I've Stopped Using The Fluent Forever Pronunciation Trainer

On the 23rd of September I started using the Anki Deck: Fluent Forever Pronunciation Trainer and I've spent almost exactly 9 hours studying with it. On average 10 minutes a day, occasionally up to 15 or 20 minutes if I missed a session.

Over the past couple of weeks the average time has come down to 3 to 10 minutes and I haven't noticed any new cards come up for a while. At this point the hardest cards are those that ask me to spell words after hearing them, but writing isn't something I'm particularly interested in right now. Generally I am pretty good with spelling what I hear but as an example I still struggle to hear and to place soft signs (Ь) if they appear the middle of words.

All in all I feel that there's little benefit to continuing considering my focus right now is on listening and understanding spoken Russian.

If someone had absolutely no experience with Russian then I would recommend this training deck. You'll learn the Russian script and your first words. However I started already having some Russian reading ability and it's hard to quantify to what extent I benefited from the time I spent on this training deck.

Yes I learned some new words and I learned how to pronounce specific words better but I'm not sure to what extent I picked up more generalised pronunciation awareness than I already possessed, or was gaining from listening to real conversations. 

It seemed I was getting better at recognising the difference between the pronunciation of minimal pairs in specific words but I have no idea if this transferred to my ability to discern them in real conversations. 

Have you used the Fluent Forever Pronunciation Trainer? What did you think of it?

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