Thank you for the grammar tip. I am reading my grammar book out loud and recording it. Just the one-month grammar overview with Anki vocabulary elevated the way I study French.
I was working on the same exact video, but you beat me to it^^ Maybe I'll make it in another language or see if I can add a different spin to it. At any rate, you did an awesome job. I think it's a really interesting document, and I'm glad people are finding out about it.
It’s the most easy lesson I have ever learned , your teaching style is amazing and I love it Bcz you use subtitle to make it easy for us to learn English
Nice video. It would also be nice to have more videos on speaking. Here in Brazil, you need to know at least four languages to become a diplomat (portuguese ofc, french, spanish and english), and after you pass the exams you go through a 1.5 year course. There, you'll deepen the knowledge in those aforementioned languages and learn another one of your choice from the official UN languages (arabic, chinese, german, you choose). After graduating, you should be speaking at least 5 languages if you take it seriously.
Please make videos on speaking and ways of practicing that on our own and how that can improve our abilites to speak the languages, thank u 🌷 for your amazing choosing of your topics and really important info that we mostly need as languages learners❤
New subscriber here! The fact that you have a chess broadcast going on in the background is the icing on the cake! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Though I’m somewhat skeptical of any English speakers reaching C1 in Russian in under two years without prior Slavic language training.
The FSI rates Russian as a 'Category II' language and students will reach that goal in about 1 year - note that they are spending 4-6 hours a day in the classroom, and are expected to spend time outside of class engaging with the language. Under CEFR, most of them will achieve C2 in that time (not all - but that can also have negative professional repurcussions for them, as some positions _require_ a high level of ability in the target language).
@@todesque so, I was using this reference: sealang.net/archives/sla/gurt_1999_07.pdf which is from 1999 - currently it's at category III, and a category IV has since been added. Really though, I think that is too high - I would rate Russian as about the same difficulty as German for a native English speaker. The Cyrillic alphabet is very easy to learn, and you have to wrap your head around grammatical case (as with German, Latin, or Greek), but that's not too terribly hard. Russian phonology is also pretty straightforward, and none of the sounds are not difficult to learn. So why not Category II?
@@todesque Not to say that I am not open to an argument for Cat III, but I've studied both Russian and German, and I have found Russian to be slightly easier. I would not put it in the same category as Hungarian or Finnish or Tibetan...
@@Phylaetra Russian is Cat 3 according to the FSI. I'm not sure where you're getting your information from. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I have NEVER and I mean never heard anyone say Russian is easier than German (for an English speaker). That's quite an odd claim, I have to say. I've heard Prof John McWhorter claim that Russian is the HARDEST language for English speakers. I respect him enormously, but I don't think he's correct at all, though Russian is very very complex. And yes I agree with you that Hungarian and Finnish are harder than Russian, though the FSI puts them in Cat 3 as well. Again, please check your FSI info, because I think you're mistaken.
@@loistalagrand Well, I guess I meant it as a sort of gentle hint: wouldn't it be good if your illustrations illustrated what you were talking about, at least approximately, instead of something really different? (For me-n of 1-it can make the difference between "liking" someone's video and not....)
