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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 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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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 26 of 1511 30 January 2012 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
You are so lucky!
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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 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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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| 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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| 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 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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| 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 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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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5054 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 31 of 1511 01 February 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged |
у него
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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 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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