How well do you learn a lesson? For example a 6 minute lesson, do you keep at it until you can listen all the way through at normal speed (or more than normal speed)? Or just keep moving on once you have it mostly down?
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Move on once I have it mostly down…or I get bored with it.
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just one time, then I move on. I get too bored to do anything more than once.
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Just once and visit it later in the future
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I read it once only and move on. I never read anything more than once. Listening is a different matter. I might listen between 0 and 20 times depending on my schedule and how much I like the audio.
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Steve, In a youtube video (I think it was his about his approach to learning Russian), said that in the beginning stages, he listened to each lesson of “Who is she?” 30, 40, 50 times.
I’m not sure how his approach would change now that there is so much more beginner material in the library.
For the mini stories I do them a couple of times and listen to them when I feel like it. Over a six month period probably I read the mini-stories 2-3 times and listen to the audio maybe 5-6 times.
For everything else I read them a single time and most likely don’t listen to the audio at all. That said, I watch a ton of youtube (at least an hour a day) so I’m getting audio input from there.
I think the mini-stories are super helpful though TBH - they essentially bake in the grammar without having to learn the grammar.
I tried once listening to the Russian Who is She about 150 times. The result was that I ended up hating the sound of it. That is probably too much, but 50 times is maybe ok.
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Steve did say that he listens around 20 times, but not 20 times in a row! It seems reasonable to listen a few times, then move on. As with practising a musical instrument, you can’t stay on one piece until you perfect it, you need to move on. You will encounter the same technical and musical issues in another piece, as you will encounter the same words and phrases in other texts. And in fact, in both cases, encountering something you need to work on, in a different context, will dramatically increase your learning and enjoyment. So, my advice–keep moving forward, occasionally review (if interested).
Steve did say that he listens around 20 times, but not 20 times in a row! It seems reasonable to listen a few times, then move on. As with practising a musical instrument, you can’t stay on one piece until you perfect it, you need to move on. You will encounter the same technical and musical issues in another piece, as you will encounter the same words and phrases in other texts. And in fact, in both cases, encountering something you need to work on, in a different context, will dramatically increase your learning and enjoyment. So, my advice–keep moving forward, occasionally review (if interested).
I try to learn as much as possible until I can fully understand the lesson. I usually only deal with two to three minute lessons, so it’s a relatively easy task, but I’m currently working through the Mido lessons, which are over seven minutes long and I’ll only usually comprehend 50%-70% from the get-go so I’m listening, reading and repeating over and over and I’ll typically move onto the next lesson while whatever I’ve learned from the previous incubates. I like to master what I’ve learned before moving on, however Steve’s method is to just keep moving and gradually pick up the language and not be so caught up in individual lessons. Do whatever works best for you, but I’m a person that likes to really drill vocabulary lists, whereas Steve would typically do the opposite and just focus on listening.
“Who is she” scared me LOL.