For fuck sake i keep just bouncing around programs for Russian, Memrise and Duolingo being the main ones. I can't learn shit, i have the Penguin Russian Course book and i am trying to read it and honestly understand 1/4 of what the book is telling me and not a 1/4 of the Russian but a 1/4 of the concepts in general that it tries to explain. Most just go over my head and it is hard for a brainlet like myself to even get it fully without a bunch of bing bong wahoo sound visuals and good boy points adding up because it is just a book and i have read probably 6 of those in my life. I am 400 learned words into the memrise course right now and i can't remember the vast majority of them and it seems futile. Why can some people just have a dictionary and a few youtube videos and learn a language, am i just low IQ or something.
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>Why can some people just have a dictionary and a few youtube videos and learn a language
They can't, don't know where you got that from.
>am i just low IQ or something
Yeah, probably.
Don't get discouraged user, Russian is a hard language to learn. Maybe it'd be easier for you if you get a private tutor or something. see Italki
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Yeah, and one of the reasons is that I can understand it less than Italian despite it supposedly being made to facilitate communication.
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I'm likewise learning Russian. I have Penguin, but I haven't used it much. I tried Pimsleur and learned absolutely nothing. Duolingo has been surprisingly useful to me. Make sure to review old lessons consistently, and it should stick better. Whenever I learn a language, I find it helpful to try to say sentences I think about throughout the day, and I look it up on my phone if I don't know a word. For example, I was thinking about how hot it is today, so I thought about how to say this in Russian and texted a Russian "Здecь ceйчac 32C." I try to send texts to native speakers and request corrections.
Is there anything in particular you're struggling with the most?
Pimsleur is not for learning vocabulary, it's for practising conversational skills.
>Easy
"Faith does not make things easy, it makes them possible."
>Medium
""I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."
>Hard
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, through prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, and present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
I'm aware, but I was hoping to learn basic conversational phrases with it. I learned plenty of basic phrases using it for Portuguese and improved my pronunciation tremendously, I was hoping to get the same for Russian.