Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

According to Speakly I've learned another 200 words (or lemmas) since August 23rd. Over 149 days that comes to 1.34 new words per day. Of course I'm sure that I've picked up more vocabulary through my other activities. I know there are different levels to knowing a word and the aim is for fully activated vocabulary that can be used in conversation. But it's nice to tick off another milestone.  If I were to continue at the current rate it would take almost 6 years to learn all 4000 words in the Speakly app. 2800 / 1.34 = 2089 days 2089 / 365 = 5.72 years I think I will progress faster than that though. I've found that int the past couple of weeks I'm able to use the app for longer periods of time compared to when I first started. Sometimes I can be using Speakly for 25 minutes before I get bored or tired. And I more often I'm being introduced to words that I already know due to my other learning activities. I expect this to happen more frequently as I progres...

  It was a fairly good month, I spent a lot of time on what I call Active Study which for me consists of using the Speakly App, writing out its dialogues, studying Russian Accelerator and reading LingQ.  That last one could arguably be counted as simply Reading (with or without audio) but I usually count it as Active Studying because most of the time I'm doing it intensively (looking up words, trying to notice grammar). Other times I read LingQ without too many lookups. In those cases I count it as Reading. At the moment most of my Reading With Audio is from using Glossika and Reading With No Audio is mostly Olly Richard's 101 Conversations in Simple Russian. There was some Free Conversation Practice (Speaking or messaging with Russian speakers) which is hard to count so I put 30 minutes. I aim to spend more time on this real world usage of language and it's going to be hard to measure that activity accurately. I'm leaning towards not counting it as part of my statistic...