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Acquiring Russian: September Report

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  This month I've significantly raised my study time to almost 1.5 hours per day. It's the first time since January that I've studied for longer than a hour, although I achieved 52 minutes in June. I expect this to continue as we head into the Autumn and Winter. September '22 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 30:28 hours Active watching or listening: 1:24 hours Vocabulary and Sentences: 2:18 hours Reading with Audio: 2:01 hours Reading with no Audio: 1:37 hours Active Study: 5:22 hours Personal Lessons: 0 hours Conversation: 0 hours Total: 43:10 hours Daily Average: 1:26 hours Activities breakdown: Passive watching and listening: Mostly Speakly stories and some LingQ podcasts with Max. Active watching or listening: There is a media watch channel that posts clips from Russian political discussion shows. It's pure propaganda but it's interesting to for me to see how they are trying to portray the invasion of Ukraine.  Vocabulary and Sentences: The Roots o