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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 49 of 142 10 March 2013 at 6:29pm | IP Logged |
Hi Josquin, thanks for asking! I'm loyal to my schedule so far, finished Il nuovo russo
senza sforzo and now I'm doing Russian Without Toil. This book is better than the first
one and the fact that I have a previous knowledge helps me internalize the structures.
I'm trying to get on the track when it comes to vocabulary, since at first several words
looked similar, and now I'm learning to differentiate their roots. I'm also doing an Anki
deck that covers the 2008 edition, so I hope I can have a nice time at that one as well.
Still, it's too early for me to try practicing Russian, I think. I want to keep doing
this textbook study for a while.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 50 of 142 11 March 2013 at 6:29pm | IP Logged |
RWT just did one thing Il nuovo russo senza sforzo didn't: it's lesson 30 and in the next review lesson we're going to find a declension chart for the singular. It's not like pushing us into memorizing a chart, it's just allowing us to see the big picture before we move on, one thing Il nuovo russo... simply didn't do!
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 51 of 142 12 March 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
It seemed too good to be true! Just because I was happy about RWT, in the sense that it didn't have the insane pace of Il nuovo russo senza sforzo, it started at lesson 31 to introduce an extra set of exercises for us to memorize declensions. That means more than 20 sentences to translate each day. Still, those sentences use the vocabulary already learned, and this is an attribute of a good grammar. Let's see if this extra work won't start making my lessons get overwhelming.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 52 of 142 21 March 2013 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
Time to update a bit. I'm still far from getting my real practice with Russian, which would be reading the Georgian textbook. Working at RWT with no big stress so far. Dialogues are still short enough so I can focus on a fair number of new words. Exercises are longer, but then they are working as a reinforcement. I'm starting to anticipate the expected case ending at a few instances, which is good, since I'm not down to studying them sistematically.
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 53 of 142 25 March 2013 at 7:49am | IP Logged |
Those case endings are tough. I have learned them systematically so far and it's just so
confusing. I am trying to learn them naturally now that I have the foundation.
Edited by zecchino1991 on 25 March 2013 at 7:51am
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4713 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 54 of 142 25 March 2013 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
The one I hate the most is plural genitive. Grrr! =P
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5256 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian
| Message 55 of 142 25 March 2013 at 2:43pm | IP Logged |
Yep. I'm pretty sure that one is the bane of everyone's existence. ;)
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 56 of 142 25 March 2013 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
That one is the toughest for nouns. For adjectives not so much.
The bane of Russian to me is aspect choice.
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