May roundup — Russian

It's time for another roundup post! This month was rough. Priotities changed and I wasn't able to keep up the intensity of the previous months. However, I tried to do at least a little bit Russian every day to keep in touch with the language.

 

Anki

I reviewed cards from the decks "Russian Starter", "Ru15K" and my own sentence deck every day.

YouTube

I watched a few videos from Comprehensible Russian (Beginner 1 playlist). I also watched videos from Easy Russian and Сделай сам (a channel about how to build small houses).

Assimil

I reviewed older lessons and repeated a new lesson a few days before going on.

Метро 2033

I continued reading chapter 1. Some sentences are quite long and difficult to understand, even after looking up every unknown word. But it's fun to discover what is happening.

Stranger Things

I started watching episode 2.

Animal Crossing

I continued playing Animal Crossing in Russian.


As you can see, compared to the previous months my activity level is much lower. I'm okay with that. I had a lot of fun discovering the language so far but life changed a bit. Russian is not my priority right now so this is the last roundup post (for now). However, I'll continue documenting my activities for myself.

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