Yes, I decided to study Russian in addition to Chinese because it gave my brain a rest from trying to learn all of the characters. Despite the grammar, I still find it easier than Chinese. Where are you teaching? And thanks for watching!
@@stevenslanguagevlog Just private online tutoring, nothing big really. I am a bit warry of the fact that your Russian teacher crams grammar with you. Not in terms of it being wrong. No. Your relaxing with Russian case system says a lot about long-term difficulty of the Chinese language 😅 I gave up Japanese after 6 months of 4-8 hours of daily studying, so now I am more compasionate to myself with Chinese. Not more than 10 new words a day, I said to myself. But your taking rest by cramming Russian grammar is on another level 💪
The class only runs 30 min and consists of 10 min conversational before moving onto 20 min focused grammar prep. I need it! Besides vocab, I have trouble declining nouns and adjectives properly so I looked for a teacher who wouldn't mind just going through a grammar book with me. Japanese is similar to Chinese in that you need to spend a lot of time with the characters, but differs in that it has three "alphabets" you can use. I spent years (and still do) writing out characters and using flashcards every days. It's not impossible, it just takes a long time and, as and adult, you generally have other things to worry about other than character flashcards. It also helps that I'm in China where I'm pushed to use it in my daily life as it makes things easier. When I moved over to the Russian language, I found the same study methods I had for Chinese weren't working and needed to approach the language in a different manner, and that was more through conversational and strictly grammar practice.
@@stevenslanguagevlog yeah, I wonder how people learn how to decline. Adjectives and nouns change with number and case, verbs follow nouns and are affected by tenses and there are erm... perfected verbs (no idea how it is called haha). We have, what, six cases, three genders, singular and plural. If I were to learn Russian from scratch I would break it into case-number-gender- chunks and make anki cards with phrases only (not separate words) that fit that chunk of relations. I would break that collection into subdecks, so the contexts do not get mixed. This will hopefully create a steady flow of phrases in the same context. Subject is always in именительный case, only objects are influenced. Verb depends on subject. Adj depend on its noun. So... I would prolly want to have cards with phrass like (adj+n)+v+(adj+n) where the first noun is subject in именительный падеж but in different genders and number, then you get its action followed by an object in various cases, genders etc. Actually sounds pretty systematic when I think about it and potentially could build up language intuition. I think that creation of such deck could be automated to some extend considering amount of declension tables available in wiktionary for different words. I think wiktionary can be easely parsed. Haha, sounds like a school project
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Yes, I decided to study Russian in addition to Chinese because it gave my brain a rest from trying to learn all of the characters. Despite the grammar, I still find it easier than Chinese. Where are you teaching?
And thanks for watching!
@@stevenslanguagevlog Just private online tutoring, nothing big really.
I am a bit warry of the fact that your Russian teacher crams grammar with you. Not in terms of it being wrong. No. Your relaxing with Russian case system says a lot about long-term difficulty of the Chinese language 😅
I gave up Japanese after 6 months of 4-8 hours of daily studying, so now I am more compasionate to myself with Chinese. Not more than 10 new words a day, I said to myself. But your taking rest by cramming Russian grammar is on another level 💪
The class only runs 30 min and consists of 10 min conversational before moving onto 20 min focused grammar prep. I need it! Besides vocab, I have trouble declining nouns and adjectives properly so I looked for a teacher who wouldn't mind just going through a grammar book with me.
Japanese is similar to Chinese in that you need to spend a lot of time with the characters, but differs in that it has three "alphabets" you can use. I spent years (and still do) writing out characters and using flashcards every days. It's not impossible, it just takes a long time and, as and adult, you generally have other things to worry about other than character flashcards. It also helps that I'm in China where I'm pushed to use it in my daily life as it makes things easier.
When I moved over to the Russian language, I found the same study methods I had for Chinese weren't working and needed to approach the language in a different manner, and that was more through conversational and strictly grammar practice.
@@stevenslanguagevlog yeah, I wonder how people learn how to decline. Adjectives and nouns change with number and case, verbs follow nouns and are affected by tenses and there are erm... perfected verbs (no idea how it is called haha). We have, what, six cases, three genders, singular and plural.
If I were to learn Russian from scratch I would break it into case-number-gender- chunks and make anki cards with phrases only (not separate words) that fit that chunk of relations. I would break that collection into subdecks, so the contexts do not get mixed. This will hopefully create a steady flow of phrases in the same context.
Subject is always in именительный case, only objects are influenced. Verb depends on subject. Adj depend on its noun.
So... I would prolly want to have cards with phrass like (adj+n)+v+(adj+n) where the first noun is subject in именительный падеж but in different genders and number, then you get its action followed by an object in various cases, genders etc.
Actually sounds pretty systematic when I think about it and potentially could build up language intuition.
I think that creation of such deck could be automated to some extend considering amount of declension tables available in wiktionary for different words. I think wiktionary can be easely parsed.
Haha, sounds like a school project
as a follow up, wondering if you have any sources to practice this online? Eg, a website for Russian conjugations and declensions?