I am a 70 year old man, started learning russian 3 years ago with the normal text books but found them confusing, my friend who is from belarus suggested childrens books , which take you right to basics , i found this really usefull and would suggest it , espescially for the mature person like myself .I have just found your channel and find it very pleasant to view, and very informative. Thank you for your hard work. By the way i am leaving for Moscow tomorrow and looking forward to seeing some amazing things and try to use my russian voice.
Keep it up, my friend, I started 8 months ago at 68yrs. Went to evening classes and was sat with teenagers and young people. Great. I'm from Manchester but have lived in germany for over 40yrs. I also have russian comics, and some of those are not easy.
@@dustyfun5944 Auch Hi, ja ich spreche auch Deutsch (aber nicht fehlerfrei). Habe auch kurz in Belgien gelebt und gearbeitet, war aber nichts besonders dort, Kultur und Mentalität haben mir nicht zugesagt. Einen schönen Abend wünsche ich Dir.
Agreed. If I could start my Russian studies from the beginning, I would concentrate a lot more on listening. Understanding is so much more impt than speaking. If I understand 100%, but speak 35%, we can have a good conversation, as I can use my limited vocab to make my point. Speaking 100%, but understanding 35%?...............not a good conversation. . So many YT touts preach "speak immediately". Unnatural in my opinion. A baby speaks when ready, after 1000's of hours of input. I realize that sentences come out of my mouth smoothly, after I heard them MANY times. Forcing them is unnatural and its a confidence killer. . I recently changed my approach to about 70% listening. Its a long road.....especially with Russian....sigh....
I am 73 urs old and started learning Russian 1 year ago. I’ve made these mistakes and realized how much time I wasted. Also, as you had said in another video, I had to learn to relax in order to listen and learn better. Thanks for all of your videos.
I find that the slow Russian videos are very helpful for me now. I ignore the subtitles, and focus on the things and situations around as you describe them. I just hope to get better every day. Bolshoye spaciba!
The one good argument I’ve heard for listening to Russian that’s over your level (like news or movies) is to get a sense of how the languages sounds, to listen to the prosody, and intonation. Stuff like that. It’s not useful for learning words or grammar obviously so I don’t use it as a primary means of language acquisition but occasionally it’s fun to put on a movie I enjoy in Russian so I can listen to it passively and absorb the sounds of the language.
I love listening to pop music. At first it is a noise where I can barely distinguish between one word and the next - let alone what it means. And then gradually over the course of weeks and months it slowly becomes clearer and clearer. It is very rewarding.
All three of your points I will take to heart and remember while I'm learning Russian. Thanks for the slow Russian videos...with them I will practice my listening skills even more.
I find watching films or shows helpful because even though I may only understand 15% of the words, the actions help me understand at least 60% of what’s truly going on. And I then end up hearing words and phrases repeat that I can associate with actions on screen. A second run through with English subtitles adds another level of understanding as well. Overall, I grew my vocabulary and listening skills so much this way. Unfortunately there’s not a lot of Russian films that interest me that’s available where I live.
I am Brazilian and I have a hard time understanding the natives, but their English is very easy to understand. Thanks for your wonderful videos. Пака Пака
I am 59 years old and my lady is from Ukraine. She only speaks Russian and I’ve been in this learning stage for 3 years. Maybe it’s time for me to start the children’s books so as to advance quicker. I can speak some basic things and have about 750 words in my vocabulary but in 3 years I feel I should be more advanced, I will get some children’s books now. Thanks Daria.
excellent explanation! for me, i keep russian news or movies on in the background a lot of the time. it's amazing how it gets into your brain. there's one movie i watch over and over ночной гость and i use it to gauge my listening skills. little by little i am understanding more and more. i have a long way to go, but i do notice that i know/understand more now than i did a year ago. your lessons are great. thanks for your work and effort!
Youre completely right. I think that people just feel like they are better and they know everything. Yet they struggle to learn because they are jumping into expertise when they know nothing about it. I think youre doing a great job. We need more people like you on this earth.
