Saturday, December 22, 2012

Tip of the week: Record yourself speaking Russian

  If you want to speak Russian, you'll have to actually do a lot of speaking. No matter how much you read in Russian or listen to Russian radio, you won't learn to speak the language fluently if you never open your mouth.

But don't stop there. Speak – and record yourself! You can easily make videos for YouTube and get useful feedback and encouragement there. Other reasons for recording yourself?

“-Forcing yourself to output something and getting used to pronouncing the words
-Burning the words of your video into your memory forever, since you’ll know them really well thanks to the preparation, especially as I describe it below
-Giving yourself a project to work towards with a deadline, forcing you to improve by that time”
-Benny Lewis.

(Read more here.)

To inspire you to give it a try, here are a few videos from people who, just like you, are learning Russian.

chahailus



WILLTHEWGMAN



AnnieTheLemon



laoshu505000
Russianlearner17



MissApolaustic

6 comments:

  1. I liked how you said: "No matter how much you read in Russian or listen to Russian radio, you won't learn to speak the language fluently if you never open your mouth." - that is so true, cause is the same with english...

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    1. Yeah, there is no way you're gonna learn speaking without actually speaking. Just like swimming - only in the water :)

      Happy holidays!

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  2. Omg!!! I didn't listen yesterday videos, all these people are amazing how they are speaking in russian. I am half russian and love russian, also I know a little bit of bulgarian and would like to start to learn spanish.
    All your these videos gave me inspiration to start learn spanish soon!
    thank you very much!
    Liuba

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    1. That's great! I hope to inspire as many people as possible to learn new languages :) Good luck!

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  3. Wow hey, that was my video! haha Sorry I deleted whichever one you had posted... But thanks

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