week 5.3 of learning Russian, a real time experiment vocabulary front: * revising the top frequency list - still 250-300 - it starts to get boring as the initial shock, and excitement of the language eased, and you start to see five different words that mean "to go", which is not helpful learning. * as a lot of people point out it is hopeless to remember words alone, out of context. but for complete beginner level i still think this is the most efficient way of learning in the first, say, 10 hours of the study, breaks the logic barrier. * I started the cognates remembering today, it proves to be extremely easy to master. Some words are pretty much useless, but there are a lot of common words like, идея, информация, фамилия, музыка which are basically English spelled out differently. . There are not that many of them but the practise makes a good point: that the study material material is most effective when it is interesting and relevant. phrases: revising what I learn from the italki lessons, teacher gave me some notes which are great for refreshing memories. writing: it's a crazy task at the moment, to try to get used to the russian keyboard first.