Best resources to learn russian?
I'm a quarter through the duolingo course and am wondering to myself whether this is really the most efficient way of learning. I became conversational in German and Spanish as a native english speaker in less than a year but don't feel like I'm picking up russian anywhere nearly as easily despite being interested in the russian language much more than any other language. I understand that russian has a much higher learning curve and is of higher difficulty but still I feel like I'm not making enough progress.
I'm considering paying for professional, in person lessons if I can't find a different resource that I feel I'm making substantial progress in. I also don't really have anywhere to be conversational and practice my skills in that way and I feel like that would help a lot.
Personally, I find Russian a beautiful but somewhat difficult language. A key point for me is the grammar, and Duolingo is very, very little help with that, unfortunately. Especially since they’re removing the forums that I used often to understand what was going on. People here suggested “Real Russian Club”, and although I have only seen a few videos, she’s a pleasant and good to understand teacher. I’ve also listened to a few of Mark Thomson’s podcasts (Russian made easy, Understanding spoken Russian) and I like those too. And recently I bought a massive grammar book… I WILL get this!
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I've been using Udemy for 1.5 months and I'm satisfied. I bought the course for 13 EUR or so.
Can you link the specific course?
If you can afford in person lessons with a professional teacher, then it is probably the best solution.
Personally, I started my journey with assimil (method books - two volumes, but as far as I know they stopped making them for English speakers - a good alternative would be Routledge "Colloquial Russian"). This kind of method books will teach you the language through dialogs (usually applicable to real life situations) and progressively introduce the grammar you need to know (you just can't ignore the grammar when you learn Russian) and the basic vocabulary.
It should bring you to a B2 level if you go through both volume (at least on the theory side, that is, grammar and vocabular).
It is just part of the journey, but it should give you a better foundation than duolingo with more practical dialogs and a much better grammar foundation.
I would add, if you don't have the opportunity to communicate with Russian speakers then try to work through as many exercices as you can. Going through all the exercices in Russian in exercises followed by Чистая грамматика has helped me a lot.
Try watching YouTube channels such as Russian from Afar, Russian with Max, and Russian progress. That were the things that actually helped me to start using Russian myself. In other words lots of listening with and without subtitles and practicing with natives at some point.
Hi guys. If someone's learning Russian and looking for some practice with native speaker you can contact me. I'm willing to help you with learning for some exchange.
I started with Duolingo and gravitated towards private tutoring via italki. It's all online and you can book individual or block sessions - plus you can watch intro videos from tutors before you book in with them.
You need native speaker, it's better than courses and online platforms, as I realized by studying English. That will be ≈10 bucks/hour here
It's russian peoples, nobody knows russian so good like russians
Фильмы, книги, и репетитор :)
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That's not a bad idea. Maybe I'll start playing CSGO again. Are there any other games a lot of Russians play?
