Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

Something that I've heard Steve Kaufmann say repeatedly is that one of the most important skills when learning a language is your ability to notice. When you start noticing patterns you should investigate them and use them as an opportunity to learn. Well after 7 months of learning Russian I really started to notice the different cases for 'you': ты, тебя, тебе etc.  Don't get me wrong, it's not that this has been under my radar all this time. It's just that my curiosity has now become so intense that I'm actually willing to learn a little bit of grammar in order to understand it better. This is also the result of using the Speakly app which requires me to choose the correct word for some of the exercises. From some quick searches this is what I've determined to be a list of the various cases of 'you'. Please realise that I'm learning this for the first time and just going off of what I've found online. Don't take this as the definite...

I recently discovered that included with the 625 words pdf are audio recordings of each word. After listening to them I realised that I was pronouncing a couple of words in the wrong way. And it's noticeable how difficult it is to override a wrongly remembered pronunciation. This shows to me the importance of learning it correctly the first time. While someone like Steve Kaufmann has learned multiple languages through a lot of reading, from what I can tell he has a strong accent and that's something I want to avoid as much as possible.  An interview he does with Matt vs Japan shows that while he can speak it well he has a poor accent compared to Matt, who has only focused on Japanese with a Mass Immersion / All Japanese All The Time approach.  26:46 / 30:21 Steve Kaufmann & Matt vs. Japan Discuss Hardcore Language Learning  (I've linked to the part of the video where they speak Japanese with each other). From now on I'm going to review the included recordings e...