Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

  According to Speakly I've learned another 100 words (or lemmas) between the 7th of March to the 19th of March. That's 7.69 lemmas per day. As I wrote before I seem to be 'learning' (recognising, not producing) words faster.  I won't go into further detail today. You can read previous posts where I discuss whether this pace will be sustained and what it really means. Short answer: While it should get easier to learn vocabulary over time, the speed at which I do so will most likely ebb and flow. Milestone: 1300 words in Speakly Milestone: 1200 words in Speakly .  Do you use Speakly? What do you think of it?

  According to Speakly I've learned another 119 words (or lemmas) between January the 19th and March the 6th. Over 47 days that comes to 2.53 new words per day. As predicted in my last Speakly post I seem to be learning words faster  Milestone: 1200 words in Speakly . I don't know if that is something that will sustain, some of the words I already knew before, but I wonder if it gets easier to learn vocabulary the more words you already know. There are 2681 words left to learn in Speakly. At 2.53 words per day it will take = 1,059.68 days to finish 1,059.68 / 365 = 2.9 years. From the previous post: If I were to continue at the current rate it would take almost 6 years to learn all 4000 words in the Speakly app. 2,800 / 1.34 = 2,089 days 2,089 / 365 = 5.72 years I think I will progress faster than that though. I've found that int the past couple of weeks I'm able to use the app for longer periods of time compared to when I first started. Sometimes I can be using Speakly

January and February were very busy for me due to having to move house. So I was only able to do the absolute minimum amount of studying, essentially only able to use the Speakly app for a couple of minutes day. It will be interesting to see how this 'break' will affect my speaking ability when I try that again. February 2024 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 2:41 hours Active watching or listening: 0:00 minutes Vocabulary and Sentences: 0:00 minutes Reading with Audio: 0:00 hours Reading with no Audio: 0:00 hours Active Study: 0:00 hours Tutor Lessons (Conversation Practice): 0:00 hours Free Conversation Practice: 0:00 minutes Total: 2:41 hours Daily Average: 0:05 hours January 2024 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 9:00 hours Active watching or listening: 0:16 minutes Vocabulary and Sentences: 0:11 minutes Reading with Audio: 0:40 hours Reading with no Audio: 0:00 hours Active Study: 07:27 hours Tutor Lessons (Conversation Practice): 00:30 hours Free Convers

According to Speakly I've learned another 200 words (or lemmas) since August 23rd. Over 149 days that comes to 1.34 new words per day. Of course I'm sure that I've picked up more vocabulary through my other activities. I know there are different levels to knowing a word and the aim is for fully activated vocabulary that can be used in conversation. But it's nice to tick off another milestone.  If I were to continue at the current rate it would take almost 6 years to learn all 4000 words in the Speakly app. 2800 / 1.34 = 2089 days 2089 / 365 = 5.72 years I think I will progress faster than that though. I've found that int the past couple of weeks I'm able to use the app for longer periods of time compared to when I first started. Sometimes I can be using Speakly for 25 minutes before I get bored or tired. And I more often I'm being introduced to words that I already know due to my other learning activities. I expect this to happen more frequently as I progres

  It was a fairly good month, I spent a lot of time on what I call Active Study which for me consists of using the Speakly App, writing out its dialogues, studying Russian Accelerator and reading LingQ.  That last one could arguably be counted as simply Reading (with or without audio) but I usually count it as Active Studying because most of the time I'm doing it intensively (looking up words, trying to notice grammar). Other times I read LingQ without too many lookups. In those cases I count it as Reading. At the moment most of my Reading With Audio is from using Glossika and Reading With No Audio is mostly Olly Richard's 101 Conversations in Simple Russian. There was some Free Conversation Practice (Speaking or messaging with Russian speakers) which is hard to count so I put 30 minutes. I aim to spend more time on this real world usage of language and it's going to be hard to measure that activity accurately. I'm leaning towards not counting it as part of my statistic

Nothing much to say about November. I travelled to a country where there is supposedly a big population of Russian speakers but I hardly heard any Russian while I was there which was disappointing. I'm feeling very motivated at the moment but haven't found the time to dedicate as much time as I normally do. November 2023 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 7:03 hours Active watching or listening: 0:00 minutes Vocabulary and Sentences: 0:00 minutes Reading with Audio: 4:31 hours Reading with no Audio: 0:27 hours Active Study: 4:30 hours Tutor Lessons (Conversation Practice): 06:00 hours Free Conversation Practice: 0:00 minutes Total: 22:32 hours Daily Average: 0:45 hours October 2023 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 17:56 hours Active watching or listening: 0:25 minutes Vocabulary and Sentences: 0:23 minutes Reading with Audio: 5:53 hours Reading with no Audio: 1:15 hours Active Study: 6:21 hours Tutor Lessons (Conversation Practice): 10:00 hours Free Conversati