One Year of Duolingo Russian 

Duolingo is fine for vocabulary, what changed my Russian and sentence formation were the following 3 - Pimsleur (30 mins a day), Assimil, Cortina Method (now in public domain, so free online).

Wonderful watching you both. Very well done Scott. Seems like you are doing a great job on this learning journey. Congratulations!!!

I tried russian myself, it is a really complex language in terms of grammar. Unfortunatly duolingo isn't appropriate to learn grammar since it is more like a tool to use at the beginning, and also pretty good to learn some vocab

Thanks for sharing and creating this for your fellow language learners! 😃

Nice progress. Russian is quite a difficult language to learn. I've got a few friends who currently study it and I try to help them when I can, but I see that it takes a lot of effort for them. You are doing well. Keep up the good work!

Good job mate, honestly I feel like if you just force yourself to speak in Russian with your wife constantly given your environment you will improve exponentially in a very short time, keep it up!

Good job ! I am very impressed with your skills to learn this difficult language. In comparisson with English it's like the earth and the sky. Keep up learning and good luck to you and your helpful wife!

Hi, Scott! You're doing great! Keep it up! Actually, I speak both Russian and English, and there are lots of russian people in my country, just as in your case) And I can tell by my experience that, you will learn Russian very well if you will train it at least 2 or 3 years with native speakers. So, don't worry, you can do this! Good luck)

as a russian speaker it is funny seeing him struggle comprehending words and sentences i know

I used Duolingo at the very beginning for Portuguese and was useful...for the first 1/5 or 1/4 of the journey. Once you can start to read/listen basic graded readings for the A1-A2-B1 levels it starts to be a poorer version compared with that readings and listening plus a small amount of grammar explanations (10-20% of the study time). But, as said, it's good for beginners who want to start motivated. I presented it to my mother and she's doing quite well in Italian, now starting to get into real human content. And most probably I will use it again for the beginning period with German.

this is so cute!!

Have you complete full Duolingo course tho? Living with native speaker should be so easy to learn foreign language. Just try TPRS method.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this!

Perfect project, perfect video..now we see that it's not possible with a single tool, we should use additional tools..greetings from Canada..all the best!

Impressive. I'm still learning French, Didn't seriously start until I was 43. Missed lots of opportunities when I lived in Quebec. Living with Russian speakers must have helped big time!

I also live in kyiv as a foreigner, and I understood everything she said, and I didn't do any lessons or use any apps.

Very nice video :) You've made a pretty good progress in Russian. I've been learning Russian since 2020, and I recommend two RU-vid channels: RealRussianClub (especially the From Zero to Fluency series), and Be Fluent in Russian. Good luck!

Thank you for the Pro tip at the beginning. I really thought i could get away with it using the latin alphabet to learn Russian.

Go through it slowly and write things down. Don't rush. I am a beginner. I refer to Hugo's Russian in 3 Months. The cassettes are all on RU-vid. He's far better than me.

living in Kiev, with a Russian wife...how are you not further along? So confused...

sup, great vid, would also like to see Anna taking an english test, dunno why but I just wanna see it hahah

So basically it is a vocabulary tester. I want to *speak* not pass a vocab test.

Russian is a very hard language to learn! I've been going at it for 13 months now, n every day I fall more n more in love with the Russian language. Я никогда не был в России, и также не знаю никого из России, и... конечно я знаю мой русский ещё очень плохо! но каждый день я стараюсь посмотреть youtube видео, послушать русский музыку и так далее... но русский язык не легко. conjugation, the 🔤 alfabet, reading, wasn't too hard for me.! it's the cases that still kick my behind, some of 'em I still get 'em all mixed up. Good luck to you and to me too! and everyone up for the challenge.!

Прикольное милое видео получилось!)

Начинка наверное довольно сложное слово для запоминания 😂

Nothing beats having an actual tutor/teacher. Also, the use of it as often as possible. Duolingo to me is a waste of time. Pimsleur is a good on....but again tutor is the way to go.

"This is a caffe and not my house"

Lucky guy!

would be interesting to hear casual conversation between you. picked phrases are so hard and short, it's difficult to understand level

So 1 year and u don't know jack living in Kiev?

I initially learned Russian using Busuu. After having finished A1 I did one of those 'test your Russian level' tests online. On the A1 level I understood very little, leading me to believe Bussu was missing the mark. However, one chap understood everything, and he had studied using Duolingo. This prompted me to add Super Duolingo (paid subscription) when I was already on Busuu B1. I must say, Duolingo lessons are more enjoyable, and I'm learning aspects I had not learned using Busuu. Duolingo also provides many opportunities to talk Russian, something which ceased in Busuu after A1. Of course we also watch a lot of Russian TV series and movies, sometimes 1-2 hours per night, which also helps.

Цитата из "12 стульев" - это пять :))) Удачи, Скотт ✌

I hope you are fine in Kyiv.

Have you improved in the past year?

like my home: she's in charge. what a lovely couple. i've done Duo for awhile, it's good for word knowledge, but you need to speak it with someone.

For anyone who lives with a person who speaks the language they are looking to learn, this is a big help! My tip though is to have them bring in as many friends or family to the home who only speak that language so you are forced to speak to communicate. I think a lot of people think that if their partner speaks a different language, it’s a fast pass to fluency. But when it’s your partner, the two of you often find it very hard to keep communicating in the less mutually communicable language. The more you’re plunged into the deep end necessarily, the more you’ll be incentivized to learn. That being said, it’s good to have a platform to practice on everyday, and it’s good that Duolingo is free to use. Best of luck to everyone on a language learning journey!

