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Russian mobile stress in past tense verbs
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FrostBlast
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23 April 2011 at 5:49am | IP Logged

Antigrav_7 wrote:

And how long do you reckon does it take to get to near-conversational fluency in Russian

I've been studying russian for 4 months and I'm able to follow very basic conversations and take part in them with minimal mistakes. Forget about saying where I'm going or where I went and all that (anything related to movement in space is ridiculously complicated in Russian) but I can say where I'm from, what I did yesterday, last week, last year, 3 years ago, what I plan on doing, what I study, where I work, talk about my family, etc. As I said, basic conversation. At the speed I'm going and the courses I'm having, I guess that within another 6-8 months I should be able to communicat with a certain ease in pretty much any situation. So in my case, make it an estimated 10-12 months for a "reasonable" conversational ability.

Of course, reading texts is always easier than following a conversation, so vocabulary building shouldn't be a big problem. I'm guessing that 15 months from now, I should be able to talk with much ease - so after about 20 months of starting my study of russian form scratch.

I study about 20 hours a week.

Edited by FrostBlast on 23 April 2011 at 5:51am
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23 April 2011 at 12:17pm | IP Logged

Good on you. If you find everything related to motion is too complicated in Russian, it may be (my guess) because it requires the use of prefixed verbs. But a lot of other situations require them, as well. A sound start seems to be having ready-made answers and starts for many conversations (such as 'where are you from'). You can have these for motion in space, too.
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