The advice in your videos is really great, thanks! :) I struggled for a long time (years), trying to listen to material that was too difficult for me, and almost gave up completely. A few months ago I kind of re-started, by concentrating on audio I could already _mostly_ understand (rather than anything I found a bit toooo difficult), plus watching videos for very small native Russian children (e.g. the Малышарики channel on UA-cam is excellent - it focuses on words and meaning). Plus lots of re-watching and re-listening. The results have been really encouraging and I feel enthusiastic again! :) So yes, I agree - if you push yourself a little bit, but not to the point of frustration and self-doubt, you'll make better progress over the long term :)
Я лайк слушаю муз, снова и снова. Я не формально студент. Если я слушаю и не понимаю, это сйли (I can't spell seelee) интересно с фокус. Русский язык это муз, гаварел или поёотел. (Almost no grammar) Literally learning from music videos I keep liking and you, давай! With passion впероёд 😍 🇷🇺💞
You are right Daria. You have to crawl before you walk. I think I jumped ahead, instead of listening to children songs, I am listening to Ani Lorak. But, when I listen to her songs, I look up the Russian/English lyrics. And you have a good point about native speakers not fully understanding there own language. Here in the United States I don't understand some songs on the radio, and I have to look up the lyrics to know what they are singing.
I never believed in intimidating people or telling them they don't understand. I think people understand perfectly....they just don't want to know that they understand it.
Great advice! And I recently discovered your Russian with Stories podcasts. They are very simple yet interactive. Super helpful even though I’m only 10 weeks into learning Russian. I am able to follow most of the stories I have listened to so far. Thank you!
Excellent advice. I have a very good understanding of English, Spanish and French, but Russian, German and Czech had been till recently my stumbling blocks. Listening to audio I couldn't understand was frustrating and I nearly gave up. Then I discovered the concept of "comprehensible input", what you explained... listening to things that I can understand (either slow speech or speech that uses simple words). Thanks to you, Daria, I am now on track to gradually being able to listen to audio at my level. I now have the Motivation to keep going. Большое спасибо!
Hi Daria, I started learning Russian 3 months ago. Everything has started,because I was having injury of a back and I had to find a new hobby. For the record I'm Polish ,but I live in Manchester for 4 years that's way I developed my English level to B2/C1. What is the most important I fallen in love with прекрасный Русский язык
Thank you for the excellent advice. Your first and last recommendation I was already into, but the second recommendation is new to me. Now I will do this one too. Thank you. I am 76, started a year ago, and I am making good progress. It is fun, challenging yes, and fun as well.
Three good pieces of advice. However, what do you think of this way of learning a foreign language: listen several times to the unknown text even if you don't understand it. You will then get used to the way the language is used from a native speaker. Second, try to read the text together with the listening Iprovided you have listened to the text several times without reading the text. Then work with the text, find out the meaning and some of the central grammar, and then listen again without looking at the text. It is the way the world known Linguagphone courses suggest you do: Listen several times, read the text while listening several times, work out the text's meaning and then listen again without the text. It worked for me in other languages, so it might work for you too.
I want to share my experiences with Chinese language, Chinese listening is the most hard part in Chinese because Chinese language has four tones and fifth one is light one , China has a lot of local languages very different from the formal language and a lot of Chinese people have very weird and difficult accent , after six years of being a translator and interpreter I still find difficulties because of the accent issue which made me can't guess the word because it was pronounced very far from usual, the most important method for learning for intermediate level is movies tv series with subtitles songs lyrics and reading news , practicing with native speakers for me I can talk more than 3 hours with no stop in Chinese , never give up on learning a language that needs a lot of patience.
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Well, regarding listening and reading: I prefer to listen first to see if I understand something. First I listen 2 or 3 times without reading to see how much I'm able to understand. And then it's when I start reading with the audio, paying attention to the pronunciation and the words I didn't get at first. For me it works that way because it reinforces the words I understood without reading. Normally I can understand approximately 70% of what a Russian native speaker says provided that he/she isn't speaking way too fast
Daria, You give great advice, I am only up to lesson eight [8] but as you suggest revision is important and it is amazing what comes from revision and listening. Thank you.
Great advice. My Russian language reading skills are better than my listening skills. I just tried one of your techniques about reading the text first, and then listening, and it really helped. I listen to children's audio books with accompanying text, but now I will stop reading while I listen. And, I will stop trying to understand Russian language news broadcasts as that is frustrating.
Listening and reading. I go through a short text that I can mostly understand. I'll also make SRS flash cards on my phone of phrases or things that I didn't understand. After a few reads I listen to all these short texts or stories in a playlist. For me I think the key is listening A LOT. I listen to them almost everyday. After a while it becomes more and more clear, plus the SRS flash cards help me too. Thanks for the video.
Daria, your course is so much fun. I will stick with you as much as my free time will permit. Thank you. By the way...I love the way you end each lesson...bye, bye.