9:00 its funny because in portuguese, the false friend for casserole: "caçarola" also means pan!

Странно что последний коммент был год назад. Я вообще искала видео где duolingo учит русских английскому.

You are so kind people 🤍🫶

Папа, это не мой мотор! lol. I'm over 3 months in and it is recycling all the same content even in different categories.. It doesn't teach any of the actual rules.. It taught me the alphabet in 2 days and many basic words but feels like it is far from being an ideal way to learn. Now, after seeing this video, I'm very glad to have been looking at some other resources.. I enjoyed your video more than I'm enjoying duo.. Thanks!

I can fluently read Russian I need to learn more for conversation

I am in your shoes. Eventhough I do not live in Ukraine or Russia which is a terrible shame because these are beautiful people and I love to be there. I was in Ukraine a couple of times myself. I used to have a Ukrainian / Russian girlfriend but that ended a few months ago because of the war and the sanctions. Still I keep learning Russian (In between following the news) It is a beautiful language and hopefully I can use it some day. спасибо for making this video.

Honestly, it's cool that you actually stuck with it long enough to get a 365 day streak, but did you record this video with the same camera they used to fake the moon landing?

Now it's her turn to learn English!

I sort disagree tus at Duolingo is bad for grammar. It doesn’t go as in depth into it, but you still learn it intuitively through forming sentences. Duolingo Polish and Spanish have been a great start.

О, я закончил русский курс, это не год, он заканчивается примерно на сто двадцать тысяч, и я закончил его за пять месяцев.

Duolingo is great for memory, but not so good for learning a language, it will take a long yime and a lot of repitition. There is a set of courses here on RU-vid that are taught by native Russian, professional teachers. It was posted by the Dallas Independent School District, and they are Russian World, Russian world 2, and Russian World 3. They cover 3 school years of Russian classes. You get everything, vocabulary, the cases and their uses, pretty much the complete course including all the correct grammar. The courses are based on the Textbook "Russian for Everyone, and both the textbook and workbook ere easy to get online. But evrn without the books, these videos were way more helpful than my courses at the Dallas County Community Collegees. Ваша жена - терпеливыи женщина, и ангел. Сделай её счастливой! BTW, while there are no articles in Russian, there are cases that take their place. That is the reason that you see fifferent endings and prefixes in your duolingo lessons.

You motivate me, bro, great content! You speak Russian better than your wife speaks English, без обид (no offense) xD

The way she’s phrases sentences make it so hard

So, an update video soon?

Maybe it is time to switch to a different learning app. It doesn't seem like you learned much in one year, but I'm sure you know more russian than I do.

Casserole is actually Pan in french lol

Russian sentences was in very hight level. But He does the job done with easy examples.

Какая красавица!

Round 2

not bad. Russian ain't simple for native english speakers. keep it up

How are you doing nowadays? Tape the video!

Damn

3:30 im 48 days in and i got 3 right

What a cold ass relationship... I LOVE IT! i want one named Natashka

Russian is the 4th most difficult language of the world

еще раз доказано, что русские женщины самые красивые в мире... отличная работа, Скотт

How far in the Duolingo course did you get?

I’m Luthuanian (live in ireland) and I know my Russians not perfect but a year… и он незнаешь как сказать или как перевод гулять… и его произношения это так плохо- ( извини я 15 лет и я не хочу быть грубый или неприличий ) хорошего дня оба

Maybe other methods are better for you.

Как я есть красива жена как тебя?

Now hearing about speaking and learning russian in Kyiv is really cringe. That's natural thing that people there spoke russian and that ethnically russian people live in Ukraine. But shit that sounds very wrong right now.

Considering that you live with a native Russian Speaker, I am surprised that you are not far better than this! You have the greatest opportunity to speak the language but have to resort to Duolingo and other online lessons!

She should have started basic.. and moved up to see your ability

Русский сложный язык , даже я как носитель , делаю ошибки , ох уж эти запятые

Ох щас Анне все русские девки обзавидуются

Your 'pro tip' is learn Cyrillic alphabet..? I would call learning the alphabet 'non-negotiable tip'..

I cannot stand Duolingo. It does nothing to try to get you fluency. It merely hooks you emotionally by telling you how well you are doing, when it is probably not true. Anything said in Russian and a lot of other languages could end up being translated five different ways, based on context, the level of English that you prefer to speak: low brow, colloquial, every day or erudite. And then there is the old-fashioned speech commonly spoken back in the 1800s, which is useless for tourists, but vitally important for someone trying to read the Russian classics. Does Duolingo care? No, it just gives you a precious metal: diamond, pearl, gold, silver etc.

Лучше бы прогресс показал. Похоже ты дальше алфавита не пошел)

Boring !!

I finished the Russian Duolingo course to legendary crowns level in just over 2 years. In terms of XP that is >100,000 xp each year. Living with a native speaker you should be far more advanced.

What we have learned here. ... You can fail Russian, but still smash Russian birds. ... reassuring.

This is exactly how it goes. It's not fake or scripted and you are speaking fluent Russian in 5 mins. Even when she says "c'mon you know this" . For some reason Russian girlfriends think you are playing dumb when in truth you have no idea what the answer is...🤦‍♂️ The most powerful advantage is that you are hearing the language in the native country everyday!

Seriously, Duolingo os ok for some support, but really not a good instructional tool for understanding the mechanics of the language.