Plan
This plan applies to the ongoing project of learning Russian. Its end is set to the end of my one year study program in Russian at the university of Tromsø, that is about June 2025.
Tools and materials
- Anki: as always
- Beeminder: for commitment
- Glossika: extra audio input
- Spanish-Russian beginners book
- Comprehensive Russian Grammar [CRG]
- Short Stories in Russian for Beginners
- various other online sources
Goals
- General, systematic overview of all aspects of grammar and structure
- Working vocabulary of about 3000 words, foucus on frequency and domains of personal interest
- Complete university course
- Complete Spanish-Russian textbook
- Complete Short Stories book
- Glossika: 3000 sentences
Specific implementation: metrics
Goals to uphold on average over time:
- Two Glossika sessions a day
- Anki reviews every day
- Anki 10 new words a day
Grammar
- Regular noun declensions
- to memorise the three declension classes in Russian
- to memorise typical exceptions
- to memorise special degenerate cases: locative and partive
- cursory overview of declension stress patterns
- cursory overview over case usage
- Memorise Conjunctions
- Co-ordinating
- Sub-ordinating
- Memorise particles
- Memorise prepositions and case usage
- Common pronouns
- Demonstrative adjectives and the like
- Adjective declension
- Adjective long/short form
- Adjective comparison
- Number system overview
- Verb conjugation
- Verbs of motion
- Verb aspect
- Verb participles
- Common verbial constructions
- Adverbs, use and construction