week 5 of learning Russian, a real time experiment so work caught up, and completely wasted week 4. have done a few sessions through italki and things are traveling well on that front, it really shows how different teachers use different strategies to teach you, and I found that, personally, so far, going through simple phrases with a little stress on grammar is nice, looking at textbooks and trying to remember six different variations of the same verb is not. memrise word count is 300. which means that my basic vocabulary coverage is about 60% in terms of word count and I will spend the coming weeks revising them, and put word expansion on a second priority this way. I'll try to get some cognates remembered while i'm at it. So the next phase of vocabulary acquisition would have to be topic specific. Before I can think of anything else I will try to hang on to some of the online papers for inspirations, phrases and words specific. Listening wise I find LingQ.com a great source of read materials with texts.