Another great video! ... I listen to lots of music, but it's the same songs that I like - ones that were sent to me by friends on VK. I read the tekct and even translate it - though the online translators are much better when used line by line - then compiling your own translation to pair with the tekct itself. ...Movies are too much for me - so I focus on learning how to speak small phrases, and stuff to make the guys laugh. I play a Russian mod for Arma 3 online - on a server with 60 - 120 people from my community, who all speak Russian, and many of them speak English to some extent as well. Add to that - I play Arma 3 по Русски so I get to see names of items and subjects - then listen to how people talk about it. In addition to books and videos, I keep a notebook where I write in Russian every day, new words and phrases - which helps me remember what I learn. It's weird and not really optimal - but I want to learn to speak comfortably with people in real social situations. VK and my community help me learn how to do some of that! You as well Daria, you are a wonderful teacher - and always have something interesting to say or to share, СПАСИБО БОЛЬШОЕ!!!
"Movies are too much for me - so I focus on learning how to speak small phrases, and stuff to make the guys laugh." If it's a subject that's really interesting then it's not so much work as fun. I live in a part of Mexico pretty close to the part of the US border. Some guys in Mexico speak English quite well - a lot of the time it's because they got addicted to US baseball and grew up watching the San Diego Padre's. Once I found TV programs produced in Mexico I started making more progress and other people here remarked on it. Just doing Netflix style binging on different shows in Spanish helped because I forgot I was even listening to so much Spanish - first couple time with English subtitles, then just Spanish subtitles. TV shows, movies and sports are some of the best ways to pick up the everyday phrases, types of humor, cultural references, differences between how guys speak with each other on a sports team or in a bar and how they speak with women etc. It just almost gets to be second nature to hear the sound world of that language and different ways those speakers have of saying things that are in that culture - just like in English you hear so many references to football and baseball metaphors like hitting a home run, reaching the finish line - things would be completely confusing to someone from a different country.
I actually find that listening to music an reading the words helps me. It's a natural mnemonic, and there truly is nothing worse than having a song in your head to which you don't know the words. It's like mnemonic learning paired with a really annoying incentive. True you can't just read it, but listen again and again, when you feel comfortable that you have learned the words (an aside, there's a vremya I steklo song and the lyric is "знай что ангелы не спать" but when I 1st heard it I swear I heard "смешно ангелы не спать"🤣 I've chosen my inaccurate translation)
The question that I never get an answer to is "What level do you have to get to in order to be considered "fluent" As a native English speaker there are lots of words I do not understand. Based on tests I have an above average vocabulary and there are still thousands of words I do not know. Many are in specific fields like medicine or finance but your point is well taken. How can we expect to know every word in a second or third language when we don't know every word in our native language? BTW I appreciate your work here, thank you.
I guess usually people mean that they want to communicate in some foreign language like native speakers:) doesn't mean that they should know all the words and understand all the grammar rules
Hi! I must contradict your statements. I learnt understandig swedish completly by watching swedish TV. In the begining I understood almost nothing. And suddenly I understood almost everything. Reading and liistening simultanously is a great method to build a link between the spoken word (how language is pronounced) and the typeface. After a while you see the writen words and hear how they sound internally. Btw. I had 6 or 7 years russian in skool, but I never understood someone speaking russian. I would like to learn understanding russian like I learnt understanding swedish, but I don´t know if the russian TV is propaganda or not (Sorry, I´m prejudiced.).
Thank you for publishing these videos, even though I have studied written Russian a lot I've always had difficulties understanding Russian movies like Александр Невский, Иван Грозный, Андрей Рублев, Сталкер even though they are so easy to pull up on UA-cam nowadays - wonderful. Film students know Eisenstein's "Potemkin" but the great films by Eisenstein and Tarkovsky aren't nearly as well know, except maybe the unforgettable music scoring by Profofiev in Alexander Nevsky. Even though the history in these films isn't accurate they were made under difficult circumstances. Knowing some things about Russian history, especially its centuries of invasions from Central Asia and also other neighbor countries like Sweden and Poland can help you understand some things about the Russian world view - one thing being how important the Soviet Union was in defeating Nazi Germany. I never knew quite how to get the Russian "L" sound until now, the Russian "R" sound is harder to get right but I finally can pronounce basic words like Здравствуйте - you can't get the combined consonants out unless you roll the "R."
Got the point. But how to enrich vocabulary if we stick to what we already know? Native toddlers learn first by listening, but I don't think it's the same process with adults... Thanks a lot for the video. I always appreciate your efforts.
