![]() The great thing is that if you use an app such as ankidroid or Duolingo for this, that you can learn a couple of new words in just 5 minutes per day. Let’s say you skip one day per week on average, that still gets you to 936 words. If you create the simple habit of learning 6 new words per day, that will teach you 26 x 7 x 6 = 1092 words in half a year. Luckily, since you only need about 850-1000 words to speak a language at a conversational level, all you need to get to that level is around 6 months of focused vocabulary learning. Words are the building block of speaking a foreign language, and if you lack vocabulary, you won’t be able to correctly convey what you’re trying to say. Unless you know another Slavic language, such as Polish or Serbian, you will need to learn common words. If you’re learning Spanish, and your native language is English, you’ve got a large amount of cognates (words that are similar in both languages) that give you a huge boost in vocabulary in the beginning. Russian does not have much in common with any Western language. Start learning Russian vocabulary as soon as possible Just be sure to find something that includes English subtitles, so you can still understand the plot.Ģ. So why not switch the English content you’re consuming to Russian content. Also, you likely already spend a significant amount of time every single day on the above activities. You’ll better understand where words start and where they end. At the same time, you also teach your brain and ears to get used to Russian. That’s why you’d do well to:Įvery hour you spend on those activities improves your motivation. If you’re not living in Russia, or meeting Russian people on a daily basis, it’s going to be difficult to achieve this. It’s how Donovan says in his post about learning Arabic: Learning Russian will become a part of your identity, and once that happens, you won’t stop. And the more time you spend on it, the more you will start to feel motivated. The more you listen to Russian, the more you will start to ‘feel’ it. One of the best ways to become more motivated is to immerse yourself in the Russian language. So the more you increase your desire to learn Russian, the better you’ll do in the long run. What I mean is that learning to speak Russian (or any language for that matter) is going to be a long and arduous process. You need to cultivate this spark, so that it becomes a flame. If you’ve ever thought “Hey, Russian sounds like a cool language… would be cool to speak it,” then you’ve already got the beginning spark of motivation. Without a reason to learn Russian, it’s going to be difficult to motivate yourself to practice. I would immerse myself in the Russian culture more I hope you’ll learn something from my mistakes! And thanks Donovan for allowing me to write here □ 1. And if you can avoid those, you cannot imagine where your Russian skills will be in one, two or even five years from now. I made a lot of mistakes and sidesteps though. I’ve been learning Russian for about 4 to 5 years now, and can speak a word or 2. If you put in the time and effort required, you can get to a decent level of conversational Russian in a relative short time span. But you don’t need to make things more difficult than they seem. It’s completely alien from English and most other languages.
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