Thursday, December 13, 2012

Russian: reading/writing/listening....

So I've been reading Russian out loud way more lately. I've been having some help from a new friend and I'm making some improvements. But I'm still having a difficult time with pronouncing big words and my mouth gets tired. On top of that, I run out of air so I have to pace myself when reading Russian.

Writing texts on my own in Russian is a little difficult so I figure that I'll try to use the vocabulary that I'm learning so it'll help reinforce what I'm learning. Plus, I get to go back and use words that I've forgotten. 
 - I can't wait to stop using the vocabulary from live mocha. I really want to get the vocabulary from one of my Russian books. Then maybe I'll get past the A2 level faster because I can listen to the vocabulary and dialogs.

Listening to a native Russian speaker is fun unless they have a heavy accent then I can't understand anything at all. When I listen to any native speaker, they have to speak slowly most of the time. I really hope I can get rid of that by the end of the academic year.

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