I am finally able to discern where one word ends and the following begins. I have been doing more reading and translating than listening, but that I am changing, in no small part to your channel.
Daria (привет) я все еше чувствую то же самое спасбою. I still feel the same way, Thank you. Your lessons helped me a lot to get through C O V I D. Thank you very much.
Early Russian-learners! I'm playing Age of Empires III, as the Russian civilization. All the commands are in Russian, just so I can get used to hearing Russian.
I completely agree with you. I have no shame in reading kids books. Speaking of which, any recomendations on which books are great for first time reading?
I like watching Russian movies and cartoons, even if I don’t understand everything I can usually get the gist by what is happening, plus there’s quite a few really good Russian TV series that are on UA-cam, those also have subtitles but I don’t always pay attention to the subtitles. Thanks for the advice and I hope I’m able to implement it properly! Spasibo!
It is good to listen to what we are familiar with but to listen to harder conversations to familiarize self with new patterns of vocabulary and phrases is a good idea as well. It's a matter of listening to the pulses in the conversation. It is like how a musician hears. Groups of notes in chords or groups of words and their sounds in sentences. It is definitely about familiarization. And then it is a matter of how do we use what we have become familiar with?
Daria, you said you don't always understand what you hear in Russian. It's that way in English too. I don't always understand words that I hear in the background or, especially, in songs. I have taken transcription courses and there are always words that just cannot be understood no matter how many times one listens to them.
Would you recommend as not just listening but learning, to listen to Russian with Russian subtitles to read? I find it's most enjoyable that way to practice, but I understand it takes away from the listening exercise
I practise russian listening on Instagram live streams and periscope. It is usually just basic, normal day to day talk. Sometimes difficult to understand since they are not professional speakers, so proper pronaunciation hinders. But i dont experience the hassle of finding other stuff online ( i dont even know where i'd start).
VK - it's casual and informal at times as well but it has helped me meet many people who really want to practice English. Highly recommend that if you are using periscope ffs
I agree that when learning a new language it's best to start simple and then go escalating from the bottom up provided you complete each level successfully and yes, trying to read Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy within the first two years would be completely counter-effective. Still, sending each and every kind of learner to toddler's and children material comes off as a tad patronising and condescending. I mean, other languages have basic learning material suited to learners of all ages, why would Russian or any other language be any different?
Good wisdom. Thank you for posting. I listen to Russian radio while driving but I only catch the words that I already know. It does little to help my progress. I like the idea to listen to children's books. Do you have any links to start? Thank you.
I am a 70 year old man, started learning russian 3 years ago with the normal text books but found them confusing, my friend who is from belarus suggested childrens books , which take you right to basics , i found this really usefull and would suggest it , espescially for the mature person like myself .I have just found your channel and find it very pleasant to view, and very informative. Thank you for your hard work. By the way i am leaving for Moscow tomorrow and looking forward to seeing some amazing things and try to use my russian voice.
I hope you like Moscow:))
Keep it up, my friend, I started 8 months ago at 68yrs. Went to evening classes and was sat with teenagers and young people. Great.
I'm from Manchester but have lived in germany for over 40yrs. I also have russian comics, and some of those are not easy.
@@grahamshepherd9305 Hi Graham, dann sprichst du wohl auch Deutsch, oder? Wo hast du denn gelebt?
@@dustyfun5944 Auch Hi, ja ich spreche auch Deutsch (aber nicht fehlerfrei). Habe auch kurz in Belgien gelebt und gearbeitet, war aber nichts besonders dort, Kultur und Mentalität haben mir nicht zugesagt. Einen schönen Abend wünsche ich Dir.
Agreed. If I could start my Russian studies from the beginning, I would concentrate a lot more on listening. Understanding is so much more impt than speaking. If I understand 100%, but speak 35%, we can have a good conversation, as I can use my limited vocab to make my point. Speaking 100%, but understanding 35%?...............not a good conversation.
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So many YT touts preach "speak immediately". Unnatural in my opinion. A baby speaks when ready, after 1000's of hours of input. I realize that sentences come out of my mouth smoothly, after I heard them MANY times. Forcing them is unnatural and its a confidence killer.
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I recently changed my approach to about 70% listening. Its a long road.....especially with Russian....sigh....
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I am 73 urs old and started learning Russian 1 year ago. I’ve made these mistakes and realized how much time I wasted. Also, as you had said in another video, I had to learn to relax in order to listen and learn better. Thanks for all of your videos.
