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Russian Mission: One month as a new independent language learner
For the last month and a little bit more I have been studying Russian as my first independently studied foreign language. It is the first I want to achieve fluency in, before I start moving on to another language. I have given myself 3 months to reach conversational fluency, because that coincides with the Polyglot Berlin conference.
How to Learn the Cyrillic Alphabet for Russian in no time
How to learn the Cyrillic alphabet is one of the challenges I faced when I started to learn Russian. This post is my complete walk through on how I did it in very little time using mnemonics.
What is fluency in a foreign language?
To me, the question: “what is fluency?” has always been quite interesting. Before I can even begin to try and obtain ‘fluency' in ANY language, it is important to define exactly what that means to me.