still a bit of a strain to read cyrillic and I tend to avoid trying to decipher it when I don't need to, but after a few minutes I was skipping around the websites quite fluently, reading a sentence here or there without even intending to read them. It's definitely becoming more natural now!
As you might have noticed, I'm pretty much focusing on Russian these days, because I feel like I'm reaching a breakthrough point. So, this was supposed to be my Russian year, but since my Russian progressed more slowly than I had hoped, I actually did more Spanish and French than intended and even added some Italian. Basically my health objected to pushing my limits for proper study. More than 2h of any intensive Russian activity and my health would simply tank. Not good. Cutting back was definitely necessary. Now with only ~15% new word forms per page and already 4000+ words in the pocket it's less of a strain though and I can push it again. I wonder, might Russian still become my most studied language this year? If I really manage to push through another 400h of reading in the next few months, it might just happen! Whatever happens it will probably still be closely followed by Spanish.
Russian hours: 4.66h
Italian
One episode of Star Trek TNG in Italian.
Italian hours: 0.75h
I'm now 86% into the book and if I continue at my current speed I might just finish the book in 3 days! That's pretty cool, since I wasn't really planning on finishing it before the end of the month. I guess I'm really getting into the story now. I was planning to finish my first 500 pages before the next 6WC to get to a point where I can really push the hours on reading and I think I've reached that goal already. After all, I can already average at 4 hours a day and that's pretty decent already. Basically I'm all set for that next big push. Incidentally I've also just reached 200h of reading!
Another little success: Yesterday I was looking about the Russian internet for something and to my surprise I actually understood most of what I was reading there without a dictionary. Seems like my reading comprehension is starting to become functional! It's still a bit of a strain to read cyrillic and I tend to avoid trying to decipher it when I don't need to, but after a few minutes I was skipping around the websites quite fluently, reading a sentence here or there without even intending to read them. It's definitely becoming more natural now!
As you might have noticed, I'm pretty much focusing on Russian these days, because I feel like I'm reaching a breakthrough point. So, this was supposed to be my Russian year, but since my Russian progressed more slowly than I had hoped, I actually did more Spanish and French than intended and even added some Italian. Basically my health objected to pushing my limits for proper study. More than 2h of any intensive Russian activity and my health would simply tank. Not good. Cutting back was definitely necessary. Now with only ~15% new word forms per page and already 4000+ words in the pocket it's less of a strain though and I can push it again. I wonder, might Russian still become my most studied language this year? If I really manage to push through another 400h of reading in the next few months, it might just happen! Whatever happens it will probably still be closely followed by Spanish.
Russian hours: 4.66h
Italian
One episode of Star Trek TNG in Italian.
Italian hours: 0.75h