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tarvos
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 Message 25 of 1511
30 January 2012 at 12:33pm | IP Logged 
There is no modern English to Russian Assimil version. It's Dutch, German or French. I have experience speaking the latter two but I would not be comfortable in them as a base language (I should be so much more comfortable than I really am in French, ugh).

I just stuff words into Anki every day or so - depending on how actively I am learning vocabulary that day. I just have a big Russian deck that I use to remember words both ways (i.e. I'll put in the English and Russian word and then generate the reverse cards). I then just practice a bunch of random flashcards every day and see how much I remember. Usually this is everything except maybe one or two words - I assimilate vocabulary REALLY EASILY and usually don't spend more than a few minutes memorising words and such. (I basically look at wordlists and remember 80% anyway).

I do not put in really obvious words I use all the time and will remember anyway (such as театр). I put in words that crop up in textbooks but aren't always in the beginning of chapter word lists following a dialogue, or words I know I am going to have trouble remembering or pronouncing (long words f.e.). I usually remember 80% of a wordlist anyway so vocabulary never really is an issue.

I know it's unorthodox, but I was unfairly blessed with a good memory (I never spent more than five minutes memorizing vocab in high school either - and always got top grade).

Edited by tarvos on 30 January 2012 at 12:34pm

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 Message 26 of 1511
30 January 2012 at 9:39pm | IP Logged 
You are so lucky!
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 Message 27 of 1511
30 January 2012 at 10:54pm | IP Logged 
Not really, since the vocab isn't the problem. The grammar is :)
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 Message 28 of 1511
31 January 2012 at 1:00am | IP Logged 
Welcome to the team, tarvos! I have added this log on our front page, so you are now a full member of team Sputnik. We are looking forward to sharing a bit of all that enthusiasm of yours!
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 Message 29 of 1511
31 January 2012 at 3:27am | IP Logged 
Haha, thanks. This log is predominantly meant for Russian since I am not, at this point in time, studying either French or German formally in any way. They might crop up because I learned them at some point in the past and both languages are rusty, particularly my French is getting so bad after my little two month immersion.
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 Message 30 of 1511
01 February 2012 at 12:36am | IP Logged 
Today was spent studying something else than Russian mostly, courtesy of an exam on thursday, but I did just get some vocab in. Not too bad, as per usual, a four or five minute Anki session adding some new cards and reviewing them for the first time. Tomorrow, I will probably review some old cards at random. What I reviewed this morning was all correct in one go, so my vocab retention - as good as ever, I guess.

I haven't been able to get past lesson 3 of TY for that very reason - I finished all my Russian homework for tomorrow's class already (though I need to give one dialogue another spin) and then after that I will start working on lesson 4 of TY Russian - just get my genitives for personal pronouns in first.

меня, тебя, его, её, нас, вас, их

у меня, у тебя, у нево, у неё, у нас, у вас, у них

(prepositional requirement inserts an н before personal pronouns that don't start with a vowel)
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 Message 31 of 1511
01 February 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged 
у него
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 Message 32 of 1511
01 February 2012 at 12:43pm | IP Logged 
Woops. Of course (even though it's pronounced that way).


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