Acquiring Russian: November Report
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 Comprehensible Russian videos or Russian with Max videos. Again I'm trying to focus on topics that I will encounter in everyday life or provide me with cultural insight. In my opinion it wouldn't be efficient to work my way through something like Harry Potter at this point.
Compared to previous months my time with Glossika is down quite a bit (Reading with Audio) I only use Glossika as a reading and pronunciation exercise (I don't type the answer or try to remember translations). My current stats are level: A1 38.6%, 53:57 hours, 13096 reps and 799 sentences. When I do use it I do 50 reps of old material and the 5 reps of 5 new sentences. In total this usually takes me around 15 minutes.
For Active Study I use LingQ. I worked through some beginner lessons and then started loading the stories from the the Speakly app (you can add your own text and media to LingQ). According to LingQ I know 859 words, although many of them are different conjugations of the same word.
According to Speakly I've studied and passively know 757 words and I've unlocked 13 stories which puts me in Beginner III (the app goes to Advanced III which covers the 4000 most common words).
Considering my time with these platforms and getting around 500 understood words from an Anki deck I worked through earlier I guess I have a recognised vocabulary of around 600 to 750 words.
I really enjoy the Speakly app, but as I've mentioned before I couldn't keep up with the new stories. I found it very hard to follow along even though I've supposedly covered enough vocabulary. That's why I'm working through them with LingQ and then passively listening to them over and over. I have a pretty good grasp of the first 5 stories now, both when listening and reading. I've listened to the stories so many times I can recite parts from memory! Once I'm confident with all 13 stories I will start using the app again.
I haven't experienced any particular milestones in my understanding ability. Although I was waiting at a train station recently and overheard a woman speaking on the phone. All I could understand was things like: "He said XXXX", "I think XXXX", "I said XXXX" etc. I guess that's something though.
November '21 Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 37:04 hours
Active watching or Listening: 1:21 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 0 hours
Reading with Audio: 1:06 hours
Active Study: 1:47 hours
Total: 41:18 hours
Daily Average: 1:22 hours
October '21 Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 24:38 hours
Active watching or Listening: 0:35 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 0 hours
Active Study: 1:04 hours
Total: 27:39 hours
Daily Average: 0:53 hours
September '21 Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 16:41 hours
Active watching or Listening: 3:51 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 0 hours
Reading with Audio: 3:12 hours
Active Study: 4:34 hours
Total: 28:20 hours
Daily Average: 0:55 hours
August '21 Statistics
Passive watching and listening: 19:01 hours
Active watching or Listening: 0 hours
Vocabulary and Sentences: 0 hours
Reading with Audio: 4:57 hours
Reading LingQ: 1:04 hours
Active Study: 4:40 hours
Total: 28:39 hours
Daily Average: 0:55 hours
July '21 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 '21 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 '21 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 '21 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 '21 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 '21 Statistics
Passive 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 '21 Statistics
Passive 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 '20 Statistics
Passive 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 '20 Statistics
Passive 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 '20 Statistics
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 '20 Statistics
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 '20 Statistics
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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