Acquiring Russian The Natural Way

I found a list of 750 Russian / English cognates to quickly boost your vocabulary. I probably know a lot of these already but it will be useful to have a quick look over these for any I wasn't aware of. In order to get the words list you need to sign up to newsletter but you don't have to buy anything. 750 Russian / English Cognates This list was created by Ari who has a YouTube channel dedicated to learning Russian:  Learn The Russian Language

While researching how to learn / acquire the Russian language I saw recommendations for a book called  Roots of the Russian Language . It lists a couple of hundred word root components that make up many Russian words, along with examples: For example: Parents: родители (raditeli) Motherlands: Родина (radina) Folk / people: народный (narodni) I've owned the book for a while but have only occasionally had a look at it because the typography is old fashioned and not easily legible. But I recently saw someone on a forum explaining how important it was for them in expanding their vocabulary. So I had a look around and found an Anki deck that seems to be based on the book:  Anki Deck: Roots of the Russian Language . While I really don't enjoy using Anki (or any simple Spaced Repetition System) I'll have a go at working through this deck. I'll start with adding 10 new words a day but will lower it if my revision time goes over 20 - 30 minutes. There are 333 cards in th...

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...