Postby Dylan95 » Thu May 16, 2019 6:47 am
I've been studying Ukrainian since September in a classroom situation. My Ukrainian is still pretty bad. It's not that it's difficult or anything. Already speaking Russian makes learning Ukrainian a bit of a breeze. But I don't have a huge amount of motivation to learn it and my other classes are the priority, so most of my study thus far has been cramming before exams. I'd say, I'm definitely in the B range passively for Ukrainian, but my active skills are either a high A2 or a low B1. I probably won't continue studying it in a classroom environment at this point. I think at this point, I'm either going to drop it or just focus on learning vocabulary little by little. I have no desire to really be able to speak Ukrainian. I'd just like to be able to read newspaper articles a little more comfortably. I can already, but that definitely requires a dictionary if I want to understand every detail (which I do).
I haven't studied Russian at all since leaving Russia really. I've noticed that my Russian is definitely worse. I keep on forgetting all kinds of random words, but recognize them immediately upon hearing or seeing them. I think I'm a solid C1 at this point. My main problem is that I only use Russian with friends at this point, so my Russian for the past year has basically been solid bar talk. Luckily, I'm going back for the summer in a few weeks. That will force me to have more formal interactions.
I would like to begin studying Turkish in a formal classroom environment next fall. I've wanted to learn Turkish for a while, and I dabbled in it a while back.
My language goals for this summer are:
- improve Russian (widen vocabulary, improve my ability to express myself eloquently in professional contexts)
- not let my ukrainian vanish into oblivion (as has more or less been the case with French, Italian, and Latin)
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Dylan95 on Sun May 26, 2019 3:23 am, edited 1 time in total.
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