How to work with videos to progress faster - my recommendations FOR INPUT LEARNERS:
👀 WATCH
Watch a video without subtitles
🔄 REWATCH
Rewatch the same video without subtitles several times every other day or two (but stop when you start getting bored with it! This is important)
*If you feel like mimicking certain sounds or words, go ahead. But my advise - on early stages do it only if it feels natural, usually when some sound or word sounds familiar, funny, strange, remarkable - in other words "calls for a respond" from you.
When you're about A1-B1 level of oral comprehension (really depends on your ear) you can start practicing "shadowing" - repeating out loud the whole phrases as the video/audio plays.
👂 LISTEN
When you remember the visual content of the video so well that you can picture it in your head, just by audio, without looking at the screen - start listening the audio versions of the video on the go/in the background throughout the day in your earphones or speakers. Relisten to the audios as many times as possible without getting sick of it.
📑 FOLLOW THE TEXT
(Recommended at about A2 level of oral comrehension) If you have reading in Russian as a goal, turn on Russian subtitles (but not Russian auto-generated) or use transcriptions, and follow the text with your eyes while listening to the audio/video.
✍WRITE A DICTATION
(Recommended at higher stages about B1-B2 level of comprehension) Write a dictation playing the video and pausing for writing down the text. Use the subtitles or transcriptions for a self-check.
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📄TRANSCRIPTIONS 🎧AUDIOS 📺PREMIUM VIDEOS ☕︎👨🏻💻Monthly Group calls https://go.comprehensiblerussian.com/c4wt5g
📄TRANSCRIPTIONS help you:
- develop your reading and writing skills 📖✍
- solidate your knowledge of what you've acquired from the video 🧱💪
- DOC: easily adjustable to a mobile screen (unlike PDF)
- Editable for marking the text and making notes
- Printable and easy for making notes between the lines on paper if you like hand-learning
I recommend using the transcriptions for:
- following the text while listening to video/audio
- extensive reading
- intensive reading
- checking your dictation
⭐📺🚀PREMIUM VIDEOS
If you want to progress faster you need lots of quality comprehenible input every day.
Watch stuff from me that's a little too edgy for YouTube: personal stories, video diary, extended interviews and more.
🎧AUDIOS mp3 help you increase your listening immersion by 3-10 times 🚀
Recommendations:
- Play them on the go/in the background throughout the day
- Use an app with audio speed control, a repeat mode and playlists features
- (For beginners) Listen to audios only after you've watched the video so that you can associate the speech in the audio with illustrations you remember from the video
☕︎👨🏻💻 Monthly Group calls
Q&A, discuss input learning, share progress, get support (in English)
Friendly talks (in Russian)
📄TRANSCRIPTIONS 🎧AUDIOS 📺PREMIUM VIDEOS ☕︎👨🏻💻Monthly Group calls https://go.comprehensiblerussian.com/c4wt5g
🗪 Private lessons with Inna https://go.comprehensiblerussian.com/xivJdi
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