HOW I STUDIED RUSSIAN FROM SCRATCH + inside my workbooks & study material ( Russian subtitles)
Hi everyone!
Learning a foreign language always presents with challenges. In my case, I entered my language-learning journey quite blindly; not knowing the magnitude of difficulty that awaited me. With consistency and effort, I managed to reach a level of conversational Russian.
Despite the many compliments I have received on my progress, pronunciation and overall speech; I have still yet to learn a lot more.
Oddly, some comments have been made, labelling me as a liar and a cheat. Many people have expressed scepticism; believing I am actually a Russian girl pretending to be someone learning the language. Although it’s flattering, it is simply not true. While such comments unintendedly presented as compliments - I felt it was something I needed to address and so I hope that this video proves to you all that I really did learn the language from scratch.
Both of my parents only speak English. My grandfather was of Eastern European descent, but I never met him as he died several years before my birth. Perhaps this is why I was so determined to learn the language.
To clarify,
• I am Australian
• I was born in Australia and never in my life have I lived in or been to Russia or Eastern Europe.
• I come from an English-speaking family.
• My grandfather was of Eastern European descent, but I never met him!
• My name is Natasha by divine coincidence.
• My face is Slavic because my roots are European!
• I learnt this language from scratch!
Thank you to my teacher Oxana, she was extremely helpful and I am grateful to have met her. If you live in Sydney and would like one-on-one lessons, Oxana is an experienced teacher and I will happily provide you with her details.
0:00 Who am I?
2:27 My first lesson
4:23 Creating a Russian environment
5:39 Finding a teacher
6:36 Grammar
7:45 Challenging aspects of the language
9:04 Learning method and motivation loss
10:47 Calligraphy/handwriting
11:28 Conversation exchange
12:34 A final note
Resources
The video that started my journey... thank you, Daria.
• Russian lessons – Lesson 1 – Tips, go...
The most wonderful lesson on verbs of motion. Max also has a podcast for comprehensible Russian - I listen to his podcasts also! Thank you, Max.
• Russian Verbs of Motion With Prefixes...
This video taught me how to write in cursive, thank you!
• Video
Website for conversation exchange:
www.conversationexchange.com
Website for online teachers:
www.italki.com
https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/107... - Thank you Anton for your help and guidance.
My first video about this very topic, spoken in Russian:
• Как австралийка учит русский язык - A...
