The Challenges of Learning Russian
RUSSIAN IS SO BEAUTIFULLY COMPLEX!
Welcome to week six of my language journal for 2019. I will continue to challenge myself just as I did in Week Five. I think these challenges really help me to retain the material more and allows for a better understanding. The mind is like a sponge, because, it absorbs much more than we are... Continue Reading →
I call this year, my "Plus One" year, because it is my "Goal Year" for reaching conversational fluency in Russian. I have completed four years of study already, which gives me a sturdy foundation to build upon. So this year, I am concentrating solely on developing my speaking and listening skills. My original intent was to... Continue Reading →
Welcome to week five of my language journal for 2019. This week I will keep my flexible schedule since it had proven in Week Four to be effect for me. This week if I find the material to be too easy, I will incorporate other studying just to make it more interesting for me. I somehow feel... Continue Reading →
Welcome to week four of my language journal for 2019. This week I will try out a flexible schedule and see if I am more productive than I was in Week Three. This is a key point to any endeavor you take on, which may require experimenting and tweaking your schedule. Granted things are constantly... Continue Reading →
Welcome to week three of my language journal for 2019. Wow, time is moving so fast I cannot believe I am starting week three, and here we are in February! My Week Two, went more soothly, since I only had to complete five modules. My goals were more realistic and it allowed me to concentrate on... Continue Reading →
Welcome to week two of my language journal for 2019. As I mentioned in my post for Week One, setting goals is very important. But it is equally important to set realistic goals, as my last week goals soon revealed to me that I tried to do too much. So make sure that the goals... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my language journal for 2019. Setting goals is very important to be successful in any endeavor, and this is also is true when learning a new language. This journal is where I will record my weekly goals as well as my progress of learning the Russian language. Up to this point, I have... Continue Reading →
Here are some of the most useful sites to start learning Russian. This is not a completed list as I am always finding more and will add them to the list. I will let the websites speak for themselves, you will either like them or not. I have found them very useful and frequent them... Continue Reading →
Let me begin with some basic facts... The Foreign Service Institute's (FSI) School of Language Studies has categorized Russian as a level 4 language. According to their 70 plus years of observation, it would take an average student with no prior knowledge of Russian, approximately 44 weeks or 1100 class hours to learn it. Looking... Continue Reading →
As part of my Russian Language studies, the instructor assigned six classic Russian movies to watch. These depict in a way, different eras in Russian History. These movies were, and probably still are, very popular as with many Soviet era movies. However, the last two movies Брат and Брат 2 were created after the fall... Continue Reading →
The Challenges of Learning Russian 