I find that the slow Russian videos are very helpful for me now. I ignore the subtitles, and focus on the things and situations around as you describe them. I just hope to get better every day. Bolshoye spaciba!
I’m new here and learning Ukraine skills your video helps me to much to learn skills
Thank you for the information and advice. I have made 2 of those mistakes in the past.
Thank you so much for this video Dariya, really it was so important
The one good argument I’ve heard for listening to Russian that’s over your level (like news or movies) is to get a sense of how the languages sounds, to listen to the prosody, and intonation. Stuff like that. It’s not useful for learning words or grammar obviously so I don’t use it as a primary means of language acquisition but occasionally it’s fun to put on a movie I enjoy in Russian so I can listen to it passively and absorb the sounds of the language.
I love listening to pop music. At first it is a noise where I can barely distinguish between one word and the next - let alone what it means. And then gradually over the course of weeks and months it slowly becomes clearer and clearer. It is very rewarding.
Your English is so good! Even the idioms!
All three of your points I will take to heart and remember while I'm learning Russian. Thanks for the slow Russian videos...with them I will practice my listening skills even more.
you're most welcome, I'm happy to help:)
I find watching films or shows helpful because even though I may only understand 15% of the words, the actions help me understand at least 60% of what’s truly going on. And I then end up hearing words and phrases repeat that I can associate with actions on screen. A second run through with English subtitles adds another level of understanding as well. Overall, I grew my vocabulary and listening skills so much this way. Unfortunately there’s not a lot of Russian films that interest me that’s available where I live.
Thank you for the counseling. Very down to earth and practical.
I really like your slow Russian videos, when listening to normal speed its still too hard. Thank you for your amazing teaching of Russian.
Боже как же это прикольно, когда изучают твой язык!)
I am Brazilian and I have a hard time understanding the natives, but their English is very easy to understand. Thanks for your wonderful videos. Пака Пака
Thank you very much:)
I am 59 years old and my lady is from Ukraine. She only speaks Russian and I’ve been in this learning stage for 3 years. Maybe it’s time for me to start the children’s books so as to advance quicker. I can speak some basic things and have about 750 words in my vocabulary but in 3 years I feel I should be more advanced, I will get some children’s books now. Thanks Daria.
excellent explanation! for me, i keep russian news or movies on in the background a lot of the time. it's amazing how it gets into your brain. there's one movie i watch over and over ночной гость and i use it to gauge my listening skills. little by little i am understanding more and more. i have a long way to go, but i do notice that i know/understand more now than i did a year ago. your lessons are great. thanks for your work and effort!
I'm guilty of all three. Thank you for putting me back on track
Me too
Youre completely right. I think that people just feel like they are better and they know everything. Yet they struggle to learn because they are jumping into expertise when they know nothing about it. I think youre doing a great job. We need more people like you on this earth.
I love the way you teach
It's very helpful
The advice in your videos is really great, thanks! :) I struggled for a long time (years), trying to listen to material that was too difficult for me, and almost gave up completely. A few months ago I kind of re-started, by concentrating on audio I could already _mostly_ understand (rather than anything I found a bit toooo difficult), plus watching videos for very small native Russian children (e.g. the Малышарики channel on UA-cam is excellent - it focuses on words and meaning). Plus lots of re-watching and re-listening. The results have been really encouraging and I feel enthusiastic again! :)
So yes, I agree - if you push yourself a little bit, but not to the point of frustration and self-doubt, you'll make better progress over the long term :)
omg I love Малышарики:)
Я лайк слушаю муз, снова и снова. Я не формально студент. Если я слушаю и не понимаю, это сйли (I can't spell seelee) интересно с фокус. Русский язык это муз, гаварел или поёотел. (Almost no grammar) Literally learning from music videos I keep liking and you, давай! With passion впероёд 😍 🇷🇺💞
Thats great your advise .thank you so much
You are right Daria. You have to crawl before you walk. I think I jumped ahead, instead of listening to children songs, I am listening to Ani Lorak. But, when I listen to her songs, I look up the Russian/English lyrics. And you have a good point about native speakers not fully understanding there own language. Here in the United States I don't understand some songs on the radio, and I have to look up the lyrics to know what they are singing.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Thank you for this very useful explanation.
Спасибо за это видео)очень помогает тренировать восприятие на английском на слух
хаха, спасибо:))
Учу с помощью твоих видио английский 🤗🤗🤗
I never believed in intimidating people or telling them they don't understand. I think people understand perfectly....they just don't want to know that they understand it.
