Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

I haven't felt very motivated with my Russian studies this past two weeks. I wanted to increase the amount of time spent on passive and active immersion but it hasn't been happening. The last time I watched an episode of  кухня was on the 9th of January and I haven't done any passive immersion since the 8th. I'm not working at the moment which explains why I haven't been passively immersing. So that's not really concerning to me. As I've mentioned before I rarely watch shows or films in my free time so it's not necessarily enjoyable to me even if it's contributing to my Russian. I also haven't been doing so called 'intensive active immersion' either (reading along with a TV show and trying to understand every single sentence). I've been watching Comprehensible Russian videos but only in short bursts. I have been keeping up with my Anki deck and Glossika so that's a positive. However I'm aware that learning to recognise words

I signed up for Glossika a week ago and it's having some kind of effect on me. I'm not sure if this is actually contributing to my acquisition of Russian though. I guess I'll have to wait and see. At the moment I'm only using it read and listen to, then repeat, the provided phrases. I'm not writing or translating from English to Russian. I'm noticing some of these sentences popping into my head throughout the day. Which makes sense because I'm saying them out loud over and over. As I've mentioned before the Comprehensible Input / Mass Immersion / Refold method usually advocates to wait with output. One of the reasons is that the speaker might ingrain bad habits such as poor grammar or a bad pronunciation. With Glossika I'm repeating what I hope are grammatically correct sentences and as far as I can tell I'm now good enough at pronunciation from listening to hours and hours of native Russian. So at the very least I don't think I'm doing a

So far the amount of time I've been spending on Active Immersion has been proportionally quite low. I think this was somewhat compensated for by watching Comprehensible Input videos that are easy for me to grasp. Initially I wasn't employing the correct vocabulary strategy so I might not have been able to make the most of Active Immersion anyway. But for the past two months I've been working through an Anki deck (1000 most frequent words) in recognition mode only (I'm prompted with the Russian word and have to remember what it means in English). Since I'm nearing the half-way point I thought it would be a good idea to rebalance my various studying activities. I've found a great free website which hosts various TV shows with full native subtitles ( 3ears.com ) on which I've been watching the sitcom  кухня . I approach it as follows. First I watch a full episode in so called free-flow mode. I just watch it without reading the subtitles and do my best to follow