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Acquiring Russian: December Report and 2022 Overview

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  First an overview of December, then a look back at 2022 as a whole. December '22 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 10:15 hours Active watching or listening: 0:54 hours Vocabulary and Sentences: 5:24 hours Reading with Audio: 0 hours Reading with no Audio: 3:10 hours Active Study: 13:57 hours Personal Lessons: 0 hours Conversation: 0 hours Total: 33:40 hours Daily Average: 1:07 hours Activities breakdown:  I wasn't working over the Christmas and New Years period so spent a lot less time than normal on Passive Listening and more on Active study; LingQ and Speakly. I reached some milestones over the past month. On the 24th of December I finished Beginner 1 in LingQ with about 1800 words known. Today I'm at about 2000 known words. It should be noted that on that platform the different inflections of the same word are counted as separate words. I finished reading the 60 mini-stories on the 26th of December. I don't know 100% of all the words in those stories but I