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| playadom Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5956 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 9 16 January 2012 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is just a preliminary post -- I have a large music theory paper due tomorrow, so I
need to occupy myself with lots and lots of proofreading -- more will come soon. My main language goal for this year is to achieve at least B2 in Russian. I'm coming into the challenge having studied about 75ish hours worth of Russian (mostly from Russian Without Toil and NPRC), with one unfortunate catch: that was early last year, so I've forgotten most of it. One could say that I have a small Russian-shaped hole in my brain. I dabbled a bit with LR-ing in Russian a couple of weeks ago. This didn't give me any real benefits in terms of proficiency, but it seems to have greatly increased my motivation to study Russian. I'll probably resume Russian Without Toil as soon as possible, supplementing it with either a newer Assimil course, the Princeton course, Modern Russian 1, Karavanova's Survival Russian, or some unholy combination thereof (I'll worry about this when I don't have a paper due the next day!). Over the past few days, I've been going through all of the Assimil lessons that I had covered, and I seem to be able to understand more or less what I was able to when I stopped (perhaps I should thank the brief bout with LR for refreshing my Russian). My secondary goal is to increase my Italian vocabulary. I started studying in November of 2010 to prepare for a trip to Italy during May of 2011. I was able to achieve C1 in reading and a solid B2 level in speaking and writing. I achieved this by studying approximately three hours per day: assuming I can maintain the pace, that would equal between 1000 and 1100 hours of Russian study for the year, about as much as would be required to get the same result as my Italian study. I haven't had much chance to practice speaking Italian: I need it for academic purposes, so most of the practice that I have is through reading or through opera. I'll probably continue reading a lot and start up another Anki deck for vocab. Ultimately (3-5y out), Russian is the language I'm most concerned about achieving native-like grammar and accent in: my girlfriend is from Belarus, and we'd like to raise our kids to be bilingual in English and Russian (plus whatever assorted languages I manage to secretly teach them...this is far in the future, so I have time to pick up a few other languages before I have to worry about that =D). Edited by playadom on 16 January 2012 at 5:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 9 17 January 2012 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hope your music paper went well! And I think your future plans sound great. Russian and English sounds like a fantastic gift for any child.
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| playadom Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5956 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 9 20 January 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Alright, it's time to get deeper into studying!
For the past week or so, I've been trying to reactivate the little bit of Russian that's floating around in my head, mainly by re-listening to and re-reading the old Russian Without Toil lessons and reading through textbooks to get the grammatical charts and lots of example sentences fresh in my head. Where next? Probably more L-R, for the time being. I've noticed that continuing with low-volume (2hrs or less a day) LR still seems to work for me -- it's helping to make the case endings spontaneously producible rather than the product of several seconds of effort. I'll probably also copy out the example sentences, exercises, and dialogues from the New Penguin Russian Course (I had completed the first 15 last time I was studying Russian). It shouldn't take terribly long, and I imagine I'll be able to be a lot more precise with the grammar rules now that it's the second go around). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| playadom Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5956 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 9 27 January 2012 at 5:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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I made a wonderful find in the library last night. I now have the scores to scores of
songs by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky, plus several books intended for singers that contain IPA realizations of the Russian, interlinear glosses of the texts, as well as literary translations. The music is absolutely fantastic, and so is the sonic quality of the poetry. I'll do some short scriptorium sessions with the song texts in order to drill the poems into my head (luckily, since the books are for singers, there's loads of information about diction). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4960 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 5 of 9 27 January 2012 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ah that sounds great. I wish I could sing. It would make language learning so much more
fun. Good luck anyway! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 6 of 9 28 January 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Welcome to the team! Music and languages is a great combination, and Russian is full of
it! The interlinear texts sound fantastic. I'm jealous :) Interesting project, and I'm sure great results are waiting for you out there. Keep up the good work! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 7 of 9 28 January 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
How far have you gotten? I am using the French version, but for some reason I seem unable to go beyound lesson 30. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| playadom Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5956 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 9 29 January 2012 at 2:21am | IP Logged | |||||
I made it through the first 52 lessons of Without Toil. After showing it to several Russian friends, I've made the decision to not do the вторая волна, since the language is awkward and archaic (which must be pretty bad, since even the English half of the course sounds ridiculous). I'll be passively going through the lessons for listening practice and vocabulary. I'll do the second wave of Il Nuovo Russo Senza Sforzo when I get to it. I'm currently 16 lessons in, but I've known virtually everything so far, so the amount of time spent on each lesson was as long as the audio lasted. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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