That's so true! I'm French, and most of the time, I don't understand the lyrics of French songs x)
Great advice! And I recently discovered your Russian with Stories podcasts. They are very simple yet interactive. Super helpful even though I’m only 10 weeks into learning Russian. I am able to follow most of the stories I have listened to so far. Thank you!
Thank you for your tips! I enjoy your videos.
I memorize the bible verses. It helps to learn russian when hearing literature I already have memorized.
Do you have a bilingual and transliterated Bible ? Spassiba Bill UK
Excellent advice. I have a very good understanding of English, Spanish and French, but Russian, German and Czech had been till recently my stumbling blocks. Listening to audio I couldn't understand was frustrating and I nearly gave up. Then I discovered the concept of "comprehensible input", what you explained... listening to things that I can understand (either slow speech or speech that uses simple words).
Thanks to you, Daria, I am now on track to gradually being able to listen to audio at my level. I now have the Motivation to keep going. Большое спасибо!
Hi Daria,
I started learning Russian 3 months ago.
Everything has started,because I was having injury of a back and I had to find a new hobby. For the record I'm Polish ,but I live in Manchester for 4 years that's way I developed my English level to B2/C1.
What is the most important I fallen in love with прекрасный Русский язык
Thank you for the excellent advice. Your first and last recommendation I was already into, but the second recommendation is new to me. Now I will do this one too. Thank you. I am 76, started a year ago, and I am making good progress. It is fun, challenging yes, and fun as well.
Three good pieces of advice. However, what do you think of this way of learning a foreign language: listen several times to the unknown text even if you don't understand it. You will then get used to the way the language is used from a native speaker. Second, try to read the text together with the listening Iprovided you have listened to the text several times without reading the text. Then work with the text, find out the meaning and some of the central grammar, and then listen again without looking at the text.
It is the way the world known Linguagphone courses suggest you do: Listen several times, read the text while listening several times, work out the text's meaning and then listen again without the text. It worked for me in other languages, so it might work for you too.
Thank you.Your videos help me to learn not only Russian but also English :) I understand both of them but I can't speak properly-_-
I want to share my experiences with Chinese language, Chinese listening is the most hard part in Chinese because Chinese language has four tones and fifth one is light one , China has a lot of local languages very different from the formal language and a lot of Chinese people have very weird and difficult accent , after six years of being a translator and interpreter I still find difficulties because of the accent issue which made me can't guess the word because it was pronounced very far from usual, the most important method for learning for intermediate level is movies tv series with subtitles songs lyrics and reading news , practicing with native speakers for me I can talk more than 3 hours with no stop in Chinese , never give up on learning a language that needs a lot of patience.
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I think your advice is very helpful! Thank you for giving it
Thank you:)
How inspiring video for every language (y)
Thank you, I’m beginner
Спасибо огромное))!! очень полезное видео!!
The one about [not] reading and listening is great. This is also why watching subtitled movies is no good for language learning.
Well, regarding listening and reading: I prefer to listen first to see if I understand something. First I listen 2 or 3 times without reading to see how much I'm able to understand. And then it's when I start reading with the audio, paying attention to the pronunciation and the words I didn't get at first. For me it works that way because it reinforces the words I understood without reading. Normally I can understand approximately 70% of what a Russian native speaker says provided that he/she isn't speaking way too fast
Я просто восхищаюсь методами и способом, которым вы преподносите информацию!
это и есть профессионализм :)
Thanks a lot for this video
огромное спасибо:)
Daria, You give great advice, I am only up to lesson eight [8] but as you suggest revision is important and it is amazing what comes from revision and listening. Thank you.
I have made all those mistakes. Thank you for the advice.
Great advice. My Russian language reading skills are better than my listening skills. I just tried one of your techniques about reading the text first, and then listening, and it really helped. I listen to children's audio books with accompanying text, but now I will stop reading while I listen. And, I will stop trying to understand Russian language news broadcasts as that is frustrating.
Listening and reading. I go through a short text that I can mostly understand. I'll also make SRS flash cards on my phone of phrases or things that I didn't understand. After a few reads I listen to all these short texts or stories in a playlist. For me I think the key is listening A LOT. I listen to them almost everyday. After a while it becomes more and more clear, plus the SRS flash cards help me too.
Thanks for the video.
