Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

Over the weekend I went to a Russian language social event. I was a little bit nervous about going because I didn't want to impose my basic speaking abilities on others. But the people I met were accommodating and took me seriously.  Funnily enough I didn't speak to any Russians but I did meet people from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria. Although my conversations were simple people were happy to engage and it didn't seem like they were just humouring me. When it came to more advanced topics I had to use English but that was expected.  Overall I consider the outing a success.

  August 2023 Statistics Passive watching and listening: 21:31 hours Active watching or listening: 0:38 minutes Vocabulary and Sentences: 0:26 minutes Reading with Audio: 6:47 hours Reading with no Audio: 1:22 hours Active Study: 10:02 hours Tutor Lessons (Conversation Practice): 8:00 hours Free Conversation Practice: 0:50 minutes Total: 49:37 hours Daily Average: 1:36 hours Note: I'm renaming Conversation Practice to Free Conversation Practice . It's meant to indicate time spent on apps in Tandem or in real life situations. I'm also renaming Personal Lessons to Tutor Lessons (Conversation Practice)  also for clarity. It currently consists of conversation practice with my tutor and includes the time spent on corrections, grammar and vocabulary explanations. Another big jump in time spent on Russian this month, in the first half of the month I was actually averaging 2 hours a day but I've been busy over the last week causing my average to drop off. I was extremely motiv