this is EVERYTHING I do to learn Russian!! summary to screenshot at the end! #LanguageLearning #polyglot #languages #русский

Hi, my name is Sarah, I'm learning Russian, and I find out a lot of questions asking about what I used to learn. So I'm going to try my best to explain every single thing that I do, which can be applied to nearly any language at any level. I first started with just learning the alphabet, um, around the first 200, maybe 300, most commonly spoken words, and familiarize myself with the very basic grammar. So now above all, I don't really use any apps, and I revolve everything I do around reading, writing, listening, and speaking, so I will never blindly memorize flashcards if not through applications through one of those skills. And after every single category that I list, whether that's reading, writing, listening, or speaking, I will always take a note of the vocabulary gained, put it in an onky deck, and continuously practice and review. I'm going to start first by explaining what I do for listening, because this is what helps Exelmo vocabulary the most. So what I do is I will pull up either a Russian, a short Russian podcast, or a song with captions, listen to the entire thing all the way through, and then transcribe every single word that was set. Then I go back, listen to the entire thing a second time, and try my best to figure out as much vocabulary as I can, only from context clues. Only after do I figure out as much as I can from context clues, then do I allow myself to look up the actual definitions and take notes of their parts of speech and definitions on the transcriptions that I made. For reading, I've started reading the book store stories in Russian, and there are other versions for French, Spanish, I'm not sure whether the languages they have, but I do follow a somewhat similar process, where I read through the entire thing once, I don't look anything up, I read through it a second time, and you will be surprised at how much you can learn from context clues alone. And then after that do I allow myself to look up the actual definitions. For writing, I write a journal entry in Russian, the best that I can every single night, and I do think this is one of the best things you can do if learning a language, because you are learning daily vocabulary that pertains to you personally. Again, I write at the best that I can, so obviously I don't know all the Russian vocabulary, so I will just leave an English word for the vocabulary that I don't know. I type it all up, and I specifically handwrite my journals to practice my handwriting, but then I will type it up, and I'll go sentence by sentence, setting it to chat GPT, and it will explain to me the proper grammar that I was supposed to use, and fill in the correct Russian term. And lastly for speaking, which to me is the hardest, but also probably the most important skill to focus on, I do have Russian speaking friends, but for the times where I don't, where I may not be able to speak to them, there are alternatives. I'm not entirely sure on the accuracy of everything that it says, but what I will do is I use the audio feature on chat GPT and click the captions or the live transcription button, so then I can also see and read everything that it generates, and I will just have an audio conversation with chat GPT. And what I like most about this is that you can do something similar with a way that you do your journal, where if I'm speaking in Russian and I don't know a specific Russian term, I will just leave a blank in English, and then it will correct me with what I meant to say with the proper grammar and addition of the proper Russian term. There is also a GPT you can add called Language Teacher Miss Smith, so that it's just more pertain to the language you want to learn. Again, for all of these skills, whether it's speaking, reading, writing, or listening, any vocabulary that you learned, you want to make sure that you save it, you just don't want to read it once and forget about it. I will always add it to an ongy deck and review, I know a lot of people may not like flashcards for language learning, but that's just what I personally do. In terms of grammar, I will, for example, watch a video on the basics of the case system, or masculine feminine words, etc. And I will learn a lot and apply most of it just through practicing actual sentences, because that makes it a lot easier for me to remember, as opposed to just memorizing the endings of the cases without actually applying them. But as I am learning through my individual sentences, I'll still learn in a more broad sense that I will watch videos by Easy Russian, for basic grammar, or any other video I can really find. And that is pretty much everything that I do, and that's all. Bye!