Although I felt like I was getting back into Russian properly this month it seems the stats don't bear this out. My daily average was the exact same and the type of activities I did were reduced.
My passive listening consisted of listening to D&D streams and Speakly stories. I feel like listening to the Speakly stories (even if passively), is the most beneficial for me at this point because I'm also spending my active study time on them. However the streams are good to break up the monotony of listening to the same voices over and over. The conversation in streams is also completely natural which is important to get to grips with.
When I was actively studying the Speakly stories I picked out particular words (not all) that I didn't know and would note them in spreadsheet and would look up the translation.
I realised this was taking up valuable time and it's precisely the type of activity that LingQ was made for. So I signed up for it and imported the first Speakly story.
I believe that listening to the Speakly stories either passively or actively while reading along in LingQ is the very minimum I need to be doing right now.
As I've said before, I think the Speakly app is great but I was getting to the point where the new stories are pretty much incomprehensible to me, even though they use some of the 757 words the app says I know. It's not that I'm not motivated to continue learning new words, rather that I believe that the best use of my time right now is to really get to grips with the stories I have unlocked already. I feel like my understanding of the first couple of stories is around 90% but this rapidly drops off and with the latter stories I might know the general topic but my understanding of specific sentences drops to around 10%.
As I mentioned in a previous update, the one thing I'm not tracking is time spent listening to Russian music or practicing singing in Russian. That's something that's just too hard to keep track of reliably. It probably adds up to a couple of hours every month.
My goal for the coming month is to increase the variety of activities I do and increase my overall time with Russian.
July Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 10:49 hours
Active watching or Listening: 0 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 0 hours
Reading with Audio: 0 hours
Active Study: 3:20 hours
Total: 14:09 hours
Daily Average: 0:27 hours
June Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 11:23 hours
Active watching or Listening: 0 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 6:44 hours
Reading with Audio: 0 hours
Active Study: 2:20 hours
Total: 13:50 hours
Daily Average: 0:27 hours
May Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 22:54 hours (Mostly listening to Speakly stories)
Active watching or Listening: 0:6 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 0:37 hours (Anki)
Reading with Audio: 1:42 hours
Active Study: 1:20 hours
Music: Stopped counting, have been listening to Russian music when I can.
Total: 26:40 hours
Daily Average: 0:51 hours
April Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 4:49 hours (Mostly listening)
Active watching or Listening: 3:27 hours (Comprehensible Input, YouTube but mostly Speakly)
Vocabulary and Sentences: 1:03 hours (Anki)
Reading with Audio: 10:48 hours (Speakly and Glossika, 9943 reps, 604 sentences)
Active Study: 12:40 hours (Mostly the app Speakly, 757 words)
Music: 4:08 (Singing and listening)
Total: 36:55 hours
Daily Average: 1:05 hours
March Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 6:22 hours (Mostly listening)
Active watching or Listening: 5:59 hours (Comprehensible Input, YouTube but mostly Speakly)
Vocabulary and Sentences: 7:05 hours (Anki)
Reading with Audio: 12:27 hours (Speakly and Glossika, 7748 reps, 464 sentences)
Active Study: 15:23 hours (Mostly the app Speakly, 206 words)
Music: 2:47 (Singing and listening)
Total: 50:03 hours
Daily Average: 1:31 hours
February StatisticsPassive watching and listening: 4:29 hours (Mostly listening)
Active watching: 3:15 hours (Comprehensible input and shows)
Vocabulary and Sentences: 9:02 hours (Anki)
Reading with Audio: 10:36 hours (Glossika, 5522 reps, 314 sentences)
Active Study: 6:52 hours (Mostly the app Speakly, 206 words)
Total: 34:15 hours
Daily Average: 1:22 hours
January StatisticsPassive watching and listening: 8:56 hours (Mostly listening)
Active watching: 3:24 hours (Comprehensible input and shows)
Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Sentences: 10:44 hours (Anki)
Reading with Audio: 12:52 hours (Glossika, 2958 reps, 164 sentences)
Active Study: 15 minutes (Grammar)
Total: 36:12 hours
Daily Average: 1:13 hours
December StatisticsPassive watching and listening: 37:25 hours (Mostly listening)
Active watching: 3:46 hours (Mostly comprehensible input)
Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Sentences: 13:42 hours (Anki)
Active Study: 1:14 minutes (Grammar)
Total: 56:09 hours
Daily Average: 1:48 hours
Anki 1000 Words
New: 575, 57.5%
Young: 185, 18.5%
Mature: 81, 8.1%
Suspended: 159, 15.9% (I deliberately suspend words that are too easy, my guess a third to half of these)
November StatisticsPassive watching and listening: 58:58 hours (Mostly listening)
Active watching: 3:07 hours (Mostly comprehensible input)
Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Sentences: 8:01 hours (Anki)
Reading with audio: 0:30 minutes (Dialogue)
Total: 70:36 hours
Daily Average: 2:21 hours
October
Passive watching and listening: 35:53 hours
Active watching: 1:47 hours
Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Sentences: 8:03 hours
Reading with audio: 7:29 minutes
Total: 42:51 hours
Daily Average: 1:23 hours
September
Passive watching and listening: 11:27 hours
Active watching: 1:14 hours
Vocabulary: 3:56 hours
Total: 16:37 hours
Daily Average: 0:33 hours
August
Passive watching and listening: 31:28 hours
Active watching: 2:32 hours
Vocabulary: 1:38 hours
Total: 35:38 hours
Daily Average: 1:09 hours
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