week 2 of learning Russian, a real time experiment hi everyone, this serves a journal of my study experiences thus far. Please share your experiences as i'm a complete noob. "there's no way and no point in learning Russian, not at your age." says my friend. the truth is the recent news exposure of the region has brought me more interests into the area than ever before. And you really can't say no to a language in which Water and Vodka spells so similar. Other than the perspective of facing years and years of hard practise, however, I'm into the school of thought that language learning should always be simple. Hard, demanding, but simple. Week 1: I spent the whole of week one researching on methods and materials on learning Russian, of which Italki is one, as well as learning the cyrillic and pronunciation basics. Week 2: I decided to learn the basic vocabulary of Russia with a simple ANKI card system, didn't really stick as it was really boring. Wasted three days. Switched to Memrise. So far so good. The 4 hour body guy has a lot of good notes about deconstructing the language into small pieces for digestion, as well as the 3months to fluency guy. Sounds like a plan. So far I have covered 150 words on the frequency list, which should cover about 50% of the written vocabulary in Russian, things like it, that, who, what. Now to fill in the blanks in between. looking forward to Week 3: a few things planned ahead include: Finish the top 300-500 words memorisation asap, and move on to the Russian Cognates, words like STUDENT, that are basically English pronounced in Russian cyrillic, which may not be very cool but at this stage very fast way to expand the vocabulary. Realistically this should take me all week. the next step would be to find a topic, in which there is plenty of information easily available as well as something that's very interesting, and hopefully not too complicated.In that way I can find some words with some actual meanings to fill in the blanks between "i" and "you". I have a week to find that.