Attenius Language Learning

Hi! I’m Attenius, a native English speaker from the US learning Russian. I switched to immersion methods around early in July 2020. I'm roughly following the plans and advice given at https://refold.la . If you're not familiar with me or Refold, you might want to check out my earlier updates , although I didn't make any effort to be brief on this one, and I've copied my summary of the Refold methodology below: Refold About a month into my pandemic studies, I kept seeing Matt vs. Japan in my YouTube recommendations while watching Russian With Max's videos. “Who’s this self-important weeb who thinks he knows so much about language learning?” was a frequent thought I had. After watching a few of his videos, I found that a lot of his points made sense, and I began to follow Refold , a guide to learning languages through consuming media which Matt co-created. You can read more on the Refold website at https://refold.la , but two core assumptions of the methodo...

Here I'm listing some of my favorite YouTube channels and other resources, just so they're all in one place. As I find more stuff I like, I'll add it here.  I don't get any compensation from any of these recommendations. Resources Attenius's Immersion Tracker Template -  cleaned up version of my immersion time/reading tracking sheet on Google Sheets which I've used to great success for 18 months. RuTracker -  so much content there that it's motivation to learn Russian on its own. Some non-pirated content is also only available there, such as some fan-made audiobooks I've listened to. Refold - a free guide on how to get actually good at a foreign language. The Patreon linked there is just for a couple of vocab decks and Matt's Q&As, you absolutely do not need to subscribe to it. The guide and Discord communities are free, and anyone that wants to get fluent should find them very useful. Anki - it's intimidating and not that fun, but ...

  Hi! I’m Attenius, a native English speaker from the US learning Russian. I switched to immersion methods around early in July 2020. I'm roughly following the plans and advice given at https://refold.la . If you're not familiar with me or Refold, you might want to check out my earlier updates . I'm trying to keep this one brief. Numbers Here are my summary stats for January through September. I had a bug in my sheet so the numbers might look slightly different from my last post. Not shown: shadowing and writing, which I've only done a few hours of. Sum/Mean, in hours except for total time spent in Anki and cards made . The "Total" at the bottom is Reading + Listening + 0.33 * Passive + Anki + 0.75 * Cards [with the actual input numbers in minutes]. Events No massive jumps in ability, in fact I feel my gaps more and more. Anime dubs and streams feel a bit easier, the news and movies seem still just as hard. Over the course of watching many many hours...