Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

This month I've started using Speakly and Glossika again after taking a break from both. In each case I prefer to focus as much as I can on the input that they provide. So for Glossika I only listen and repeat, no typing practice. I aim to do 50 repetitions of old material using the 'Weakest Memories' setting and 5 new sentences every day. For me Glossika is purely for reading, listening and speaking practice. I'm not trying to memorise the sentences and I'm not using the typing or speach recording functions. The reason I review using the 'Weakest Memories' setting is because it shows sentences from oldest to newest. I took a break from Speakly because for me the main value is the narrated stories which include a transcript in Russian and English. I import those stories into LingQ and listen to them almost every day. I'm getting back into reading them in LingQ. As you use the Speakly and learn more words you unlock more Live Situations (short dialogues) ...

I signed up for Glossika a week ago and it's having some kind of effect on me. I'm not sure if this is actually contributing to my acquisition of Russian though. I guess I'll have to wait and see. At the moment I'm only using it read and listen to, then repeat, the provided phrases. I'm not writing or translating from English to Russian. I'm noticing some of these sentences popping into my head throughout the day. Which makes sense because I'm saying them out loud over and over. As I've mentioned before the Comprehensible Input / Mass Immersion / Refold method usually advocates to wait with output. One of the reasons is that the speaker might ingrain bad habits such as poor grammar or a bad pronunciation. With Glossika I'm repeating what I hope are grammatically correct sentences and as far as I can tell I'm now good enough at pronunciation from listening to hours and hours of native Russian. So at the very least I don't think I'm doing a...