I can sing along to Полюшка Поле, now I can understand some of the sentences and words in the song when someone says it.
great:)
Daria, your course is so much fun. I will stick with you as much as my free time will permit. Thank you. By the way...I love the way you end each lesson...bye, bye.
thank you Robert:))
Another great video! ... I listen to lots of music, but it's the same songs that I like - ones that were sent to me by friends on VK. I read the tekct and even translate it - though the online translators are much better when used line by line - then compiling your own translation to pair with the tekct itself. ...Movies are too much for me - so I focus on learning how to speak small phrases, and stuff to make the guys laugh. I play a Russian mod for Arma 3 online - on a server with 60 - 120 people from my community, who all speak Russian, and many of them speak English to some extent as well. Add to that - I play Arma 3 по Русски so I get to see names of items and subjects - then listen to how people talk about it. In addition to books and videos, I keep a notebook where I write in Russian every day, new words and phrases - which helps me remember what I learn. It's weird and not really optimal - but I want to learn to speak comfortably with people in real social situations. VK and my community help me learn how to do some of that! You as well Daria, you are a wonderful teacher - and always have something interesting to say or to share, СПАСИБО БОЛЬШОЕ!!!
"Movies are too much for me - so I focus on learning how to speak small phrases, and stuff to make the guys laugh."
If it's a subject that's really interesting then it's not so much work as fun. I live in a part of Mexico pretty close to the part of the US border. Some guys in Mexico speak English quite well - a lot of the time it's because they got addicted to US baseball and grew up watching the San Diego Padre's.
Once I found TV programs produced in Mexico I started making more progress and other people here remarked on it.
Just doing Netflix style binging on different shows in Spanish helped because I forgot I was even listening to so much Spanish - first couple time with English subtitles, then just Spanish subtitles.
TV shows, movies and sports are some of the best ways to pick up the everyday phrases, types of humor, cultural references, differences between how guys speak with each other on a sports team or in a bar and how they speak with women etc.
It just almost gets to be second nature to hear the sound world of that language and different ways those speakers have of saying things that are in that culture - just like in English you hear so many references to football and baseball metaphors like hitting a home run, reaching the finish line - things would be completely confusing to someone from a different country.
I actually find that listening to music an reading the words helps me. It's a natural mnemonic, and there truly is nothing worse than having a song in your head to which you don't know the words. It's like mnemonic learning paired with a really annoying incentive. True you can't just read it, but listen again and again, when you feel comfortable that you have learned the words (an aside, there's a vremya I steklo song and the lyric is "знай что ангелы не спать" but when I 1st heard it I swear I heard "смешно ангелы не спать"🤣 I've chosen my inaccurate translation)
Я люблю слушать ваши видео. Я в тетьем курсе в университете и вы мне очень помогли!
Я очень рада:)
Joseph Ernst Мне нравится смотреть ваши видео. Я на третьем курсе университета и вы мне очень помогаете
Thank you for the videos, Daria! Some very good tips. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos!
thank you:)
Great tips. Thanks Daria!
The question that I never get an answer to is "What level do you have to get to in order to be considered "fluent" As a native English speaker there are lots of words I do not understand. Based on tests I have an above average vocabulary and there are still thousands of words I do not know. Many are in specific fields like medicine or finance but your point is well taken. How can we expect to know every word in a second or third language when we don't know every word in our native language? BTW I appreciate your work here, thank you.
I guess usually people mean that they want to communicate in some foreign language like native speakers:) doesn't mean that they should know all the words and understand all the grammar rules
Very wise advices. Thanks Daria.
Excellent advice. I totally agree with you.
Great guide video
Hi! I must contradict your statements. I learnt understandig swedish completly by watching swedish TV. In the begining I understood almost nothing. And suddenly I understood almost everything.
Reading and liistening simultanously is a great method to build a link between the spoken word (how language is pronounced) and the typeface. After a while you see the writen words and hear how they sound internally.
Btw. I had 6 or 7 years russian in skool, but I never understood someone speaking russian. I would like to learn understanding russian like I learnt understanding swedish, but I don´t know if the russian TV is propaganda or not (Sorry, I´m prejudiced.).
Thank you for publishing these videos, even though I have studied written Russian a lot I've always had difficulties understanding Russian movies like Александр Невский, Иван Грозный, Андрей Рублев, Сталкер even though they are so easy to pull up on UA-cam nowadays - wonderful.
Film students know Eisenstein's "Potemkin" but the great films by Eisenstein and Tarkovsky aren't nearly as well know, except maybe the unforgettable music scoring by Profofiev in Alexander Nevsky.
