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Acquiring Russian: November Report

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Last month I only provided an update on my statistics so let me go into a little more detail about my studies today. It seems I've logged the most amount of time on Russian since March 2021. It might be the case that with the weather getting noticeably colder I'm spending more time inside. I'm still nowhere near mass immersion as per the Refold.la method, but at least I'm consistent. Over the course of 15 months I've dedicated just under an hour a day to Russian. Over the course of this period I dabbled with various approaches and over the past 6 months I've adapted the Refold strategy in a way that suits me right now.  My main source of content is stories and monologues from the  Speakly  app since they cover everyday topics that I want to be able to understand and speak. Things like family, travel, food, hobbies etc. I usually don't have the patience for watching shows, although I go through phases where I watch some episodes. I do occasionally watch Comp