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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 27 07 June 2014 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
Russian Boot Camp: Introduction
[Boot Camp: "a short, intensive, and rigorous course of training" (New Oxford American Dictionary, 2001).] I've freed up two full weeks in my calendar for the specific purpose of levelling up my embarrassing and floundering Russian. During this time, I aim to study episodes of the fun Russian tv series "Кухня" from home during the day, and then watch and enjoy them together with my wife in the evening. At the moment, my ever-patient missus thinks I'm probably around a low B1 on the CEFR scale. This sounds and feels about right, especially given my long absence from speaking or studying any real amount of Russian. So this project is a great way to kick-start (sorry, I couldn't resist) my Russian back into action. By the end of two weeks, I hope to progress to a more comfortable level in my speaking and listening skills (for both listener and speaker), and to help me along, I'll try to think and speak only in Russian as much as possible and create a Russian mircoclimate around me in my travels to and from my little домик. Current level: Low B1 at best (after a day or two of sanding off the rust and applying WD40). Goals: - Primary goal: Make my wife happy. - Secondary goal: Reach a mid-intermediate level of spoken proficiency and fluency in Russian (approx. B1+ on the CEFR scale). Duration: 2 weeks (3 day intermission midway). - Starts: Monday, 23rd June, 2014 - Intermission: 30th June - 2nd July - Ends: Sunday, 9th July, 2014 Activities: Intensive listening and reading; active immersion; conversational practice; blogging. Materials: Russian tv series "Кухня" with accompanying transcripts kindly provided by Big_Dog (aka leosmith on HTLAL) and his tutor Patineuse; pocket notebook and pen; hover-over dictionary, word frequency software, and online blog. Edited by Teango on 03 July 2014 at 11:57pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5191 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 2 of 27 07 June 2014 at 1:44am | IP Logged |
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Good luck with your endeavour! I just started on Кухня too, using the same transcripts. I'm still figuring out how I'm going to use it. It's a bit hard to simultaneously watch the video and keep one's place in the document. I'm thinking, watch the 20 episodes first with minimal use of the text - just for familiarity and to improve my ear. Then spend time reading the text, researching unknown words and marking it up with some colours (this could potentially take weeks). Then rewatch all the episodes (or perhaps extract mp3s for walks). I'm interested to hear what your strategy is.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 27 07 June 2014 at 2:56am | IP Logged |
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I love it when a plan comes together :-)
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 4 of 27 07 June 2014 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
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@chokofingrz
I'm currently working on developing a "better" strategy already (lol); theory rarely predicts practice. And I'll need it pretty soon too - that first breakneck speed paragraph is almost a showstopper! @Solfrid Cristin I ain't gettin' on no plane, Hannibal! Edited by Teango on 08 June 2014 at 7:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lassus Hexaglot (formerly Josquin) Senior Member Germany Joined 3849 days ago 36 posts - 67 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Italian, Swedish, Latin Studies: Russian, Irish, Japanese | Message 5 of 27 07 June 2014 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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Удачи, товарищ!
Here's another guy trying to study Russian with the Кухня transcripts. I downloaded them a few days ago, but forgot about them during the hassle of getting my account reactivated. Thanks for reminding me of them! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 6 of 27 08 June 2014 at 7:53am | IP Logged |
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I'm happy to hear that several of us are studying these transcripts, and am particularly looking forward to hearing how you guys get on and which strategies you find most helpful.
@Lassus de Josquin Спасибо, Kапитан! Edited by Teango on 08 June 2014 at 7:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 7 of 27 08 June 2014 at 6:34pm | IP Logged |
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Удачи, мой друг. Я прекрасно понимаю твою
ситуацию :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 8 of 27 09 June 2014 at 9:30am | IP Logged |
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@tarvos
Спасибо, дружище! Удачи с Мастером и Маргаритой - это замечательный роман. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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