The more
difficult the language,
the sweeter the victory of speaking it.
Read about my thoughts on English-Russian Duolingo course in my YouTube video description.
English-Russian language challenge: one of the most difficult courses for me
Finally I am ready with the tree! I have also refreshed my knowledge by practising again so that all my lessons and topics have a wonderful shiny golden color.
Russian flueny after my Duolingo tree?
Your first question must be:
'Can you speak Russian now?'
or
'How fluent are you in Russian after completing this Duolingo course?'
Well, to be honest, first I am happy to be alive after finishing this course. I have not tried to talk in Russian yet, let alone some thoughts and words that haunt my mind. After refreshing my German-Russian tree, we will see. It will take about a week I think beside being an 'apartment-dog-dad'.
What are my improvements in Russian after finishing this Duolingo course?
For the picture to be whole, I tell you that I only do the lessons in Duolingo, I never read the grammatical rules included in them, This is because I want to break the habit of the nicely-working but for me a bit boring 'ol' skool' way of foreign language studies. I am testing it on myself how does relying solely on the Duolingo lessons make me improve in a language.
Some small things that make me happy when I do my Russian Duolingo lessons:
I am very happy when I am able to form a sentence from the jumbled words, It is also great that when I look at words, I can tell their meanings. What is even more crazy cool is that many times I do not have to slow the repetition of the sentence because I can understand what the voice says in Russian.
These are important improvements for me. I believe that these are the starting points of my future Russian-speaking. I do not want to measure my fluency as we cannot really talk about such now at this level. It would only discourage me. Okay, I am not the type who can easily (or in any way) could be discouraged, but I try to be as cunning as a fox in this field too, he-he. :)
I'd rather rejoice in the above mentioned small things as they make me feel more advanced than measuring Russian fluency.
Topics-list of the Duolingo English-Russian language tree:
Here is the list of the topics of
Duolingo’s English-Russian language course, in the exact order in which they
appear in the language tree:
Duolingo’s English-Russian language course, in the exact order in which they
appear in the language tree:
Basics1
The
Basics 2
Phrases
Idioms
Flirting
Accusative case
Introduction
Food 1
Animals 1
Plurals
Adjectives: Predicative 1
Not
Question 1
Present 1
Clothing
Nature 1
Possessive pronouns
Nominative pronouns
Negatives
Adverbs 1
Places 1
Stuff
Accusative pronouns
House 1
Conjunctions
People 1
Questions 2
Family 1
Accusative prepositions
Numbers 1
Food 2
Dative case
Money
Dative pronouns
Family 2
Dative prepositions
Body 1
Formal You
Some-
Shopping
Travel
Numbers 2
Colors
Imperative
Occupations 1
Prepositions
Materials
Numbers 3
Comparison
Qualifiers
House
Dates 1
Adjectives: Predicative 2
Location
Adjectives: Predicative 3
Places 2
Medical
Present 2
Dates 2
People 2
Future 1
Feelings
Time
Frequency
Verbs: modal
Adverbs 2
Nature 2
Genitive case
Occupations 2
Perfect 1
Adjectives: nominative 1
Adjectives: accusative
Adjectives: dative
Direction
Adjectives: nominative 2
Adverbs 3
Preterite
Weather
Objects
Communication 1
Future 2
Internet
Verbs: past perfect
Education
Verbs: future perfect
Phrases 2
Science
Verbs: reflexive
Communication 2
Business 1
Language
Abstract objects 1
Animals 2
Present 3
Body 2
Future 3
Spiritual
Verbs: conditional
Math
Banking
Abstract objects 2
Verbs: conditional perfect
Business 2
Future 4
Sports
Perfect 2
Arts
Passive voice
Religion
Politics 1
Adverbs 4
Abstract objects 3
Verbs: conditional 2
Philosophy
Present 4
Fantasy
Abstract objects 4
Relative pronouns
Classical music
Politics 2
Culture
The World
