Arabic is a hard case given the diglossia and the large number of dialects: on Al Jazeera you can hear all the Arabic varieties (MSA in news reports, dialects in interviews, and a mix MSA and dialects or "educated spoken Arabic" in talk shows) so it makes it even harder. It's still impressive that you can understand most of it!
You're right, I should add Preply and italki. I've been using italki for Turkish for the past few weeks and it helps a lot.
There's so much you can do with 3000 words but tbh, I'm 5000 words in with Arabic, and still struggle to understand Al Jazeera unless I have a dictionary handy. However, for every day life I'm good. I'm technically almost done with B2 and will be C1 soon.
I don't think I could get there were it not for preply and doing an intense 4 hours a week of conversation IRL for a year. Pricy but worth it, although 2 hours a week is the recommended. Check out preply.
Congrats on your Russian progress so far, Antoine.
I’m towards the end of my first month (lesson 21) of Russian with Pimsleur. Knowing the magic of assimil for contextualizing my book knowledge in French and letting me speak within weeks, I am getting bored with pimsleur. It’s moving slow, doesn’t focus on phrasal context as much as assimil and it focuses way too long on repetitive content (till when are we going to talk only about food?!).
Now I understand assimil has a basic Russian in English but the advanced is only in French. My French is intermediate so I hope the Russian/French helps me learn Russian while I improve my French. Wishful thinking or a good plan?
A really cool project, bro. And great that you have written a lot about the apps you have been using and the progress you got from them. I don't like DuoLingo myself - I think it's rubbish and a waste of time. And yes, your Russian accent is really good ;-)
Interesting. In class today we were talking about apps to supplement classroom learning. Did you have any knowledge of Russian, especially in its alphabet, when you started ? Or were you what we call a 'raw beginner'?
Arabic is a hard case given the diglossia and the large number of dialects: on Al Jazeera you can hear all the Arabic varieties (MSA in news reports, dialects in interviews, and a mix MSA and dialects or "educated spoken Arabic" in talk shows) so it makes it even harder. It's still impressive that you can understand most of it!
You're right, I should add Preply and italki. I've been using italki for Turkish for the past few weeks and it helps a lot.
There's so much you can do with 3000 words but tbh, I'm 5000 words in with Arabic, and still struggle to understand Al Jazeera unless I have a dictionary handy. However, for every day life I'm good. I'm technically almost done with B2 and will be C1 soon.
I don't think I could get there were it not for preply and doing an intense 4 hours a week of conversation IRL for a year. Pricy but worth it, although 2 hours a week is the recommended. Check out preply.
Congrats on your Russian progress so far, Antoine.
I’m towards the end of my first month (lesson 21) of Russian with Pimsleur. Knowing the magic of assimil for contextualizing my book knowledge in French and letting me speak within weeks, I am getting bored with pimsleur. It’s moving slow, doesn’t focus on phrasal context as much as assimil and it focuses way too long on repetitive content (till when are we going to talk only about food?!).
Now I understand assimil has a basic Russian in English but the advanced is only in French. My French is intermediate so I hope the Russian/French helps me learn Russian while I improve my French. Wishful thinking or a good plan?
A really cool project, bro. And great that you have written a lot about the apps you have been using and the progress you got from them. I don't like DuoLingo myself - I think it's rubbish and a waste of time. And yes, your Russian accent is really good ;-)
Interesting. In class today we were talking about apps to supplement classroom learning. Did you have any knowledge of Russian, especially in its alphabet, when you started ? Or were you what we call a 'raw beginner'?