Even though the history in these films isn't accurate they were made under difficult circumstances. Knowing some things about Russian history, especially its centuries of invasions from Central Asia and also other neighbor countries like Sweden and Poland can help you understand some things about the Russian world view - one thing being how important the Soviet Union was in defeating Nazi Germany.
I never knew quite how to get the Russian "L" sound until now, the Russian "R" sound is harder to get right but I finally can pronounce basic words like Здравствуйте - you can't get the combined consonants out unless you roll the "R."
i like those tips. very good one. thank you so much.
thank you for watching:)
your cours are awesome ///thanx Daria
With the best! Spaciba
yes I can listen to whatever Константин Сёмин says
Got the point. But how to enrich vocabulary if we stick to what we already know? Native toddlers learn first by listening, but I don't think it's the same process with adults... Thanks a lot for the video. I always appreciate your efforts.
Good advice!! Love your videos!!
thank you:)
I am finally able to discern where one word ends and the following begins. I have been doing more reading and translating than listening, but that I am changing, in no small part to your channel.
Daria (привет) я все еше чувствую то же самое спасбою. I still feel the same way, Thank you. Your lessons helped me a lot to get through C O V I D. Thank you very much.
Thanks for the tips. Great point talking about shadow reading, I hate it.
Early Russian-learners!
I'm playing Age of Empires III, as the Russian civilization. All the commands are in Russian, just so I can get used to hearing Russian.
This is the way russians learn some english :) rush b :)
Thank you very much, you are the best! 👋
Thank you)
Очень полезные советы, спасибо большое!
и вам спасибо:)
I completely agree with you. I have no shame in reading kids books. Speaking of which, any recomendations on which books are great for first time reading?
I like Marshak books
you're great thanks alot keep on
I like watching Russian movies and cartoons, even if I don’t understand everything I can usually get the gist by what is happening, plus there’s quite a few really good Russian TV series that are on UA-cam, those also have subtitles but I don’t always pay attention to the subtitles. Thanks for the advice and I hope I’m able to implement it properly! Spasibo!
have you watched Кухня?:)
Real Russian Club I don’t think so, thank you for the recommendation! I’ll look for it when I have time to watch movies again! Spasibo!
It is good to listen to what we are familiar with but to listen to harder conversations to familiarize self with new patterns of vocabulary and phrases is a good idea as well. It's a matter of listening to the pulses in the conversation. It is like how a musician hears. Groups of notes in chords or groups of words and their sounds in sentences. It is definitely about familiarization. And then it is a matter of how do we use what we have become familiar with?
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Daria, you said you don't always understand what you hear in Russian. It's that way in English too. I don't always understand words that I hear in the background or, especially, in songs. I have taken transcription courses and there are always words that just cannot be understood no matter how many times one listens to them.
The complex rhetoric required for understanding political and cultural interest issues are advised by you to listen in English with Daria Narrating
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Would you recommend as not just listening but learning, to listen to Russian with Russian subtitles to read? I find it's most enjoyable that way to practice, but I understand it takes away from the listening exercise
A Russian soap opera,serial is better than a children's story ,it needs to be words I will use .
I practise russian listening on Instagram live streams and periscope. It is usually just basic, normal day to day talk. Sometimes difficult to understand since they are not professional speakers, so proper pronaunciation hinders. But i dont experience the hassle of finding other stuff online ( i dont even know where i'd start).
thanks for response:)
VK - it's casual and informal at times as well but it has helped me meet many people who really want to practice English. Highly recommend that if you are using periscope ffs
if u want to practice I can help you. I'm native speaker.
Hi Dasha songs films books TV shows political. Repetition. Awesome post
Send me a link for Verbs conjugation(1st and 2nd conjugations) kindly..
Thank you in advance!
I agree that when learning a new language it's best to start simple and then go escalating from the bottom up provided you complete each level successfully and yes, trying to read Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy within the first two years would be completely counter-effective. Still, sending each and every kind of learner to toddler's and children material comes off as a tad patronising and condescending. I mean, other languages have basic learning material suited to learners of all ages, why would Russian or any other language be any different?
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Good wisdom. Thank you for posting. I listen to Russian radio while driving but I only catch the words that I already know. It does little to help my progress. I like the idea to listen to children's books. Do you have any links to start?
Thank you.
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good, what about lesson about the difference between learning and brainwashing?
O pratice my listening with you haha