Ask HN: Foreign language learners, what's the workflow you find most effective?

Post by arcticadder » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 9:33 AM UTC

Asraelite wrote: post #21

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Unfortunately I cannot make real recommendations for Russian learning for non-native speakers, as for me it is simply the native language and stuff just magically makes sense. I quickly looked over the book you listed, it looks to me to be a million times better than whatever you would get out of Duolingo. It is actually the perfect way to do grammar imo, you get grammar lessons along with small injections of vocabul…

Just a question for everyone not recommending Duolingo: are you aware of the grammar notes that only exist on desktop? A lot of people miss them.

Post by animesh » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 9:59 AM UTC

amaccuish wrote: post #20

animesh wrote: post #13

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I am about 510 words of Russian in my 2rd attempt and I am finding it frustrating to not know why and when to use мамы маму etc even after completing nearly two checkpoints. I decided to skip Duolingo in my third attempt. I found that the New Penguin Russian Course book for grammar is a good start. Could you please be kind and suggest if this is a good learning path? Many thanks.

I learnt Russian at uni and our course book was the New Penguin course. I found the order of things being taught weird but otherwise an excellent book. I had however learned German and French well, so was already linguistically oriented. Things like cases just make sense to me. I'm not sure how good the book is if you're not that way inclined. I can only tell you, if you don't deeply understand what cases do, when th…