Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

Last night I had another dream in which I was speaking in Russian. As before I was limited by my real life abilities. So it was a very short conversation. Does anyone else dream about speaking the language they are learning?

  I recently passed 1000 hours of Russian in almost as many days (944 to be exact). I would have liked to be much further along my Russian acquisition journey, but I guess it's an achievement to have stuck with it consistently over this length of time. As much as I enjoy Russian, I have other interests that are a bigger priority for me. This is the first time I've attempted to acquire a new language so in the beginning there was a lot of trial and error with different approaches and apps. Broadly speaking I've been following a Comprehensible Input / Mass Immersion / Refold approach, but the exact activities varied until I settled on what I found most enjoyable and useful.  In hindsight I would do some things differently, but only to be more efficient rather than to employ a completely different method or strategy. Going forward I really want to increase the amount of time spent reading, studying grammar and on conversation practice (the latter is slowly happening as part of

  It's been a good month but there's nothing out of the ordinary to report. I continued with 1-on-1 Comprehensible Input lessons (short stories, discussing every day situations with he help of images), which includes a little bit of conversation practice. I was tracking towards an average of 1:30 per day in total however my teacher went on holiday last week and I slacked off with my other activities bringing the average down. I'd like to pick up with my reading in LingQ because I did very little of that this month. Other than that my main activities were: Listening to the Speakly monologues, using the ListLang and Speakly apps and reading / listening to sentences in Glossika. February 2023 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 25:53 hours Active watching or listening: 0:29 hours Vocabulary and Sentences: 2:33 hours Reading with Audio: 2:14 hours Reading with no Audio: 0:44 minutes Active Study: 2:52 hours Personal Lessons: 2:15 hours Total: 37:02 hours Daily Average: 1